Project Grant R324A210074

This $2,083,321 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination program supports the "THE USING GENERATIVE AI FOR READING R & D CENTER" research initiative. The primary awardee, Digital Promise Global, will lead the center's work, which includes: Amira Learning, Inc. leading the platform team to develop AI-enabled reading assessment and instructional...

This Project Grant award of $355,293 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Research in Special Education program (CFDA 84.324) will support the development and evaluation of a narrative language and reading comprehension intervention called "Guided, Explicit Teaching of Oral Narratives to Improve Narrative Text Comprehension (GET ON IT!)" for emergent bilingual students with or at risk for reading disabilities in grades 2-4. The project,...

The University of Tennessee received a $347,686 project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) to conduct a meta-analysis on the benefits and losses of summer reading programs for students in grades K-5. The project, with a period of performance from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, will involve literature searching, screening, coding, and statistical analysis led by researchers at the...

This Project Grant award of $1,220,412 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a study to identify predictors of intervention outcomes in students with reading disabilities. The University of Connecticut (UConn) will lead the research, which aims to: 1) establish trajectories and predictors of reading gains in students with reading disabilities at specialized...

This $451,398 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.324 - Research in Special Education) supports a study examining the efficacy of integrating anxiety management practices with reading intervention for students with reading disabilities. The research will be conducted by the University of Texas at Austin over a one-year period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to generate actionable insights that can enhance...

This Project Grant award of $662,034 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a research study to characterize the mechanisms associated with word reading difficulties, such as developmental dyslexia. The research team at The Leland Stanford Junior University will develop an open-source online platform called the Rapid Online Assessment of Reading (ROAR) to collect...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading system for students with reading disabilities. This SBIR Phase II project will produce a cloud-based system that students can use at home or school to improve their oral reading through personalized feedback, customizations by teachers, and audio capture capabilities. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $724,148 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will support a research study to evaluate the impact of implementing the First-Grade Reading Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS FG) program in kindergarten classrooms. The study, conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) in partnership with the University of Texas Rio...

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...

This Project Grant award of $1,272,902 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop reliable diagnostic protocols for identifying language and reading disorders among Spanish-English bilingual learners in kindergarten through 2nd grade. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop empirically-derived protocols to identify word reading difficulty (dyslexia) and...