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NSF PR 00-72 - October 5, 2000
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Federal Agencies Join Hands for Second Year of Leading-Edge
Education Research
The National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department
of Education (ED), and the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development (NICHD) have announced
the second round of awards under the Interagency Education
Research Initiative (IERI), supporting research aimed
at improving education in reading, math and science
from preschool through high school.
The new awards, totaling $28 million, will fund seven
new research studies in six states, as well as 14
planning initiatives around the U.S., all focused
on the most effective and feasible methods for teaching
and learning in mathematics, reading and science in
pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
"How well we educate our children depends in no small
part on how well we understand education itself,"
says Neal Lane, the President's Science Advisor. "In
almost every area of our national life, from health
to business, the investment in research is substantial.
IERI is a good first step toward improving our national
investment in reading, math, and science education
research."
"Historically, investments in broad-based, integrated
educational research have been woefully inadequate,"
says Judith Sunley, interim assistant director for
Education and Human Resources at NSF. "The infusion
of this funding and the cooperation of the agencies
today allows us to integrate research in such areas
as learning processes in reading, math and science
education--research that previously would have been
conducted in unconnected projects supported by separate
agencies."
One of the stated goals of IERI is to conduct preK-12
research over a long period in a wide range of instructional
settings.
"An important feature of this year's competition is
that only proposals that met certain benchmarks were
funded," said Reid Lyon, Chief of the Child Development
and Behavior Branch at NICHD. "All of these research
studies meet high standards of methodological rigor,
are of sufficient scale, integrate technology, and
will be conducted by interdisciplinary research teams."
Several of this year's projects examine such factors
as reading motivation, linguistics and the ability
to understand more complex scientific concepts. For
example, three projects, at the University of Maryland
College Park, the University of Miami, and the University
of Michigan, are examining the linkages between literacy
skills and the acquisition of scientific concepts
in diverse school populations. Two of the planning
initiatives are aimed at collecting, integrating,
and using data across projects.
The combination of planning and full-scale research
grants will provide an optimal mix for the creation
of a strong research portfolio," said James Griffin,
program director from ED's Office of Educational Research
and Improvement. "These studies are very difficult
to pull off, so we need to nurture partnerships between
investigators and school systems, and be prepared
to adequately fund them when they are ready to go
to scale."
Last year, the first 14 IERI awards were made to 12
institutions in nine states, supporting research in
education strategies to improve teaching and learning
in grades preK-12.
Attachment: Interagency
Education Research Initiative Awards for 2000
Attachment
Interagency Education Research Initiative Awards for
2000
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University
of Maryland College Park
John Guthrie
Increasing Reading Comprehension, Motivation
and Science Knowledge through Concept-Oriented
Reading Instruction in a District-wide
Experiment |
Amount: $3,414,483 |
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University of Georgia Research
Foundation Inc
Linda Labbo
Best Practices - Teacher Preparation
- Technology: Connections that Enhance
Children's Literacy Acquisition and Reading
Achievement |
Amount: $5,551,059 |
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University of Miami
Okhee Lee
Instructional Intervention to Promote
Science and Literacy for Linguistically
Diverse Elementary Students |
Amount: $2,500,000 |
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Old Dominion Research Foundation,
Norfolk, Va.
Danielle McNamara
Promoting Active Reading Strategies
to Improve Students' Understanding of
Science |
Amount: $3,196,913 |
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University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
Kevin Miller
Representing and Learning from Classroom
Processes |
Amount: $1,824,224 |
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Regents of University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Nancy Songer
BioKIDS: Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species |
Amount: $4,569,681 |
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University of Georgia Research
Foundation Inc
Steven Stahl
The Development of Fluent and Automatic
Reading: Precursor to Learning from Text
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Amount: $5,283,437 |
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Stevens Institute of Technology,
Hoboken, N.J.
Edward Friedman
Applying Technology and Triarchic Enhancement
to Instruction and Assessment in a School
Science Curriculum: Air-Traffic Control,
Earthquake, and Air-Pollution Analysis |
Amount: $490,713
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University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Richard Basom
Testing a research/technology-based
delivery system to improve student performance
in mathematics and science in middle schools
in rural, high-poverty communities |
Amount: $100,000
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Education Development Center,
Newton, Mass.
Jeanne Century
Looking Inside the Black Box: Classroom
Practice that Supports High Achievement
in Both Science and Reading |
Amount: $118,363 |
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University of California
San Diego
Michael Cole
Coordinating Educational Institutions
for Sustained Academic Success |
Amount: $118,496 |
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Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, N.J.
Drew Gitomer
Professional Development Support Systems
for Mathematics and Science Teaching |
Amount: $106,411
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Concord Consortium, Concord,
Mass.
Paul Horwitz
Modeling Across the Curriculum |
Amount: $102,239
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Center for Occupational
Research and Development,
Waco, Texas
Darrell Hull
Planning a Research Program to Study
How to Improve the Effectiveness of Using
Telecommunications to Teach Science
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Amount: $104,351 |
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University of California
Los Angeles
Alison Imbens-Bailey
Building Bridges to Student and Teacher
Learning: Early Literacy Assessment and
Intervention |
Amount: $109,162 |
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University of Colorado
Boulder
Walter Kintsch
Scalable and Sustainable Technologies
for Reading Instruction and Assessment
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Amount: $107,060 |
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SRI International, Menlo
Park, Calif.
Barbara Means
Planning for a System of Principled
Assessment Designs of Inquiry (PADI)
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Amount: $111,000 |
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SRI International
Jeremy Roschelle
Planning a Rigorous Experimental Trial
of SimCalc's Approach to Increasing Access
to Complex Mathematical Ideas |
Amount: $116,123
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Univerity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Frank Rusch
Planning Grant for National Data Collection
Center |
Amount: $99,999
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National Opinion Research
Center, Chicago, Ill.
Barbara Schneider
Data Research and Development Center
(DRDC) |
Amount: $109,708 |
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University of Illinois
Chicago
Timothy Shanahan
The Evaluation & Analysis of an Innovative
Framework for School Reading |
Amount: $110,000 |
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University of Maryland
College Park
Linda Valli
High Quality Teaching of Foundational
Skills in Mathematics and Reading |
Amount: $102,078 |
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