Project Grant R305A240101

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas at Austin received a $391,260.02 Project Grant award from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305), with an award date of November 12, 2025 and ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026. The research initiative, titled "The Effects of Completing College-Level Courses in High School on Postsecondary Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," is...

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), supports a meta-analysis of prior research on personalized adaptive learning (PAL) in undergraduate mathematics courses. The University of Central Florida will conduct a comprehensive literature review and synthesize findings across single studies using quantitative statistics to compute an...

This $389,897 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a three-year meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of writing instruction in secondary math and science classes. The project aims to: a) determine the overall impact of writing instruction on students' math/science achievement, math/science-specific writing, and general writing composition; b) identify factors that influence the effectiveness of writing instruction in...

This $640,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a 9-month training institute to improve the methodological skills of STEM education researchers for conducting modern meta-analyses. The institute will provide online pre-workshop activities, a 5-day in-person intensive workshop, and post-workshop support to enable participants to develop meta-analysis research projects that explore the effectiveness of STEM education...

Texas State University received a $478,385 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program. The grant will fund a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis to examine published and unpublished studies on psychosocial interventions targeting postsecondary students' mathematics attainment. Specifically, the university will collect and assess evidence on such interventions in college...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, titled "Promoting the Self-Regulated Use of Effective Learning Strategies in Gateway Undergraduate STEM Courses", provides $138,000 to support research investigating the effectiveness of a multi-component strategy training intervention on student learning and achievement in undergraduate chemistry and biology courses. The grant sponsors two large-scale experiments at Texas...

This $297,118 National Science Foundation project grant under the Institutional and Community Transformation track of the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education program will support the Mathematics Equity through Teaching Actively (META) project. META aims to transform undergraduate mathematics instruction at California State University Fullerton to be more equity-minded and actively engaged through implementation of a robust professional development program for faculty. The program will train...

This federal Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), will fund a $412,000 research project to study the long-term effects of a comprehensive support program for community college students from low-income backgrounds. The project will track outcomes such as community college graduation, transfer to four-year colleges, bachelor's degree attainment, employment, wages, and contact with the criminal...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a study conducted by the RAND Corporation on the use of the Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS) adaptive learning technology in first-year algebra and statistics corequisite courses. The research will focus on how ALEKS is being implemented across different institutions, the factors influencing its use by students and instructors, and the relationship...

This $234,004 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and development activities aimed at improving STEM education outcomes for underrepresented groups. Specifically, the grant funds a collaborative project between four North Carolina universities to investigate strategies for increasing the success, confidence, and sense of belonging of 1,900 African American men in entry-level mathematics courses. The project will evaluate the impact of improved placement procedures...