The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $573,006 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) to conduct an efficacy evaluation of the "Talking About Local Current and Contested Issues in Schools" (TALCCS) program. The project, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025, will evaluate the impact of the TALCCS program, which aims to improve educational outcomes by...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,999,680 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop an "Intelligent, Adaptive Program with Just-in-Time Feedback for Preservice Teachers." This program aims to improve preservice teachers' evidence-based teaching practices, mathematical content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching skills related to ratios and proportional relationships...
This $208,420 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to the Georgia State University Research Foundation. The award supports a 4-year research project to understand the challenges that low-skilled adults in the U.S. face when engaging with digital assessments for adaptive problem-solving skills. The project involves developing and piloting think-aloud...
The Project Grant award of $1,803,836.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant, titled "GENAI EMPOWERED NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR UPHOLDING STEM+C EDUCATION (GENIUS)", aims to improve educational outcomes and increase student achievement in STEM+C (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science) fields. The award was made...
The University of Southern California was awarded a three-year, $1,042,809 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop early childhood STEM education resources. The university will create a play-based computer science and pre-engineering education program for pre-K children, an online early childhood teacher professional development program, and accompanying child and teacher assessments. A randomized controlled trial will test the...
This federal Project Grant award of $524,927 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) supports a component network meta-analysis of interventions for students struggling with mathematics in grades K-6. The awardee, R G Research Group, Inc. (doing business as Instructional Research Group), is a for-profit educational research institute that specializes in program evaluation and...
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $310,958 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on August 1, 2024. This grant supports statistical innovations for balancing weight methods in education research, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025. The grant involves sub-awards to two prestigious research universities, The Regents of...
The U.S. Department of Education, through its Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411), awarded a $7,417,784 Project Grant to the Board of Control for Southern Regional Education (SREB), a non-profit organization in Atlanta, Georgia. The grant, titled "HOPE: A Professional Development Model to Enhance Math Teacher Effectiveness," aims to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovative professional development program to improve the effectiveness of math teachers,...
This $733,692.00 federal Project Grant award was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant supports comprehensive research activities designed to improve educational outcomes across all learning stages. The primary awardee, Carnegie Mellon University, will conduct research and development efforts focused on areas such as artificial intelligence in education,...
This federal Project Grant award of $421,575.00 was provided by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant funding will be used by the University of California Irvine to harness artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to train mindsets for mathematical higher order thinking skills. The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative educational interventions...