Project Grant R305J250035
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $11,044,193 Project Grant on January 1, 2026 by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program (CFDA 84.411). The grant supports the creation, development, implementation, replication, and scaling of evidence-based, field-initiated educational innovations designed to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students across a 5-year project period...
- The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). This award, with a performance period from September 30, 2025 to September 29, 2026, will support the development and evaluation of the "CHAT2LEARN SUITE" - an innovative educational technology and methodology focused on improving learning outcomes across various...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program. The award, titled "EAGER: MULTI-HOP REASONING WITH LLMS: A STRUCTURE-GUIDED REASONING APPROACH," aims to develop a retrieving-structuring-reasoning framework to enable complex reasoning and avoid hallucinations in domain-focused problem-solving using large language models (LLMs). The project will...
- The University of Illinois has been awarded a $356,091 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program. The grant, awarded on August 15, 2025, will fund a research project titled "CAREER: SEARCH AS A MECHANISM FOR LEARNING" that aims to advance the understanding of self-regulated learning as mediated by information search behavior and information retrieval (IR) systems. The project will collaborate with the Osher...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $4,777,356 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Program (CFDA 84.411) for their "Learning to Lead in Math" project. The project aims to create, develop, implement, replicate, and scale evidence-based innovations designed to improve student achievement and attainment for high-need students in mathematics. WestEd, a nonprofit research...
- This $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of a novel AI-powered student support system to improve metacognitive calibration skills at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025. The project aims to research methods for enhancing students' ability to accurately estimate their own level of knowledge using short, personalized training exercises delivered through a decentralized AI framework....
- This $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of an AI-based learning support system to provide personalized educational content for large-scale university courses in sustainability science. The key components of the project include: Designing and evaluating a system to interview students about their backgrounds and transform this data into a knowledge graph representation to inform...
- This federal Project Grant award of $189,673.56 from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) within the U.S. Department of Education is for the "Research in Special Education" program (CFDA 84.324). The award supports scientifically rigorous research aimed at improving educational outcomes for children with disabilities. The research to be conducted by the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois will contribute to solving early intervention and education challenges associated with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) totaling $399,724 will support the University of Massachusetts Lowell in developing AI-driven educational technology tools to enhance undergraduate computer science education. The project aims to explore how large language models (LLMs) can be customized to enable personalized, interactive, and reflective learning experiences for STEM students. The project will generate knowledge on using LLMs to...
- The University of Illinois was awarded a $526,006 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Explanatory Captions and AI" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year project aims to develop and evaluate the use of explanatory captions and artificial...
The University of Illinois received a $493,400 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) on September 30, 2025. The grant, titled "SKILLTREE: Scalable Personalized Learning with LLM-Linked Custom Knowledge Graphs," will support research activities to develop and evaluate an educational technology system that utilizes large language models and personalized knowledge graphs to enhance personalized learning experiences. The project aims to advance the state of knowledge in using generative AI techniques to improve educational outcomes and address critical challenges in learning and teaching across various education levels. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 29, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $493.4k | 9/24/25 |