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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Novick, Laura

Award Amount: $665,247

Award Period: 3 years

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Biswas, Gautam

Award Amount: $1,499,980

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
A Narrative Comprehension Intervention for Elementary School Children At-Risk for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
University of Kentucky

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Lorch, Elizabeth

Award Amount: $1,481,432

Award Period: 3 years (3/1/2012-2/28/2015)

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Northern Illinois University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Millis, Keith

Award Amount: $1,986,743

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Advancing the Math Skills of Low-Achieving Adolescents in Technology-Rich Learning Environments

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Bottge, Brian

Award Amount: $1,050,000

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Alphabet Instruction Details

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Oregon Research Institute

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Vadasy, Patricia

Award Amount: $1,499,820

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2015 – 6/30/2018)

Title:
An Elementary-age Origami and Pop-up Paper Engineering Curriculum to Promote the 3-D Spatial Thinking and Reasoning Underlying STEM Education

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
Tufts University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Taylor, Holly

Award Amount: $1,250,884

Award Period: 3 years (8/1/2014 – 7/31/2017)

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

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gholson, Barry

Award Amount: $1,050,000

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Arithmetic Practice that Promotes Conceptual Understanding and Computational Fluency

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Notre Dame

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McNeil, Nicole

Award Amount: $761,425

Award Period: 4 years

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Pavlik Jr., Philip

Award Amount: $1,120,955

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Child Instruction Interactions in Early Reading: Examining Causal Effects of Individualized Instruction

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Connor, Carol M.

Award Amount: $1,691,582

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Combining Advantages of Collaborative and Individual Learning with an Intelligent Tutoring System for Fractions

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Aleven, Vincent

Award Amount: $1,500,000

Award Period: 3 years (9/1/2012 – 8/31/2015)

Title:
Comprehension SEEDING: Comprehension Through Self-Explanation, Enhanced Discussion and Inquiry Generation

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of North Texas

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Nielsen, Rodney

Award Amount: $1,818,502

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Computer-Assisted Instruction For Learning and Long-Term Retention Based On Recent Cognitive and Metacognitive Findings

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
University of Maryland, College Park

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wallsten, Thomas

Award Amount: $996,403

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Computer-Based Guided Retrieval Practice for Elementary School Children

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Purdue University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Karpicke, Jeffrey

Award Amount: $1,499,697

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2015 – 6/30/2018)

Title:
Conceptual Analysis and Student Learning in Physics

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Ross, Brian

Award Amount: $1,203,164

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Contextualizing Experimental Design Instruction Within Related Inquiry Activities: The ISP Tutor

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Klahr, David

Award Amount: $1,376,533

Award Period: 3 years (07/01/2017 – 06/30/2020)

Title:
Creating a Usable Environment to Teach Argument Comprehension and Production Skills

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Northern Illinois University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Britt, Anne

Award Amount: $574,931

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Creating Scalable Interventions for Enhancing Student Learning and Performance

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
New York University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Aronson, Joshua

Award Amount: $1,358,111

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Developing a Manual for Test-Enhanced Learning in the Classroom

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
Washington University, St. Louis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Roediger III, Henry

Award Amount: $1,903,829

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Developing a Spatially-enhanced Elementary Curriculum and Teacher Training Series to Improve Science Achievement

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
AnLar

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gagnier, Kristin

Award Amount: $1,398,481

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/17 – 06/30/2021)

Title:
Developing a Teacher-Based Intervention Involving Memory-Relevant Language During Instruction

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Ornstein, Peter A.

Award Amount: $1,199,987

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2012-6/30/2015)

Title:
Developing an Online Tutor to Accelerate High School Vocabulary Learning

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
University of South Carolina

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Adlof, Suzanne

Award Amount: $1,499,996

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2013-6/30/2016)

Title:
Developing and Revising Instructional Activities to Optimize Cognitive Engagement

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Arizona State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Chi, Michelene

Award Amount: $1,456,186

Award Period: 4 years (8/16/2015-8/15/2019)

Title:
Developing Guidelines for Optimizing Levels of Students' Overt Engagement Activities

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
Arizona State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Chi, Michelene

Award Amount: $1,399,212

Award Period: 2011–2014

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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Kent State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Rawson, Katherine

Award Amount: $1,266,796

Award Period: 3 years

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Alibali, Martha W.

Award Amount: $982,736

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Dynamic Support of Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition for Reading (DSCoVAR): An Intelligent Tutoring System

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
University of Michigan

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Collins-Thompson, Kevyn

Award Amount: $1,500,000

Award Period: 3 years (9/1/2014 – 8/31/2017)

Title:
Dynamically Modifying the Learning Trajectories of Novices with Pedagogical Agents

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Southern California

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Beal, Carole

Award Amount: $1,220,822

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Enhancing Learning and Transfer of Science Principles via Category Construction

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kurtz, Kenneth

Award Amount: $754,846

Award Period: 3 Years (7/1/2012-8/31/2015)

Title:
Enhancing Learning by Reducing Distraction

Year: 2022

Name of Institution:
University of Texas, Austin

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mrazek, Michael

Award Amount: $1,997,156

Award Period: 3 years (07/01/2022 – 06/30/2025)

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
City University of New York (CUNY)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Zimmerman, Barry

Award Amount: $482,496

Award Period: 2 years

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mostow, Jack

Award Amount: $1,999,543

Award Period: 4 years

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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Teachers College, Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kuhn, Deanna

Award Amount: $504,034

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Focused Computer Games that Promote Specific Cognitive Skills

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
University of California, Santa Barbara

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mayer, Richard

Award Amount: $1,499,976

Award Period: 3 years (8/1/2015-7/31/2018)

Title:
Fostering Comprehension and Knowledge-Building in Middle-School Struggling Readers

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Caccamise, Donna

Award Amount: $1,694,353

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Fostering Reading Comprehension and Knowledge-Building in Middle-School Students

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Caccamise, Donna

Award Amount: $1,399,857

Award Period: 3 years (08/01/2017 - 07/31/2020)

Title:
From Cognitive Models of Reasoning to Lesson Plans for Inquiry

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Klahr, David

Award Amount: $754,206

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Grounded and Transferable Knowledge of Complex Systems Using Computer Simulations

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Indiana University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Goldstone, Robert

Award Amount: $796,479

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Guided Cognition for Unsupervised Learning

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Fordham University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Whitten, William

Award Amount: $623,390

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Guided Cognition for Unsupervised Learning of Mathematics

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Fordham University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Whitten, William

Award Amount: $889,937

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Harnessing Retrieval Practice to Enhance Learning in Diverse Domains

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of California, San Diego

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Pashler, Harold E.

Award Amount: $1,565,989

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Improving a Natural-Language Tutoring System that Engages Students in Deep Reasoning Dialogues about Physics

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Katz, Sandra

Award Amount: $1,318,110

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Academic Achievement by Teaching Growth Mindsets about Emotion

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Stanford University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gross, James

Award Amount: $1,048,201

Award Period: 2 1/2 years (7/1/12-12/31/14)

Title:
Improving Children's Pure Numerical Estimation

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Siegler, Robert

Award Amount: $851,346

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Children's Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Notre Dame

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McNeil, Nicole

Award Amount: $565,456

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Children’s Numerical Understanding

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Siegler, Robert

Award Amount: $1,184,676

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Conceptual Knowledge in Upper Elementary Science with Scaffolded Sketch-Based Modeling

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
North Carolina State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Lester, James

Award Amount: $1,993,601

Award Period: 4 years (08/01/2021 – 07/31/2025)

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Boise State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Thiede, Keith

Award Amount: $1,837,208

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Improving Science Learning Through Tutorial Dialogs

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Boulder Language Technologies Inc.

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Ward, Wayne

Award Amount: $3,114,275

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Improving Students' Skill at Solving Equations Through Better Encoding of Algebraic Concepts

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Temple University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Booth, Julie

Award Amount: $1,044,326

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving the Assessment Capability of Standardized Tests: How High-Stakes Testing Environments Compromise Performance

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Chicago

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Beilock, Sian

Award Amount: $427,786

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Increasing Vocabulary in Preschoolers: Using Cognitive Science to Guide Pedagogy

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Dickinson, David

Award Amount: $1,691,934

Award Period: 3 years

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of California, Los Angeles

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kellman, Philip

Award Amount: $1,500,000

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Interleaved Mathematics Practice

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of South Florida

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Rohrer, Douglas

Award Amount: $901,694

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Introducing Desirable Difficulties for Educational Applications in Science

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
University of California, Los Angeles

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Bjork, Robert

Award Amount: $496,884

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Language for Reading: Building Vocabulary Through Engaged Learning

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Temple University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn

Award Amount: $1,498,679

Award Period: 3 years (8/1/2015 – 7/31/2018)

Title:
Learning from Errors

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Metcalfe, Janet

Award Amount: $1,496,369

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2015 – 6/30/2018)

Title:
Learning the Visual Structure of Algebra Through Dynamic Interactions with Notation

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Richmond

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Landy, David

Award Amount: $1,117,614

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Leveraging Technology to Improve Children's Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
WestEd

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Davenport, Jodi

Award Amount: $1,999,996

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2021 – 06/30/2025)

Title:
Linking Dialogue and Student Modeling to Create an Enhanced Micro-adaptive Tutoring System

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Katz, Sandra

Award Amount: $1,488,866

Award Period: 3 years (9/1/2015-8/31/2018)

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of Washington

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McCutchen, Deborah

Award Amount: $834,155

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Making Sense of Concrete Models for Mathematics

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Michigan State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mix, Kelly

Award Amount: $1,319,945

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Making Space in Science Instruction: Developing the SPACE-IT Program to Foster Students' Spatial Thinking Skills and Science Achievement

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
AnLar

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gagnier, Kristin

Award Amount: $1,998,794

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2021 – 06/30/2025)

Title:
Optimizing AI-Based Tutoring Software for Middle-School Mathematics on Smartphones

Year: 2022

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Aleven, Vincent

Award Amount: $2,000,000

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2022 – 06/30/2026)

Title:
Promoting Executive Function to Enhance Learning in Homeless/Highly Mobile Children

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Minnesota

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Masten, Ann

Award Amount: $1,484,771

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Promoting Transfer of the Control of Variables Strategy in Elementary and Middle School Children via Contextual Framing and Abstraction

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Klahr, David

Award Amount: $1,502,231

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Quality Talk: Developing Students' Discourse to Promote Critical-Analytic Thinking, Epistemic Cognition, and High-Level Comprehension

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
Pennsylvania State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Murphy, P. Karen

Award Amount: $1,230,556

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2013-6/30/2016)

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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Puntambekar, Sadhana

Award Amount: $1,453,848

Award Period: 4 years (9/1/2008 - 8/31/20)

Title:
Scalable Multimedia Mindfulness Training for Youth

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of California, Santa Barbara

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Schooler, Jonathan

Award Amount: $1,379,390

Award Period: 3 years (09/1/2017 – 08/31/2020)

Title:
Scientific Misconceptions: From Cognitive Underpinning to Educational Treatment

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Ohio State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Heckler, Andrew

Award Amount: $933,397

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
SimSelf: A Simulation Environment Designed to Model and Scaffold Learners' Self-Regulation Skills to Optimize Complex Science Learning

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Biswas, Gautam

Award Amount: $1,218,424

Award Period: 3 Years (6/30/2012–5/31/2015)

Title:
Story Talk-Kindergarten: Developing a Cognitive-based Vocabulary Intervention

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
Temple University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wasik, Barbara

Award Amount: $2,000,000

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2021 – 06/30/2025)

Title:
Story Talk: A Cognitive Research-based Vocabulary Intervention for Preschoolers

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
Temple University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wasik, Barbara

Award Amount: $1,500,000

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2014 – 6/30/2017)

Title:
Study Enhancement Based on Principles of Cognitive Science

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Metcalfe, Janet

Award Amount: $609,824

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Supporting Efficient and Durable Student Learning

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Kent State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Dunlosky, John

Award Amount: $879,668

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Teaching the Crosscutting Concept of Emergent Cause-and-Effect to Overcome Misconceptions

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Arizona State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Chi, Michelene

Award Amount: $1,456,431

Award Period: 4 years (8/16/2015 – 8/15/2019)

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of Kentucky

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Lorch, Elizabeth

Award Amount: $1,140,201

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Test-enhanced Learning

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Washington University, St. Louis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Roediger III, Henry

Award Amount: $438,098

Award Period: 3 years

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Metcalfe, Janet

Award Amount: $835,709

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
The Effects of Arts-Integration on Retention of Content and Student Engagement

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Johns Hopkins University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Hardiman, Mariale

Award Amount: $687,690

Award Period: 2 years (7/1/2012-6/30/2014)

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Ohio State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Sloutsky, Vladimir

Award Amount: $1,760,669

Award Period: 4 years

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Neville, Helen

Award Amount: $1,800,305

Award Period: 4 years

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

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Klahr, David

Award Amount: $1,485,318

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Training Indexing To Enhance Meaning Extraction In Young Readers

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Glenberg, Arthur

Award Amount: $751,190

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Understanding and Facilitating Symbolic Learning

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Northwestern University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Uttal, David

Award Amount: $958,346

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Understanding Students' Mathematical Competencies: An Exploration of the Impact of Contextualizing Mathematical Problems

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Tufts University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Sternberg, Robert

Award Amount: $749,974

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Use of Machine Learning to Adaptively Select Activity Types and Enhance Student Learning with an Intelligent Tutoring System

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Brunskill, Emma

Award Amount: $1,497,264

Award Period: 3 years (9/1/2013-8/31/2016)

Title:
Using Contrasting Examples to Support Procedural Flexibility and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Harvard University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Star, Jon

Award Amount: $1,014,175

Award Period: 3 years