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In 2002, we began with three research grant competitions -- one focused
on reading instruction, one on preschool curricula, and one on student
learning from a cognitive science perspective. These competitions
resulted in a total of 24 research grants. Since that auspicious
beginning, the grant competitions sponsored by the National Center for
Education Research (NCER) have experienced tremendous growth. Since
2002, we have supported more than 265 education research grants that
range from the development of a board game designed to improve preschool
children\'s ability to estimate numerical magnitude -- a skill that
turns out to be related to arithmetic skill and conceptual understanding
of computational procedures -- to a large scale randomized field trial
to evaluate the effects of school choice on student achievement. In
addition to funding education research in reading, writing, mathematics,
and science; teacher quality; education leadership; education policy,
finance, and systems; high school reform; postsecondary education;
preschool curricula; early childhood programs and policies; social and
character development interventions; social and behavioral context for
academic learning; cognition and student learning; and education
technology, NCER currently supports 13 predoctoral and 17 postdoctoral
research training programs in the education sciences, and 13 Education
Research and Development Centers.

I am proud of the work that is being accomplished by NCER researchers.
This booklet is a compilation of the research grants and contracts and
the training grants that NCER has awarded since our first year. The
projects listed represent a new generation of education research --
research that is rigorous, relevant, and intended to improve the quality
of education in the United States.

Lynn Okagaki

Commissioner for Education Research

# CONTENTS 

Cognition and Student
Learning..........................................\...1

Early Childhood Programs and Policies.......................\...\...13

Education
Leadership........................................................14

Education Policy, Finance, and Systems...............................15

Education Technology ........................................\...\...18

Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers.......20

Mathematics and Science Education....................................21

Middle and High School
Reform...........................................29

National Research and Development Centers.........\............31

Postdoctoral Research Training Program..............................33

Predoctoral Research Training Program................................36

Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research.....................\...\....38

Postsecondary Education
..................................................40

Reading and
Writing..........................................................42

Social and Behavioral Context for Learning
........................\....52

Social and Character Development 53

Teacher Quality: Mathematics and Science Education..............54

Teacher Quality: Reading and
Writing...................................58

Unsolicited and Other
Awards.............................................63

# COGNITION AND STUDENT LEARNING

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Principal Investigator:** Richard Anderson

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

Title: Mindful Instruction of Nonmainstream Children

-   **Name of Institution:** Kent State University

**Principal Investigator:** Katherine Rawson

**Co-Principal Investigator:** John Dunlosky

**Goal:** Development

Title: Developing the Retrieval-Monitoring-Feedback (RMF) Method for
Improving the Durability and Efficiency of Student Learning

-   **Name of Institution:** Teachers College, Columbia University

**Principal Investigator:** Deanna Kuhn

**Goal:** Development

Title: Extension of an Argument Curriculum to an Academically
Disadvantaged Middle-School Population

-   **Name of Institution:** Michigan State University

**Principal Investigator:** Kelly Mix

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Linda Smith (Indiana University)

**Goal:** Development

Title: Making Sense of Concrete Models for Mathematics

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** Laura Novick

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Kefyn Catley (Western Carolina
University)

**Goal:** Development

Title: A Cognitive Approach to Implementing Tree Thinking in High School
and College Biology Curricula

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

**Principal Investigator:** Sadhana Puntambekar

**Co-Principal Investigators:** N. Hari Narayanan (Auburn University),
Roland Hubscher (Bentley College), Nobel Sanjay Rebello (Kansas State
University)

**Goal:** Development

Title: Scaffolding Students\' Use of Multiple Representations for
Science Learning

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Lance Rips

**Goal:** Identification

Title: The Organization of Mathematical Knowledge

-   **Name of Institution:** Fordham University

**Principal Investigator:** William B. Whitten, II

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Mitchell Rabinowitz

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Guided Cognition for Unsupervised Learning of Mathematics*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas Health Science Center
    at Houston

**Principal Investigator:** Jason Anthony

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Carolyn Denton, Paul Swank

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Efficacy of Earobics Step 1 in English Language Learners and
Low SES Minority Children*

-   **Name of Institution:** Boston College

**Principal Investigator:** Michael Russell

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Jessica Masters (Boston College), Mark
Driscoll (Education Development Center), Rachel Wing (Education
Development Center)

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *The Diagnostic Geometry Assessment Project*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Siegler

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Geetha Ramani (University of Maryland)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Children\'s Numerical Understanding*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Boise State University

**Principal Investigator:** Keith Thiede

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Jonathan Brendefur, Jennifer Wiley,
Thomas Griffin (University of Illinois at Chicago)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Metacomprehension and Self-Regulated Learning From
Scientific Texts*

-   **Name of Institution:** George Mason University

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Pasnak

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Julie Kidd

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *An Economical Improvement in Literacy and Numeracy*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** David Mostow

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Albert Corbett, Mosur Ravishankar

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Explicit Comprehension Instruction in an Automated Reading
Tutor that Listens*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** Philip Pavlik

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Kenneth Koedinger

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Bridging the Bridge to Algebra: Measuring and Optimizing the
Influence of Prerequisite Skills on a Pre-Algebra Curriculum*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northern Illinois University

**Principal Investigator:** Keith Millis

**Co-Principal Investigators:** M. Anne Britt, Katja Weimer-Hastings,
Joseph Magliano, Art Graesser (University of Memphis), Diane Halpern
(Claremont McKenna College)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Acquiring Research Investigative and Evaluative Skills
(ARIES) for Scientific Inquiry*

-   **Name of Institution:** Ohio State University

**Principal Investigator:** Vladimir Sloutsky

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Kaminski

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *The Role of External Representations in Learning and
Transfer of Mathematical Knowledge*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, San Diego

**Principal Investigator:** Hal Pashler

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Doug Rohrer (University of South Florida)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Harnessing Retrieval Practice to Enhance Learning in Diverse
Domains*

-   **Name of Institution:** Boulder Language Technologies

**Principal Investigator:** Wayne Ward

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Ronald Cole, Sarel Van Vuuren, Barbara
Wise (University of Colorado at Boulder)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Science Learning Through Tutorial Dialogs*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Principal Investigator:** Brian Ross

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Jose Mestre, Timothy Nokes (University
of Pittsburgh)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Conceptual Analysis and Student Learning in Physics*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Notre Dame

**Principal Investigator:** Nicole McNeil

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Arithmetic Practice that Promotes Conceptual Understanding
and Computational Fluency*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Oregon

**Principal Investigator:** Helen Neville

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Training Attention in Preschool: Effects on Neurocognitive
Functions and School Performance*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** David Klahr

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Junlei Li (University of Pittsburgh)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Training in Experimental Design: Developing Scalable and
Adaptive Computer-Based Science Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** City University of New York

**Principal Investigator:** Barry Zimmerman

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Bert Flugman, John Hudesman

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Enhancing Self-Reflection and Mathematics Achievement of
At-Risk Students at an Urban Technical College: A Self-Regulated
Learning Intervention*

-   **Name of Institution:** Columbia University

**Principal Investigator:** Janet Metcalfe

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Lisa Son (Barnard College)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *The Effect of Metacognition on Children\'s Control of Their
Study and of Their Cognitive Processes*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

**Principal Investigator:** Philip Kellman

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Christine Massey (University of
Pennsylvania)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Integrating Conceptual Foundations in Mathematics Through
the Application of Principles of Perceptual Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Kentucky

**Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Lorch

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Teaching the Logic of the Scientific Method in the Fourth
Grade*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Washington

**Principal Investigator:** Deborah McCutchen

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Making Meaning: Morphological Processing and Its
Contribution to Adolescent and Pre-Adolescent Literacy*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

**Principal Investigator:** Martha Alibali

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Eric Knuth, Mitchell Nathan, R.
Breckinridge Church (Northeastern Illinois University)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Does Visual Scaffolding Facilitate Students' Mathematics
Learning? Evidence From Early Algebra*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** Gautam Biswas

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Kefyn Catley, Dan Schwartz (Stanford
University)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *A Learning by Teaching Approach to Help Students Develop
 Self-Regulatory Learning Skills in Middle School Science Classrooms*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

**Principal Investigator:** Stephen Hooper

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Nathan Vandergrift

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Attention, Memory, and Executive Functions in Written
Language Expression in Elementary School Children*

-   **Name of Institution:** Washington University in St. Louis

**Principal Investigator:** Henry Roediger, III

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Mark McDaniel, Kathleen McDermott,
Gordon Hodge (University of New Mexico)

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Test-Enhanced Learning in the Classroom*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Fordham University\
    **Principal Investigator:** William Whitten, II\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Mitchell Rabinowitz\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Guided Cognition of Unsupervised Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** Indiana University\
    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Goldstone

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Linda Smith\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Grounded and Transferable Knowledge of Complex Systems Using
Computer Simulations*

-   **Name of Institution:** Kent State University\
    **Principal Investigators:** John Dunlosky, Katherine Rawson\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Supporting Efficient and Durable Student Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** Harvard University\
    **Principal Investigator:** Jon Star\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Bethany Rittle-Johnson (Vanderbilt
    University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Using Contrasting Examples to Support Procedural
    Flexibility and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University\
    **Principal Investigator:** David Uttal\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Judy DeLoache (University of
    Virginia)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Understanding and Facilitating Symbolic Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** Ohio State University\
    **Principal Investigator:** Andrew Heckler\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Scientific Misconceptions: From Cognitive Underpinning
    to Educational Treatment*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Chicago

    **Principal Investigator:** Sian Beilock\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Improving the Assessment Capability of Standardized
    Tests:  How High-Stakes Testing Environments Compromise Performance*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Memphis

    **Principal Investigator:** Barry Gholson

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Arthur Graesser, Wali Abdi

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *An Implementation of Vicarious Learning With Deep-Level
Reasoning Questions in Middle School and High School Classrooms*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Southern California

**Principal Investigator:** Carole Beal

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Dynamically Modifying the Learning Trajectories of Novices
 With Pedagogical Agents*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Siegler

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Children\'s Pure Numerical Estimation*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northern Illinois University

    **Principal Investigator:** M. Anne Britt

    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Christopher Wolfe (Miami University
    of Ohio), Peter Wiemer-Hastings (DePaul University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Creating a Usable Environment to Teach Argument
    Comprehension and Production Skills*

-   **Name of Institution:** Duke University

**Principal Investigator:** David Rabiner\
**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
**Title:** *A Randomized Trial of Two Promising Interventions for
Students With Attention Problems*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

**Principal Investigator:** Carol Connor\
**Co-Principal Investigator:** Fred Morrison (University of Michigan)

**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Child Instruction Interactions in Early Reading: Examining
Causal Effects of Individualized Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, San Diego

    **Principal Investigator:** Harold Pashler\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Optimizing Resistance to Forgetting*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

**Principal Investigator:** Brian Bottge\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Advancing the Math Skills of Low-Achieving Adolescents in
Technology-Rich Learning Environments*

-   **Name of Institution:** Boston College

    **Principal Investigator:** Michael Russell\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Joan Lucariello

**Goal:** Measurement\
**Title:** *Bridging the Gap: Applying Algebra Cognition Research to
Develop and Validate Diagnostic Classroom Algebra Testlets*

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** John Anderson\
    **Title:** *The Neural Markers of Effective Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** David Klahr\
    **Title:** *From Cognitive Models of Reasoning to Lesson Plans for
    Inquiry* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Columbia University

    **Principal Investigator:** Janet Metcalfe\
    **Title:** *Study Enhancement Based on Principles of Cognitive
    Science* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** George Mason University

    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Pasnak\
    **Title:** *Increasing Learning by Promoting Early Abstract Thought*
    (2003-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

    **Principal Investigator:** Keith Holyoak\
    **Title:** *A Multidisciplinary Study of Analogical Transfer in
    Children\'s Mathematical Learning* (2003-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Chicago

**Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Wiley\
**Co-Principal Investigator:** Keith Thiede\
**Title:** *Improving Monitoring Accuracy Improves Learning From Text*
(2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Maryland, College Park

    **Principal Investigator:** Thomas Wallsten\
    **Title:** *Computer-Assisted Instruction for Learning and Long-Term
    Retention Based on Recent Cognitive and Metacognitive Findings*
    (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

    **Principal Investigator:** Erik Reichle

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Jonathan Schooler (University of British
Columbia)

**Title:** *Lapses in Meta-Cognition During Reading: Understanding
Comprehension Failure* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

    **Principal Investigator:** Arthur Glenberg

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Joel Levin (University of Arizona)

**Title:** *Training Indexing to Enhance Meaning Extraction in Young
Readers* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Washington University in St. Louis

    **Principal Investigator:** Henry Roediger, III

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Kathleen McDermott, Mark McDaniel

**Title:** *Test-Enhanced Learning* (2003-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** Yale University

    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Sternberg

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Linda Jarvin

**Title:** *Understanding Students\' Mathematical Competencies: An
Exploration of the Impact of Contextualizing Mathematical Problems*
(2003-2007)

## FY 2002 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Siegler\
**Title:** *Using Cognitive Analyses to Improve Children\'s Math and
 Science Learning* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** Columbia University

    **Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Mangels

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Carol Dweck (Stanford University)

**Title:** *The Influence of Students\' Intelligence Beliefs on
Attention, Information Processing, and Learning: A Neurophysiological
Analysis* (2002-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Northern Illinois University

    **Principal Investigator:** M. Anne Britt\
    **Title:** *Improving Students\' Comprehension and Construction of
    Arguments* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

    **Principal Investigator:** David Uttal

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Judy DeLoache (University of Virginia)

**Title:** *Learning From Symbolic Objects* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Bjork

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Marcia Linn (University of California,
Berkeley)

**Title:** *Introducing Desirable Difficulties for Educational
Applications in Science* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Riverside

    **Principal Investigator:** H. Lee Swanson\
    **Title:** *Age-Related Changes in Word Problem Solving and Working
    Memory* (2002-2005)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, San Diego

    **Principal Investigator:** Harold Pashler\
    **Title:** *Optimizing Resistance to Forgetting* (2002-2005)

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# EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND POLICIES

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Ohio State University

**Principal Investigator:** Laura Justice

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Efficacy of Read It Again! in Rural Preschool Settings*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

**Principal Investigator:** Beth Phillips

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Using Educational Television to Enhance Young Children's
Language and Vocabulary Skills*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

**Principal Investigator:** Cynthia Puranik

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Test of Emergent Writing Skills*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California

**Principal Investigator:** Prentice Starkey

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Closing the SES Related Gap in Young Children\'s
Mathematical Knowledge*

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Buffalo, The State University
    of New York

**Principal Investigator:** Doug Clements

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Julia Sarama

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Increasing the Efficacy of an Early Mathematics Curriculum
with Scaffolding Designed to Promote Self-Regulation*

# 

# EDUCATION LEADERSHIP

# 

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Michigan

**Principal Investigator:** Roger Goddard

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *A Randomized Controlled Trial to Assess the Efficacy of the
Balanced Leadership Program*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pennsylvania

**Principal Investigator:** Andrew Porter

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *The Development and Validation of the Vanderbilt Assessment
of Leadership in Education*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** Leonard Bickman

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Principal Leadership Through Feedback and
Coaching*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

    **Principal Investigator:** Anthony Milanowski\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Steven Kimball, Herbert Heneman, III

**Goal:** Identification\
**Title:** *Study of Innovative School Leadership Performance Evaluation
Systems*

-   **Name of Institution:** School Leadership Center of Greater New
    Orleans

    **Principal Investigator:** Brian Riedlinger

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Scott Bauer (George Mason
University), Betty Porter, Jeffrey Oescher (University of 

Southeastern Louisiana)\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *The Coaching Model: A Collaborative Pilot Program*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** MDRC

    **Principal Investigator:** Janet Quint

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Jason Snipes\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Learning From Efforts to Strengthen Educational Leadership
in Urban School Districts* (2004-2008)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pennsylvania

    **Principal Investigator:** Jonathan Supovitz

**Co-Principal Investigators:** James Spillane (Northwestern
University), Carol Barnes (University of Michigan), Eric Camburn
(University of Michigan), Ellen Goldring (Vanderbilt University)

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
**Title:** *Assessing the Impact of Principals\' Professional
Development: An Evaluation of the National Institute for School
Leadership*

# EDUCATION POLICY, FINANCE, AND SYSTEMS

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution**: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and
    Secondary Education

**Principal Investigator:** Carrie Conaway

**Goal**: Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time: Implementation and
Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution**: University of Pennsylvania

**Principal Investigator:** Elliot Weinbaum

**Goal**: Identification

**Title:** *School Responses to AYP Classification Due to Student
Subgroups and the Relationship to Student Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution**: University of Pennsylvania

**Principal Investigator:** John Fantuzzo

**Goal**: Identification

**Title:** *Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS): An Evidence-based System
for Enhancing Educational Proficiency and Social Adjustment*

-   **Name of Institution**: National Bureau of Economic Research

**Principal Investigator:** Susan Dynarsky

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Jonathan Gruber (Massachusetts Institute
of Technology)

**Goal**: Identification

**Title:** *Catholic School Prices, Private School Attendance, and
Student Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Meyer

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Allan Odden

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Creating an Integrated Resource Information System to Assess
Student, Teacher, Classroom, and School Effects on Value-Added Student
Learning Gains and to Support More Cost-Effective Budgeting*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** Dennis Epple\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Determinants of Student Outcomes in an Urban School
    District: Educational Interventions and Family Choices*

-   **Name of Institution:** Stanford University

    **Principal Investigator:** Sean Reardon\
    **Goal:** Identification\
    **Title:** *The Effects of Racial School Segregation on the
    Black-White Achievement Gap*

-   **Name of Institution:** Western Michigan University

    **Principal Investigator:** Gary Miron\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Evaluation of the Kalamazoo Promise*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Albany, State University of
    New York

    **Principal Investigator:** James Wyckoff

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Hamilton Lankford, Donald Boyd, Susanna
Loeb (Stanford University), Pamela Grossman (Stanford University)\
**Goal:** Identification\
**Title:** *Do Reduced Barriers to Entry Affect Student Achievement and
Teacher Retention?: The Case of New York City Math Immersion*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** National Bureau of Economic Research

    **Principal Investigator:** Patrick Bayer

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Fernando Ferreira, Robert McMillan\
**Goal:** Identification\
**Title:** *The Unintended Consequences of a Major Education Policy
Reform: California\'s Class Size Reduction, Student Achievement,    and
the "Social Multiplier"* (2005-2008)

-   **Name of Institution:** National Bureau of Economic Research

    **Principal Investigator:** Thomas Kane\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Justine Hastings, Douglas Staiger

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
**Title:** *Implementing Public School Choice in Charlotte, NC: Impacts
on Student Outcomes, Competitiveness, and Racial Segregation*

-   **Name of Institution:** The Pennsylvania State University

    **Principal Investigator:** William Hartman\
    **Goal:** Measurement

    **Title:** *Cost Accounting for Student-Level Resources*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

    **Principal Investigator:** Leanna Stiefel

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Amy Ellen Schwartz\
**Goal:** Identification\
**Title:** *How Should We Organize Primary Schooling? Grade Span, School
Size, and Student Academic Achievement* (2004--2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Principal Investigator:** Ellen Goldring

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Dale Ballou\
**Goal:** Identification\
**Title:** *Public School Choice: Magnet Schools, Peer Effects, and 
Student Achievement* (2004--2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Empirical Education Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Denis Newman\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Low Cost Experiments to Support Local School District
    Decisions*

# EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Connecticut

**Principal Investigator:** Scott Brown

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Expanding the Science and Literacy Curricular Space: The
GlobalEd II Project*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Memphis

**Principal Investigator:** Danielle McNamara

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *The Writing Pal: An Intelligent Tutoring System that
Provides Interactive Writing Strategy Training*

-   **Name of Institution:** Harvard University

**Principal Investigator:** Christopher Dede

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Advancing Ecosystems Science Education via Situated
Collaborative Learning in Multi-User Virtual Environments*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Edys Quellmalz

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *SimScientists: Interactive Simulation-based Science Learning
Environments*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Memphis

**Principal Investigator:** Andrew Olney

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Guru: A Computer Tutor that Models Expert Human Tutors*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** David Mostow

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Accelerating Fluency Development in an Automated Reading
Tutor*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Santa Cruz

**Principal Investigator:** Judith Scott

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Explicit Scaffolding for Word Learning in Context through
Multimedia Word Annotation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Massachusetts Amherst

**Principal Investigator:** Beverly Woolf

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Teaching Every Student: Using Intelligent Tutoring and
Universal Design to Customize the Mathematics Curriculum*

-   **Name of Institution:** Harvard University

**Principal Investigator:** Christopher Dede

**Goal**: Measurement

**Title:** *Studying the Potential of Virtual Performance Assessments
for Measuring Student Achievement in Science*

# INTERVENTIONS FOR STRUGGLING ADOLESCENT AND ADULT READERS AND WRITERS

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Harvard University

**Principal Investigator:** Nonie Lesaux

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Increasing Opportunities-To-Learn in Urban Middle Schools*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas at Austin

**Principal Investigator:** Sharon Vaughn

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) Interventions for
Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers and Writers*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** California State University, Long Beach

**Principal Investigator:** Claude Goldenberg

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Content-Rich Vocabulary Development to Improve Reading
Achievement of Struggling Adolescent Readers*

-   **Name of Institution:** Success for All Foundation

**Principal Investigator:** Nancy Madden

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *The Reading Edge: Development and Evaluation of a High
School Cooperative Learning Reading Intervention Program*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Kansas

**Principal Investigator:** Daryl Mellard

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Improving Adults' Reading Outcomes with Strategic Tutoring
and Content Enhancement Routines*

# MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

**Principal Investigator:** Janet Carlson

**Goal:** Development

**Title**: *BSCS Science: An Inquiry Approach\--Development of a
Conceptually Coherent, Multidisciplinary Science Program for Grade
Eight*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Principal Investigator:** Arthur Baroody

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Fostering Fluency with Basic Addition & Subtraction*

-   **Name of Institution:** Stanford University

**Principal Investigator:** Patrick Suppes

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Closing the Achievement Gap in Middle School Mathematics
Utilizing Stanford University\'s Education Program for Gifted Youth
Differentiated Mathematics Program*

-   **Name of Institution:** Pepperdine University

**Principal Investigator:** Eric Hamilton

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Agent and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas (ALASKA)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

**Principal Investigator:** Sarah Lubienski

**Goal:** Identification

**Title**: *A Longitudinal Study of Gender and Mathematics Using ECLS-K
Data*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** Vincent Aleven

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Bringing Cognitive Tutors to the Internet: A Website that
Helps Middle-School Students Learn Math*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Steven Schneider

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Edward Britton, Benny Johnson (Quantum
Simulations)

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *A Randomized Controlled Study of the Effects of Intelligent
Online Chemistry Tutors in Urban California School Districts*

-   **Name of Institution:** Pacific Institutes for Research

**Principal Investigator:** Scott Baker

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Early Learning in Mathematics: Efficacy in Kindergarten
Classrooms*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Edys Quellmalz

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Michael Timms

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Multilevel Assessments of Science Standards (MASS**)***

## FY 2007 AWARDS 

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Balfanz

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Ruth Neild

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Successful Transitions to Algebra 1: A Randomized Control
Trial of Two Theories of Ninth Grade Algebra Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** Quantum Simulations, Inc.

**Principal Investigator:** Benny Johnson\
**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Integrated Software for Artificial Intelligence Tutoring and
Assessment in Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** RAND Corporation

**Principal Investigator:** John Pane\
**Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations

**Title:** *Effectiveness of Cognitive Tutor Algebra One Implemented at
Scale*

-   **Name of Institution:** Teachers College, Columbia University

**Principal Investigator:** Herbert Ginsburg

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Young-Sun Lee

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title*: ****mCLASS:Math: Development and Analysis of an Integrated
Screening, Progress Monitoring, and Cognitive Assessment System for K-3
Mathematics.*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Alaska Fairbanks

**Principal Investigator:** Jerry Lipka

**Goal:** Development

Title: The Potential Efficacy of Math in a Cultural Context: Sixth Grade
Math Modules

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

**Principal Investigator:** Geoffrey Saxe

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Teaching Fractions and Integers: The Development of a
Research-Based Instructional Practice*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

**Principal Investigator:** Stephen Hegedus

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Luis Moreno-Armella

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Democratizing Access to Core Mathematics Grades 9-12*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

    **Principal Investigator:** Mable Kinzie\
    **Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics and Science for At-Risk
Children: Outcomes-Focused Curricula and Support for Teaching Quality*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** Paul Cobb

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Thomas Smith, Dale Farran

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Evaluating Math Recovery With Student Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** John Flaherty

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Joseph McCrary

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Randomized Trial of First in Math: New York City*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Steven Schneider

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Mike Timms

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Diagnostic Embedded Classroom Assessment - An Efficacy
Study*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Steve Schneider\
**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Algebra Intervention for Measured Achievement:*

*Full Year Curriculum*

-   **Name of Institution:** Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    **Principal Investigator:** Neil Heffernan, III\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Making Longitudinal Web-Based Assessments Give
    Cognitively Diagnostic Reports to Teachers, Parents, and Students
    While Employing Mastery Learning*

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## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** High/Scope Educational Research Foundation

**Principal Investigator:** Ann Epstein

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Marijata Daniel-Echols

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Numbers Plus: A Comprehensive Approach to Early*

*Mathematics Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** Lehigh University

**Principal Investigator:** Asha Jitendra

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Jon Star (Harvard University)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Enhancing the Mathematical Problem Solving Performance of
Sixth Grade Students Using Schema-Based Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** Miami Museum of Science

**Principal Investigator:** Judy Brown

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Daryl Greenfield (University of Miami),
Mark Chung (SRI International)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Early Childhood Hands-On Science Curriculum Development and
Demonstration*

-   **Name of Institution:** SRI International

**Principal Investigator:** Jeremy Roschelle

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Ken Rafanan

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Getting Fractions Right With Technology-Mediated
Peer-Assisted Learning (TechPALS)*

-   **Name of Institution:** Biological Sciences Curriculum Study

**Principal Investigator:** Joseph Taylor

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Janet Carlson Powell

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Measuring the Efficacy and Student Achievement of
Research-Based Instructional Materials in High School Multidisciplinary
Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** Richard Lehrer

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Leona Schauble, Mark Wilson (University
of California, Berkeley)

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Assessing Data Modeling and Statistical Reasoning*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

    **Principal Investigator:** Jan Plass\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Catherine Milne, Bruce Homer,

    Trace Jordan\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Molecules and Minds: Optimizing Simulations for*

    *Chemistry Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** Purdue University

    **Principal Investigator:** Panayota Mantzicopoulos\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Helen Patrick, Ala Samarapungavan\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *The Scientific Literacy Project: Enhancing Young
    Children\'s Scientific Literacy Through Reading and Inquiry-Centered
    Adult-Child Dialog*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois

    **Principal Investigator:** Arthur Baroody\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Developing an Intervention to Foster Early Number Sense
    and Skill*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Southern California

    **Principal Investigator:** Carole Beal\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *AnimalWatch: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Grade 6
    Mathematics*

-   **Name of Institution:** Ohio State University

    **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Owens\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Louis Abrahamson (The Better
    Education Foundation), Frank Demana, Karen Irving, Stephen Pape,
    Joan Herman (University of California, Los Angeles)\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Classroom Connectivity in Promoting Mathematics and*

    *Science Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

    **Principal Investigator:** Carne Barnett-Clarke\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Math Pathways and Pitfalls Lessons for K-7 Students:*

    *Improving Mathematics Achievement for English Language Learners*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

    **Principal Investigator:** Prentice Starkey

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Alice Klein

**Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations

**Title:** *Scaling Up the Implementation of a Pre-Kindergarten
Mathematics Curriculum in Public Preschool Programs*

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Buffalo, The State University
    of New York\
    **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Clements\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Julie Sarama, Jaekyung Lee\
    **Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations\
    **Title:** *Scaling Up TRIAD: Teaching Early Mathematics for
    Understanding With Trajectories and Technologies*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

    **Principal Investigator:** Caroline Wylie\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Developing and Using Diagnostic Items in Mathematics and
    Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** Quantum Simulations, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Benny Johnson\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Integrated Software for Artificial Intelligence Tutoring
    and Assessment in Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Oregon

    **Principal Investigator:** David Chard\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Early Learning in Mathematics: A Prevention Approach*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

    **Principal Investigator:** Steve Schneider\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Algebraic Interventions for Measured Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** Education Development Center, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Margaret Clements\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *An Examination of the Impact of Big Math for Little Kids
    on Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Students\' Learning of Math*

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** Kenneth Koedinger\
    **Title:** *Using Web-Based Cognitive Assessment Systems for
    Predicting Student Performance on State Exams*

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# MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL REFORM

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Balfanz

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *High School Preparation for College Completion*

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

**Principal Investigator:** Leanna Stiefel

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *Do Small Schools Improve Student Performance in Large, Urban
Districts? Evidence from New York City*

-   **Name of Institution:** Harvard University

**Principal Investigator:** Richard Murnane

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *The Consequences for High School Students of Failing State
Exit Exams: Evidence From Massachusetts*

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

**Principal Investigator:** Nettie Legters

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *A Curriculum Engagement: Micro-Process Interventions in
Middle and High School to Improve Attendance, Behavior, Achievement and
Grade Promotion for At-Risk Ninth Graders*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

**Principal Investigator:** Patrice Iatarola

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *Implications of High School Course Availability and
Course-Taking*

-   **Name of Institution:** MDRC

**Principal Investigator:** James Kemple

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *A Randomized Efficacy Trial of Academically Enhanced
Rigorous Career Academies: Studying the Impact of the National Academy
Foundation (NAF) Model*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** The University of Chicago

**Principal Investigator:** Diane Schanzenbach

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *Assessing the Effectiveness of Chicago's Small High School
Initiative*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Florida

**Principal Investigator:** Damon Clark

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Francisco Martorell

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *The Impact of Exit Exam Performance on High School and
Postsecondary Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Chicago

**Principal Investigator:** Elaine Allensworth

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Valerie Lee

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Comprehensive Evaluation of the Effects of District-Wide
High School Curriculum Reform on Academic Achievement and Attainment in
Chicago*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Greensboro

**Principal Investigator:** Julie Edmunds

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Lawrence Bernstein

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Study of the Efficacy of North Carolina\'s Learn and Earn
Early College High School Model*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Rochester

**Principal Investigator:** Edward Deci

**Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations

**Title:** *Examining the Effectiveness of Scaling Up the "First Things
First" Reform Approach*

# NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** The 21^st^ Century Partnership for Stem
    Education

**Topic:** Cognition and Science Instruction

**Principal Investigator:** F. Joseph Merlino

**Center Name:** *National Research & Development Center on Cognition
and Science Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** The University of California, Los Angeles\
    **Topic:** Instructional Technology

**Principal Investigator:** Eva Baker

**Center Name:** *National Research & Development Center on
Instructional Technology: Center for Advanced Technology in Schools*

-   **Name of Institution:** Education Development Center

    **Topic:** Instructional Technology

**Principal Investigator:** Cornelia Brunner

**Center Name:** *National Research & Development Center on
Instructional Technology: Center for Children and Technology and Center
for Science Education*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Teachers College, Columbia University

**Topic:** Postsecondary Education and Training

**Principal Investigator:** Thomas Bailey

**Center Name:** *National Center for Postsecondary Research*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Connecticut

**Topic:** Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education

**Principal Investigator:** Joseph Renzulli

**Center Name:** *National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

**Topic:** Early Childhood Development and Education

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Pianta

**Center Name:** *National Center for Research on Early*

*Childhood Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** The Urban Institute

**Topic:** State & Local Education Policy

**Principal Investigator:** Jane Hannaway

**Center Name:** *Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education
Research (CALDER)*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Topic:** State and Local Education Policy

**Principal Investigator:** James Guthrie

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Matthew Springer

**Center Name:** *National Center for Teacher Performance Incentives*

FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

    **Topic:** Assessment, Standards, and Accountability\
    **Principal Investigator:** Eva Baker\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Joan Herman

**Center Name:** *Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and
Student Testing (CRESST)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Houston

    **Topic:** English Language Learners\
    **Principal Investigator:** David Francis\
    **Center Name:** *Center for Research on the Educational Achievement
    and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE)*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

    **Topic:** Low Achieving Schools\
    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Slavin\
    **Center Name:** *Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    **Topic:** Rural Education\
    **Principal Investigator:** Thomas Farmer

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Lynne Vernon-Feagans\
**Center Name:** *National Research Center on Rural Education Support*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Topic:** Innovation in Education Reform\
    **Principal Investigator:** Mark Berends\
    **Center Name:** *National Center on School Choice*

# POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE EDUCATION SCIENCES

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** City University of New York

**Training Director:** Bruce Homer

**Training Co-Directors:** Jan Plass (New York University)

**Title:** *Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research and Training
Fellowship in the Educational Sciences (IPoRT)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Nebraska-Lincoln

**Training Director:** Susan Sheridan

**Training Co-Directors:** James Bovaird, Todd Glover

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on Consultation-based
Interventions for Students with Social and Behavioral Concerns*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Oregon

**Training Director:** Gerald Tindal

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Fellowships on Progress Monitoring in Reading
and Mathematics*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Training Director:** Paul Cobb

**Training Co-Directors:** Gautam Biswas, Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Thomas
Smith

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Training: Research Methods in the Learning
Sciences*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Georgia State University

**Training Director:** Rose Sevcik

**Training Co-Director:** Amy Lederberg

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Research Training in Language and Literacy
Interventions With Special Populations*

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Buffalo, The State University
    of New York

**Training Director:** Julie Sarama

**Training Co-Director:** Douglas Clements

**Title**: *Comprehensive Postdoctoral Training in Scientific Education
Research*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

**Training Director:** Mark Wilson

**Training Co-Director:** Sophie Rabe-Hesketh

**Title:** *The Berkeley Research Experience and Methodology (BREM)
Program*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Stanford University

**Training Director:** Anthony Bryk

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Research Training in the Education Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

**Training Director:** Donna Bryant

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Training in Behavioral and Family Supports*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Oregon

**Training Director:** Robert Horner

**Training Co-Director**: Thomas Dishion

**Title:** *Postdoctoral Research Training in the Education Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

**Training Director:** Robert Pianta

**Title:** *Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Education
Sciences*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida Center for Reading Research,
    Florida State University\
    **Training Director:** Christopher Lonigan\
    **Title:** *PIRT Program to Increase Research Capacity in
    Educational Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

    **Training Director:** Larry Hedges\
    **Title:** *Postdoctoral Research Training in Education Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** Purdue University

    **Training Director:** Douglas Powell\
    **Title:** *Postdoctoral Training in Early Childhood Research*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

    **Training Director:** Prentice Starkey\
    **Title:** *Postdoctoral Training and Research in Children\'s Early
    Mathematical Training*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

    **Training Director:** Charles Perfetti\
    **Title:** *Postdoctoral Training in Reading and Language Research*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Training Director:** David Cordray\
    **Title:** *Experimental Education Research Training (ExpERT)*

# PREDOCTORAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE EDUCATION SCIENCES

## 

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

    **Training Director:** J. Lawrence Aber\
    **Title:** *The New York University (NYU) Predoctoral Training
    Program in Education Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

    **Training Director:** Karl Alexander\
    **Title:** *Using Research to Improve Student and School Outcomes by
    Improving Programs and Practices, Grades K-12*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

    **Training Director:** Noreen Webb\
    **Title:** *Advanced Quantitative Methodology for Improving
    Educational Practice*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Training Director:** David Cordray\
    **Title:** *Vanderbilt Predoctoral Research Training in Education
    Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

    **Training Director:** David Uttal\
    **Title:** *Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Chicago

    **Training Director:** Stephen Raudenbush\
    **Title:** *Interdisciplinary Training in Educational Research
    Methods*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Miami

    **Training Director:** Daryl Greenfield\
    **Title:** *Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research and
    Advanced Statistical Methods*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Minnesota

    **Training Director:** Mark Davison

**Training Co-Director**: Paul van den Broek\
**Title:** *Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pennsylvania

    **Training Director:** Rebecca Maynard\
    **Title:** *University of Pennsylvania Predoctoral Training Program
    in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-Based Research in Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Wisconsin-Madison

    **Training Director:** Adam Gamoran\
    **Title:** *Interdisciplinary Training Program for Predoctoral
    Research in the Education Sciences*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Training Director:** David Klahr\
    **Title:** *Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER)*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida Center for Reading Research,
    Florida State University\
    **Training Director:** Christopher Lonigan\
    **Title:** *PIRT Program to Increase Research Capacity in
    Educational Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

    **Training Director:** David Uttal

**Training Co-Director:** Greg Duncan\
**Title:** *Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences (MPES)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

    **Training Director:** Robert Pianta

**Training Co-Directors:** Laura Justice, Sara Rimm-Kaufman\
**Title:** *Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program in*

*Education Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Training Director:** David Cordray\
    **Title:** *Experimental Education Research Training (ExpERT)*

# PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM EVALUATION RESEARCH

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** John Love

**Title:** *Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) National
Evaluation Contract* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

    **Principal Investigators:** Christopher Lonigan, Christopher
    Schatschneider\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Open Court Pre-K/DLM Express and
    Literacy Express

Title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Preschool Literacy Curricula for
At-Risk Populations

-   **Name of Institution:** Success for All Foundation

    **Principal Investigator:** Bette Chambers\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Curiosity Corner

**Title:** *Randomized Evaluation of Curiosity Corner With Follow-Up
Into Success for All and Control Elementary Programs*

(2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

    **Principal Investigator:** Anne Cunningham\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Ready, Set, Leap!

**Title:** *A Longitudinal Study of the Effectiveness of a
Pre-Kindergarten Multisensory Literacy Curriculum, Experience, and
Professional Development on Children's Learning Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Missouri

    **Principal Investigator:** Kathy Thornburg\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Project Construct

**Title:** *Project Construct: A Catalyst for Early Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

    **Principal Investigator:** Laura Justice\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** The Language-Focused Curriculum

**Title:** *Short- and Long-Term Impact of the Language Focused
Curriculum*

## FY 2002 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** RTI International

**Principal Investigator:** Ina Wallace

**Title:** *Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER) National
Evaluation Contract* (2002-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Purdue University

    **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Powell\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** The Project Approach

**Title:** *The Impact of the Project Approach on Children's School
Readiness and School Achievement* (2002-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

    **Principal Investigator:** Prentice Starkey\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Pre-Kindergarten Mathematics

**Title:** *A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of a Pre-Kindergarten
Mathematics Curriculum on Low-Income Children's Mathematical Knowledge*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of New Hampshire

    **Principal Investigator:** Jeff Priest\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Ladders to Literacy With Creative
    Curriculum

**Title:** *Granite Ladders: An Experimental Evaluation of an Early
Literacy Curriculum for New Hampshire's Preschoolers*

(2002-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Charlotte

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Lambert\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Creative Curriculum

**Title:** *An Evaluation of the Effects of Creative Curriculum on the
Developmental Progress of Children in Two Head Start Programs*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Florida

    **Principal Investigator:** Cheryl Fountain\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Early Literacy and Learning Model

**Title:** *Evaluation of the Early Literacy and Learning Model: A
Curriculum and Instructional Support System*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas Health Science Center
    at Houston

    **Principal Investigator:** Susan Landry\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Let\'s Begin With the Letter
    People; Doors to Discovery

**Title:** *Evaluation of Pre-Kindergarten Curricula in Head Start and
Public School Settings* (2002-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Principal Investigator:** Dale Farran\
    **Curriculum Under Evaluation:** Bright Beginnings;

    Creative Curriculum

**Title:** *Focus in Early Childhood Curricula: Helping Children*

*Transition to School*

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# POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

## FY 2008 AWARDS 

-   **Name of Institution:** MPR Associates, Inc.

**Principal Investigator:** Karen Levesque

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Using High School Transcript Data to Improve Student Access
to 4-Year Colleges*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas at Dallas

**Principal Investigator:** Isaac McFarlin

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *Transitions through Higher Education: Evidence on the
Mismatch Hypothesis*

-   **Name of Institution:** Dartmouth College

**Principal Investigator:** Bruce Sacerdote

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Scott Carrell (University of California,
Davis)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Getting Qualified High School Seniors to Enroll in College:
An Experimental Study in Vermont*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Chicago

**Principal Investigator:** Melissa Roderick

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Stephen Raudenbush

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** Improving Postsecondary Preparation in Urban Public High
Schools: An Evaluation of AVID in Chicago

-   **Name of Institution:** Berkeley Policy Associates

**Principal Investigator:** Johannes Bos

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title**: *Evaluation of the SOURCE Program: An Intervention to Promote
College Application and Enrollment Among Urban Youth-Primary Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** SRI International

**Principal Investigator:** Louise Yarnall

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Geneva Haertel

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Domain-Specific Assessment: Bringing the Classroom into
Community College Accountability*

## FY 2007 AWARDS 

-   **Name of Institution:** Correctional Education Association

**Principal Investigator:** Stephen Steurer

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Penny Richardson

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Developing a Program of Postsecondary Academic Instruction
Over the Corrections Learning Network*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Davis

**Principal Investigator:** Michal Kurlaender

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *The Effects of Institutional Practices on Postsecondary
Trajectories \-- Matriculation, Persistence and Time-to-Degree*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas at Dallas

**Principal Investigator:** Isaac McFarlin, Jr.

**Goal:** Identification

**Title:** *The Effects of College Remediation on Students\' Academic
and Labor Market Outcomes*

# READING AND WRITING

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Mid-continent Research for Education and
    Learning (McREL)

**Principal Investigator:** Helen Apthorp

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

Title: *Efficacy Trial of Robust Vocabulary Instruction*

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

**Principal Investigator:** Paul Deane

**Goal:** Measurement

Title: *Measuring the Development of Vocabulary and Word Learning to
Support Content Area Reading and Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

**Principal Investigator:** David Mostow

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Margaret McKeown, Charles Perfetti
(University of Pittsburgh)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Developing Vocabulary in an Automated Reading Tutor*

-   **Name of Institution:** The Pennsylvania State University

**Principal Investigator:** Kay Wijekumar

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Bonnie Meyer, Pui-Wa Lei, Jonna
Kulikowich

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Efficacy and Replication Research on the Intelligent
Tutoring System for the Structure Strategy \-- Rural and Suburban
Schools Grades 4,5,7 and 8*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Center for Applied Linguistics

**Principal Investigator:** Igone Arteagoitia

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Howard\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Content-Based Vocabulary Instruction: Using Cognates to
Promote the Vocabulary Development and Reading Comprehension of Native
Spanish Speakers*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

**Principal Investigator:** Carol Connor

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Frederick Morrison (University of
Michigan)

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Child-Instruction Interactions in Reading: Examining Causal
Effects of Individualized Instruction in Second and Third Grade*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Colorado at Boulder

    **Principal Investigator:** Barbara Wise

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Early ICARE: Early Independent Comprehensive Adaptive
Reading Evaluation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Nebraska-Lincoln

**Principal Investigator:** J. Ron Nelson\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Effects of a Supplementary Vocabulary Intervention for
Students with Limited English Proficiency*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Oregon

**Principal Investigator:** Scott Baker

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Lana Edwards Santoro

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Reading Intervention with Spanish-Speaking Students:
Maximizing Instructional Effectiveness in English and Spanish*

-   **Name of Institution:** Washington Research Institute

**Principal Investigator:** Patricia Vadasy

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
**Title:** *Efficacy of Sound Partners Supplemental Tutoring for ELL
Students, Grades K-1*

### 

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** California State University, Los Angeles

    **Principal Investigator:** Anne Hafner\
    **Goal:** Identification\
    **Title:** *Using Growth Mixture Modeling to Identify Patterns of
    Early Reading Development and Teacher and Program Correlates for
     English Learners* (2006-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Teachers College, Columbia University

    **Principal Investigator:** Dolores Perin\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Postsecondary Content-Area Reading-Writing Intervention:
    Development and Determination of Potential Efficacy*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Santa Cruz

    **Principal Investigator:** Judith Scott

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Katharine Samway (San Jose State
University)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Vocabulary Development Through Writing: A Key to*

*Academic Success*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas Health Sciences Center
    at Houston

    **Principal Investigator:** Dennis Ciancio\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Development of an Empirically Based Vocabulary
    Curriculum for Kindergarten and First Grade Students*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Arizona State University

    **Principal Investigator:** M. Adelaida Restrepo\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Vocabulary and Abstract Language Enhancement (VALE) to
    Improve Reading Comprehension in English Language Learners*

-   **Name of Institution:** CAST, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Bridget Dalton\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Patrick Proctor (Boston College),
    Catherine Snow (Harvard University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Improving Reading Comprehension for Struggling Readers:
    Understanding the Roles of Vocabulary Development, Guided Strategy
    Use, and Spanish Language Supports in a Digital Reading Environment*

-   **Name of Institution:** Texas A&M University

    **Principal Investigator:** Jorge Gonzalez\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Deborah Simmons\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Project Words of Oral Reading and Language Development
    (Project WORLD)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Riverside

    **Principal Investigator:** Robert Calfee\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Roxanne Miller (Chapman University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *The Read-Write Cycle: An Integrated Model for
    Instruction and Assessment of Reading Comprehension Through Reading
    and Writing in the Disciplines*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Riverside

    **Principal Investigator:** Rollanda O\'Connor\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** H. Lee Swanson\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Variations in Procedures to Improve Reading Fluency and
    Comprehension*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Connecticut

    **Principal Investigator:** Donald Leu\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** David Reinking (Clemson University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Developing Internet Comprehension Strategies Among
    Adolescent Students At Risk to Become Dropouts*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Principal Investigator:** Donald Compton\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Evaluating a Multicomponent Reading Intervention
    Designed to Address the Diverse Needs of Struggling Readers in Late*

    *Elementary School*

-   **Name of Institution:** Pacific Institutes for Research

    **Principal Investigator:** Scott Baker\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Lana Edwards Santoro, David Chard\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *The Read Aloud Curriculum in First Grade Classrooms:
Furthering Our Understanding of Immediate and Long-Term Impacts and
Causal Influences*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

    **Principal Investigator:** Laura Justice\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Print Referencing Efficacy*

-   **Name of Institution:** Boston University

    **Principal Investigator:** Gloria Waters\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Assessment of Comprehension Skills in Older Struggling
    Readers*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Houston

    **Principal Investigator:** David Francis\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Catherine Snow (Harvard University),
    Diane August (Center for Applied Linguistics)\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension:
    Development and Validation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Chicago

    **Principal Investigator:** Kimberly Lawless\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Susan Goldman\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Assessing Readers Struggling to Comprehend Multiple
    Sources of Information*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Buffalo, The State University
    of New York

    **Principal Investigator:** James Collins\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Writing Intensive Reading Comprehension: Effects of
    Comprehension Instruction With and Without Integrated Writing
    Instruction on Fourth and Fifth Grade Students\' Reading
    Comprehension and Writing Performance*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Kansas

    **Principal Investigator:** Michael Hock\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Improving Adolescent Reading Comprehension: A
    Multi-Strategy Reading Intervention*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Memphis

    **Principal Investigator:** Danielle McNamara\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *iSTART: Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading
    and Thinking*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Minnesota

    **Principal Investigator:** Paul van den Broek\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Kristen McMaster, David Rapp\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Improving Comprehension of Struggling Readers:
    Connecting Cognitive Science and Educational Practice*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

    **Principal Investigator:** Margaret McKeown\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Isabel Beck\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Toward More Meaningful Decisions About Comprehension
    Instruction* (2004-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida Atlantic University

    **Principal Investigator:** Nancy Romance\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Michael Vitale (Eastern Carolina
    University)\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Embedding Knowledge-Focused Reading Comprehension
    Strategies in Cumulative Content-Area Instruction in Grades 3-4-5:
    An Assessment of Immediate, Transfer, and Long-Term Impact on
    Reading Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** Washington Research Institute

    **Principal Investigator:** Patricia Vadasy\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Quick Reads Supplementary Tutoring Efficacy and
    Replication Trials*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Iowa

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Hurtig\
    **Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations\
    **Title:** *Breakthrough to Literacy in the Chicago Public Schools:
    A Large Scale Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Reading
    Comprehension Intervention*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Fuchs\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Kristen McMaster (University of
    Minnesota), Laura Saenz (University of Texas-Pan American)\
    **Goal:** Scale-Up Evaluations\
    **Title:** *Scaling Up Peer Assisted Learning Strategies to
    Strengthen Reading Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

    **Principal Investigator:** John Sabatini\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Developing Reading Comprehension Assessments Targeting
    Struggling Readers*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northern Illinois University

    **Principal Investigator:** Joseph Magliano

**Co-Principal Investigator**: Keith Millis\
**Goal:** Measurement\
**Title:** *Assessing Reading Comprehension With Verbal Protocols and
Latent Semantic Analysis*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Colorado at Boulder

    **Principal Investigator:** Barbara Wise\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *ICARE: Independent Comprehensive Adaptive Reading
    Evaluation System*

### 

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Carnegie Mellon University

    **Principal Investigator:** James Callan

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Maxine Eskenazi, Charles Perfetti
(University of Pittsburgh)

**Title:** *Reader-Specific Lexical Practice for Improved Reading
Comprehension*

-   **Name of Institution:** The Pennsylvania State University

    **Principal Investigator:** Bonnie Meyer\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Kay Wijekumar, Wendy Middlemiss\
    **Title:** *Intelligent Tutoring Using the Structure Strategy to
    Improve Reading Comprehension of Middle School Students*

-   **Name of Institution:** Teachers College, Columbia University

    **Principal** **Investigator:** Joanna Williams\
    **Title:** *Teaching Elementary Students to Comprehend Expository
    Text*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Connecticut

    **Principal Investigator:** Michael Coyne\
    **Title:** *Project VITAL: Vocabulary Intervention Targeting At-Risk
    Learners* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Anderson\
    **Title:** *Improving Comprehension and Writing Through Reasoned
    Argumentation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    **Principal Investigator:** Georgia Garcia\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Barbara Taylor (University of
    Minnesota), David Pearson (University of California, Berkeley)\
    **Title:** *Instruction of Reading Comprehension: Cognitive
    Strategies Or Cognitive Engagement* (2003-2007)

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Wagner\
    **Title:** *Origins of Individual and Developmental Differences in
    Reading Comprehension* (2003-2007)

## FY 2002 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** CAST, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Bridget Dalton\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Annemarie Palincsar (University of
    Michigan)\
    **Title:** *Reading to Learn: Investigating General and Domain
    Specific Supports in a Technology-Rich Environment With Diverse
    Readers Learning From Informational Text* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** Ohio State University

    **Principal Investigator:** Ian Wilkinson\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Anna Soter, P. Karen Murphy (The
    Pennsylvania State University)\
    **Title:** *Group Discussions as a Mechanism for Promoting
    High-Level Comprehension of Text* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** Pacific Institutes for Research

    **Principal Investigator:** Scott Baker

**Co-Principal Investigators:** David Chard, Lana Edwards Santoro

**Title:** *The Story Read Aloud Project: The Development of an
Innovative Instructional Approach to Promote Comprehension and
Vocabulary in First Grade Classrooms* (2002-2005)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Colorado at Boulder

**Principal Investigator:** Thomas Landauer

**Title:** *Research On and With Novel Educational Technologies for
Comprehension* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

    **Principal Investigators:** Charles Perfetti, Erik Reichle\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown\
    **Title:** *Word Learning and Comprehension: New Laboratory
    Approaches and Classroom Studies* (2002-2006)

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Memphis

    **Principal Investigator:** Danielle McNamara\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Art Graesser, Max Louwerse\
    **Title:** *Coh-Metrix: Automated Cohesion and Coherence Scores to
    Predict Text Readability and Facilitate Comprehension* (2002-2007)

# SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONTEXT FOR ACADEMIC LEARNING

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** DePaul University

**Principal Investigator:** Kathryn Grant

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Development of an Intervention to Improve Academic Outcomes
for Low-Income Urban Youth Through Instruction in Effective Coping
Supported by Mentoring Relationships*

-   **Name of Institution:** Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

**Principal Investigator:** Linda Reddy

**Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Development and Validation of a Teacher Progress Monitoring
Scale for Elementary School Teachers*

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

**Principal Investigator:** Sandra McClowry

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Testing the Efficacy of INSIGHTS in Enhancing the Academic
Learning Context*

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University

**Principal Investigator:** Nicholas Ialongo

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Combination of Two
Preventive Interventions*

-   **Name of Institution:** Oregon State University

**Principal Investigator:** Brian Flay

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *The Chicago Social and Character Development Trial:
Extension to Grade 8*

# SOCIAL AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

**Principal Investigator:** John Burghardt

**Title:** *Social and Character Development National Evaluation
Contract*

-   **Name of Institution:** Children\'s Institute

    **Principal Investigators:** Deborah Johnson, Hugh Crean

**Program Under Evaluation:** Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies

**Title:** *PATHS to Children\'s Social and Character Development:*

*A Clinical Trial of a School-Based Preventive Intervention*

-   **Name of Institution:** Oregon State University

    **Principal Investigators:** Brian Flay, David DuBois (University of
    Illinois at Chicago), Carol Allred (Positive Action, Inc.)

**Program Under Evaluation:** Positive Action

**Title:** *Positive Action for Social and Character Development*

-   **Name of Institution:** New York University

    **Principal Investigators:** J. Lawrence Aber, Stephanie Jones
    (Fordham University), Joshua Brown

**Program Under Evaluation:** The 4Rs: Reading, Writing, Respect,

and Resolution

**Title:** *Reading, Writing, Respect, and Resolution: The Impact of a*

*Social and Character Development and Literacy Program on Teachers and
Children*

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Buffalo, The State University
    of New York

    **Principal Investigators:** William Pelham, Jr., Greta Massetti

**Program Under Evaluation:** Academic and Behavioral

Competencies Model

**Title:** *Randomized Trial of the School-Wide Academic and Behavioral
Competencies Program in Urban, Low-Income Public School Settings*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Maryland, College Park

    **Principal Investigator:** Gary Gottfredson

**Program Under Evaluation:** Second Step

**Title:** *Character Education Inquiry: A Multi-School Research
Initiative*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    **Principal Investigators:** Thomas Farmer, Mark Fraser

**Program Under Evaluation:** Competence Support Program

**Title:** *Social and Character Development in Rural Youth:*

*The Competence Support Program*

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

    **Principal Investigators:** Leonard Bickman, Katie Smith

**Program Under Evaluation:** Love in a Big World

**Title:** *An Evaluation of the Character Development Program Love in a
Big World*

# TEACHER QUALITY: MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, San Diego

**Principal Investigator:** Loren Thompson

Goal: Development

**Title:** *Education Research: BioBridge Teacher Quality*\--The
*BioBridge Teacher Professional Development (PD)*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of South Florida

**Principal Investigator:** Robert Potter

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Dana Zeidler (University of South
Florida), Andi Ringer (Hillsborough County Public Schools)

Goal: Development

**Title:** *Leadership for Integrated Middle-School Science (LIMSS)*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Mills College

**Principal Investigator:** Catherine Lewis\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Improving the Mathematical Content Base of Lesson Study:
Design and Test of a Research-Based Toolkit*

-   **Name of Institution:** Milwaukee School of Engineering

**Principal Investigator:** Ann Batiza

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Mary Gruhl (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Effect of the SUN Teacher Workshop on Student Achievement*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

**Principal Investigator:** Steven Schneider

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Cynthia Greenleaf

Goal: Development

Title*:* *Understanding Science: Improving Achievement of Middle School
Students in Science*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Virginia

    **Principal Investigator:** Sara Rimm-Kaufman\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *The Efficacy of the Responsive Classroom Approach for
    Improving Teacher Quality and Children's Academic Performance*

### 

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Berkeley

    **Principal Investigator:** Roland Tharp

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Trish Stoddard (University of California,
Santa Cruz)\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Integrating Science and Diversity Education: A Model of
Pre-Service Elementary Teacher Preparation*

-   **Name of Institution:** LessonLab, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Nicole Kersting\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Rosella Santagata, Karen Givvin\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Using Video Clips of Classroom Instruction as Item
    Prompts to Measure Teacher Knowledge of Teaching Mathematics:
    Instrument Development and Validation*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Allegheny Singer Research Institute

    **Principal Investigator:** Luanne Hall-Stoodley

    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Michelle Zuckerman\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Mentoring Teachers Through Pedagogical Content*

    *Knowledge Development*

-   **Name of Institution:** Education Development Center, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Nancy Clark-Chiarelli\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Jess Gropen\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Assessing the Potential Impact of a Professional
    Development Program in Science on Head Start Teachers and Children*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    **Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Doll\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Ron Bonnstetter, Roger Bruning,

    Christy Horn\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Evolving Inquiry: An Experimental Test of a Science
    Instruction Model for Teachers in Rural, Culturally Diverse Schools*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Toledo

    **Principal Investigator:** Carla Johnson\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Jamison Fargo (Utah State
    University)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Utah\'s Improving Science Teacher Quality Initiative*

-   **Name of Institution:** South Carolina Department of Education

    **Principal Investigator:** Christina Schneider\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Investigating the Efficacy of a Professional Development
    Program in Classroom Assessment for Middle School Reading and
    Mathematics*

-   **Name of Institution:** SRI International

    **Principal Investigator:** William Penuel\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Comparing the Efficacy of Three Approaches to Improving
    Teaching Quality in Science Education: Curriculum Implementation,
    Design, and Adaptation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of South Florida

    **Principal Investigator:** Kathryn Borman\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Kim Davis (District School Board of
    Pasco County), Sherri Steffen (Teaching SMART and Girls Inc., Rapid
    City)\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Replication and Outcomes of the Teaching SMART® Program
    in Elementary Science Classrooms*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** DePaul University

    **Principal Investigator:** Barbara Radner\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Algebra Connections: Teacher Education in Clear
    Instruction and Responsive Assessment of Algebra Patterns and
    Problem Solving*

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Tannenbaum\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *The Relationship Between Mathematics Teachers\' Content
    Knowledge and Students\' Mathematics Achievement: Exploring the
    Predictive Validity of the Praxis Series Middle School Mathematics
    Test*

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** LessonLab Inc.\
    **Principal Investigator:** James Stigler\
    **Title:** *Improving Achievement by Maintaining the Learning
    Potential of Rich Mathematics Problems: An Experimental Study of a
    Video- and Internet-Based Professional Development Program*

## 

# TEACHER QUALITY: READING AND WRITING

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Michigan

**Principal Investigator:** Joanne Carlisle\
**Goal:** Measurement\
**Title:** *Development of an Interactive, Multimedia Assessment of
Teachers\' Knowledge of Early Reading*

-   **Name of Institution:** National Bureau of Economic Research

**Principal Investigator:** Jesse Rothstein\
**Goal:** Measurement\
**Title:** *Value-Added Models and the Measurement of Teacher Quality:
Tracking or Causal Effects?*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

**Principal Investigator:** Linda Kucan

Co-Principal Investigators*:* Annemarie Palinscar (University of
Michigan)

Goal: Development

Title: *The Iterative Design of Modules to Support Reading Comprehension
Instruction*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Purdue University

**Principal Investigator:** Douglas Powell

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Karen Diamond

**Goal**: Development

**Title:** *Classroom Links to Vocabulary and Phonological Sensitivity
Skills*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** California State University, Long Beach

**Principal Investigator:** Claude Goldenberg

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Standards-Based Differentiated ELD Instruction to Improve
English Language Arts Achievement for English Language Learners*

-   **Name of Institution:** University at Albany, State University of
    New York

**Principal Investigator:** Donna Scanlon

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Lynn Gelzheiser, Frank Vellutino,

Virginia Goatley

**Goal:** Development

**Title:** *Enhancing Knowledge Related to Research-Based Early Literacy
Instruction Among Pre-Service Teachers*

### 

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Irvine

**Principal Investigator:** Carol Olson

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *The Pathway Project: A Cognitive Strategies Approach to
 Reading and Writing Instruction for Teachers of Secondary English
Language Learners*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Pittsburgh

**Principal Investigator:** Lindsay Clare Matsumura

**Co-Principal Investigators:** Brian Junker (Carnegie Mellon
University), Lauren Resnick, Donna DiPrima Bickel

**Goal:** Efficacy and Replication

**Title:** *Content-Focused Coaching ^SM^ for High Quality Reading
Instruction*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

    **Principal Investigator:** Alysia Roehrig\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Mary Brownell (University of
    Florida), Christopher Schatschneider, Joseph Torgesen\
    **Goal:** Identification\
    **Title:** *Identifying the Conditions Under Which Large Scale
    Professional Development Policy Initiatives are Related to Teacher
    Knowledge, Instructional Practices, and Student Reading Outcomes*

-   **Name of Institution:** Success for All Foundation

    **Principal Investigator:** Nancy Madden\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Embedded Classroom Multimedia: Improving Implementation
    Quality and Student Achievement in a Cooperative Writing Program*

-   **Name of Institution:** Texas A&M University

    **Principal Investigator:** Deborah Simmons\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** William Rupley, Sharon Vaughn
    (University of Texas at Austin)\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Enhancing the Quality of Expository Text Instruction
    Through Content and Case-Situated Professional Development*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas at San Antonio

    **Principal Investigator:** Misty Sailors\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Janis Harmon\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Teaching Teachers to Teach Critical Reading Strategies
    (CREST) Through an Intensive Professional Development Model*

-   **Name of Institution:** Education Development Center, Inc.

    **Principal Investigator:** Nancy Clark-Chiarelli\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Examining the Efficacy of Two Models of Preschool
    Professional Development in Language and Literacy*

-   **Name of Institution:** WestEd

    **Principal Investigator:** Cynthia Greenleaf\
    **Co-Principal Investigators:** Steve Schneider, Joan Herman
    (University of California, Los Angeles)\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *A Randomized Controlled Study of the Efficacy of Reading
    Apprenticeship Professional Development for High School History and
    Science Teaching and Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Michigan

    **Principal Investigator:** Joanne Carlisle\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Brian Rowan\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Assessment of Pedagogical Knowledge of Teachers of
    Reading*

-   **Name of Institution:** Utah State University

    **Principal Investigator:** D. Ray Reutzel\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Janice Dole (University of Utah)\
    **Goal:** Measurement

**Title:** *Connecting Primary Grade Teacher Knowledge to Primary Grade
Student Achievement: Developing the Evidence-Based Reading/Writing
Teacher Knowledge Assessment System*

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Purdue University

    **Principal Investigator:** Douglas Powell

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Karen Diamond\
**Goal:** Development\
**Title:** *Professional Development in Early Reading*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    **Principal Investigators:** Virginia Buysse, Dina Castro\
    **Goal:** Development\
    **Title:** *Improving Teacher Quality to Address the Language and
    Literacy Skills of Latino Children in Pre-Kindergarten Programs*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Chicago

    **Principal Investigator:** Anthony Bryk\
    **Goal:** Efficacy and Replication\
    **Title:** *Can Literacy Professional Development be Improved With
    Web-Based Collaborative Learning Tools?: A Randomized Field Trial*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University

    **Principal Investigators:** Douglas Harris, Tim Sass\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Assessing Teacher Effectiveness: How Can We Predict Who
    Will be a High Quality Teacher?*

-   **Name of Institution:** RAND Corporation

    **Principal Investigator:** Richard Buddin\
    **Goal:** Measurement\
    **Title:** *Teacher Licensure Tests and Student Achievement*

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Haskins Laboratories

    **Principal Investigators:** Susan Brady, Marjorie Gillis\
    **Title:** *Mastering Reading Instruction: A Professional
    Development Project for First Grade Teachers*

-   **Name of Institution:** Instructional Research Group

    **Principal Investigator:** Russell Gersten\
    **Title:** *Teacher Quality Study: An Investigation of the Impact of
    Teacher Study Groups as a Means to Enhance The Quality of Reading
    Instruction for First Graders in High Poverty Schools in Two States*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Michigan

    **Principal Investigator:** Joanne Carlisle\
    **Title:** *Identifying Key Components of Effective Professional
    Development in Reading for First Grade Teachers and Their Students*

# UNSOLICITED AND OTHER AWARDS

## FY 2008 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Larry Hedges

**Title:** *Representing and Combining the Results of Randomized
Experiments in Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Larry Hedges

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Mark Constas

**Title:** *The Continued Development of the Society for Research on
Educational Effectiveness (SREE)*

-   **Name of Institution:** RAND Corporation

**Principal Investigator:** Bing Han

**Title:** *Simultaneous Statistical Inference in Evaluating Teacher
Performance*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Larry Hedges

**Co-Principal Investigators:** David Cordray, Mark Lipsey

**Title:** *Proposal for an RCT Training Institute*

## FY 2007 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

**Principal Investigator:** John Sabatini

**Title:** *Assessing Reading in the 21st Century Conference: Aligning
and Applying Advances in the Reading and Measurement Sciences*

-   **Name of Institution:** Educational Testing Service

**Principal Investigator:** Sandip Sinharay

**Title:** *A Study of the Missing Data Assumptions of the
Non-equivalent Groups with Anchor Test Design and Their Implications for
Test Equating*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Thomas Cook

**Title:** *Improving Better Quasi-Experimental Practice*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

**Principal Investigator:** Greg J. Duncan

**Title:** *The Effects of Disadvantaged Schools and Neighborhoods on
the Education of Low-Income Youth*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of California, Los Angeles

**Principal Investigator:** Eva L. Baker, Kilchan Choi

**Title:** *Latent Variable Regression Four-Level/Five-Level
Hierarchical Models for Experimental/Quasi-Experimental Studies,
Evaluation Studies, and Teacher and/or School Accountability*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Illinois at Chicago

**Principal Investigator:** Jennifer Wiley

**Title:** *AWARDS for Research in Cognition and Student Learning*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Iowa

**Principal Investigator:** Andrew Ho

**Co-Principal Investigator**: Stephen Dunbar

**Title:** *Evaluating the Impact of the Choice of Test Score Scale on
the Measurement of Individual Student Growth*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Michigan

**Principal Investigator:** Kevin F. Miller

**Title:** *Modeling and Developing Situation Awareness in Teachers*

## FY 2006 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Vanderbilt University

**Principal Investigator:** David Cordray

**Title:** *Measures of Fidelity of Implementation*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Washington

**Principal Investigator:** Dan Goldhaber

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Bethany Gross

**Title:** *Estimation of Teacher Effects*

-   **Name of Institution:** American Institutes for Research

**Principal Investigator:** Harold Doran

**Title:** Psychometrics and Value Added Modeling

-   **Name of Institution:** Council of Great City Schools

**Principal Investigator:** Michael Casserly

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Jason Snipes

**Title:** *Research Training for Policy*

## FY 2005 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Syracuse University

    **Principal Investigator:** Benita Blachman\
    **Co-Principal Investigator:** Christopher Schatschneider

**Title:** *A One-Year Follow-Up of Evidence-Based Early Reading
Intervention Provided by Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers*
(2005-2007)

## FY 2004 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Cornell University

    **Principal Investigators:** Mark Constas, Larry Hedges

    **Title:** *Society for the Advancement of Education Sciences: A
    Proposal for a New Scientific Organization*

-   **Name of Institution:** Northwestern University

    **Principal Investigator:** Larry Hedges\
    **Title:** *Representation and Combination of the Results of
    Multi-Site Randomized Experiments in Education*

-   **Name of Institution:** RAND Corporation

    **Principal Investigator:** J. R. Lockwood\
    **Title:** *Enhanced Value-Added Models for Estimating Teacher
    Effects*

## FY 2003 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Georgetown University

    **Principal Investigator:** Sharon Ramey\
    **Curriculum:** Building Language for Literacy and Core Knowledge

**Title:** *Building Language for Literacy: A Comparison of Curricula
and Coaching Conditions for Pre-Kindergarten and Head Start Classrooms*

-   **Name of Institution:** Southern Methodist University

    **Principal Investigator:** Patricia Mathes

**Co-Principal Investigator:** Carolyn Denton (University of Texas at
Austin)\
**Interagency Education Research Initiative Program**\
**Title:** *Scaling-Up Effective Intervention for Preventing Reading
Difficulties in Young Children*

## FY 2002 AWARDS

-   **Name of Institution:** Johns Hopkins University (2002-2007)

    **Principal Investigator:** James McPartland\
    **Interagency Education Research Initiative Program**\
    **Title:** *Implementation and Impact of Reading, Mathematics, and
    Science Interventions for Middle and High School Students in the
    Context of Talent Development Reforms*

-   **Name of Institution:** University of Texas Health Science Center
    at Houston (2002-2007)

    **Principal Investigator:** Susan Landry\
    **Interagency Education Research Initiative Program**\
    **Title:** *Scaling Up a Language and Literacy Development Program
    at the Pre-Kindergarten Level*

-   **Name of Institution:** Florida State University (2002-2007)

    **Principal Investigator:** Barbara Foorman\
    **Interagency Education Research Initiative Program**\
    **Title:** *Scaling Up an Assessment-Driven Intervention Using the
    Internet and Hand-Held Computers*

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# FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

**Visit** http://ies.ed.gov/ncer/funding/ **for more information about
the National Center for Education Research funding opportunities.**

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