Project Grant R305A220244

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $661,489 Project Grant on September 10, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study of RAP (Relax, Aware, Personal Rating) Club through June 30, 2030. The primary product is a randomized factorial experiment testing the delivery and implementation of RAP Club,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) provides $349,640 to the University of Illinois to conduct innovative research on how a student's location and school resources affect their long-term cognitive, non-cognitive, and life outcomes. The research leverages unique administrative data spanning over 20 years to examine the causal impacts of school quality measures, teacher/principal effectiveness, and...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) awarded Children's Research Institute $448,057 on October 1, 2025, under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) to conduct a longitudinal evaluation of promotive and protective factors for academic functioning in students with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) across the transition to middle school. This project, scheduled for completion by June 30, 2026, supports the IES mission to...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $470,351 to the University of Southern California (USC) to explore barriers and facilitators of school officials' participation in Child Death Review (CDR) meetings to address adolescent suicide mortality. The key objectives of this 2-year award are to: 1) explore facilitators and barriers to...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will provide $273,587 to develop model-based and design-based approaches to longitudinal causal decomposition analysis. Led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the project aims to identify modifiable risk factors contributing to social disparities. Methodological guidance, an R package, sample code, and video tutorials will be created to help researchers...

This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...

This $326,026 CAREER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) supports the development of methods and tools to enable researchers to unpack complex mediation mechanisms in multisite randomized trials of educational interventions. The project aims to (1) determine how the total impact of an intervention is mediated by one or multiple concurrent/sequential mediators, and (2) assess how the...

The Community Collective for Youth and Family Resilience and Violence Prevention (CCYFR) project will deliver evidence-based interventions and programs to help families impacted by violence in Boulder and Broomfield counties, Colorado. Funded by a $900,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Children Exposed to Violence program (CFDA 16.818), the University of Colorado will lead a...

The Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $1,381,350 project grant to The Urban Institute under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination federal grant program (CFDA 84.305) to conduct a lottery-based efficacy study of the District of Columbia Public Prekindergarten Program from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The Urban Institute will leverage random variation in pre-K enrollment generated through a deferred acceptance lottery method akin to a...

This $276,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program will support computational and developmental research into children's self-representations and learning decisions. Specifically, the awardee will build a quantitative computational model integrating children's self-observations and social feedback to explain self-concept development. This model will be tested against adult data and developmental findings. It will also be...