Project Grant R305A230402

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,039 to the University of Colorado to conduct a longitudinal study on the emotional adjustment and psychological health of diverse emerging adult students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to use remote-based surveys and experience-sampling methods to examine how social isolation, emotion regulation...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $4,399,997 Project Grant to Educational Testing Service (ETS) under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411) to develop technology-enhanced collaborative learning approaches to improve middle-grade students' social-emotional learning skills. The 4-year project, commencing on January 1, 2024 and ending on December 31, 2027, aims to create and evaluate innovative instructional methods...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $523,074.45 Project Grant to Yale University on August 1, 2024 to conduct a "Living Systematic Review of Universal School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Programs in the United States" under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination (CFDA 84.305) federal grant program. The grant will fund Yale University's work to develop the infrastructure, data processing applications, and user-facing...

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 federal Project Grant award, valued at $920,882 and awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324), will fund an evaluation of the K-5 Second Step social-emotional learning program and bully prevention unit. The study will assess the impact of these programs on youth violence and school climate among students with and at-risk for disability identification. The University of Missouri System...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings provides $200,000 to support continued data collection and analysis through the Understanding America Study (UAS). The funding supports targeted administration of survey questions to parents regarding K-12 students' learning experiences and engagement in STEM subjects during the 2022 spring/summer and the 2022-23 school year. Analysis will track impacts along key demographic...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded $363,998 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California Irvine on July 15, 2021. The Project Grant supports the University of California Irvine in conducting a nationally representative survey titled "Responding to Turbulent Times: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath in a Probability-Based US National Sample." Under the award, the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, titled "Coping with Compounding Risk and Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study of Cascading Collective Stress in a Probability-Based-US Sample," is being awarded to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for $1,018,693.00. The project commenced on June 15, 2023 and will run until May 31, 2026. The primary objectives of this study are to: (1) examine how exposure to compounding...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $234,000.00 to the Oregon Social Learning Center, Inc. to pilot test the Strengthening Social-Emotional Skills for Relating and Thriving at School (SSTRS) program. The goal of the SSTRS program is to prevent the development of mental health problems in youth by improving social-emotional skills in kindergarten students, particularly those...