University of Pennsylvania
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Increasing Educational Equity Through Culturally Responsive Schooling
This project will develop and validate research-based measures of culturally-responsive schooling. Educators have been working for greater equity for decades, but with few enduring solutions. The stubborn statistics attest to the intransigency of the problem. Black and Latinx students are three times more likely today to attend highly segregated schools than they were less than 25 years ago. Segregated schools have lower test scores and higher drop-out rates. Students of color are less likel...
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R305T210087
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Understanding the Antecedents of STEM Career and Technical Education Coursetaking for High School Students with Learning Disabilities
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether participating in applied STEM career and technical education (AS-CTE) courses in high school is related to students with learning disabilities pursuing and persisting in STEM majors and/or careers. High school AS-CTE courses emphasize the practical applications of academic math and science concepts to job experiences by incorporating "hands on" quantitative reasoning, logic, and problem-solving skills. Although a significant number of stu...
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R324A200233
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Partnering with Early Intervention Providers to Increase Implementation of Parent Coaching for Families of Children with ASD
The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research for improving Part C early intervention (EI) providers' implementation of parent-mediated interventions with families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop knowledge and skills related to parent coaching, mixed-methods research, community-partnered participatory research, and grant writing. Research demonstrates that parent-mediated early interventi...
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R324B180017
Workshop/Training
Data Science Methods for Digital Learning Platforms
This training is an online and asynchronous 16-week program that teaches participants to use both algorithms designed specifically for digital learning platforms and how to effectively apply algorithms developed for more general purposes to digital learning platform data.
Aug 18, 2025
12:00AM - 11:59PM EST
Workshop/Training
IES Methods Training in Cost-Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation
This training provides attendees with the foundational skills to conduct cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses in education in a 5-day workshop.
Jun 02, 2025
12:00AM - 11:59PM EDT
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The Using Generative AI for Reading R&D Center
The Using Generative AI for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading) will investigate how to apply AI innovations, aligned to scientific evidence about reading, to achieve strong, equitable gains for diverse elementary school students, with a specific focus on English learners (ELs). U-GAIN Reading will ask two overarching research questions: (1) How can generative AI improve reading performance for ELs and all students who are not yet reading connected text? (2) How can generative AI improve...
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R305C240040
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IES Methods Training in Cost-Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation
Schools in the U.S. face difficult decisions related to scarce resources for every aspect of schooling including safe facilities, qualified teaching staff, curricula, supplemental support services, and health and wellness staff. Within this context, even modest efficiency gains would be enormously valuable. It is therefore critical for education research to include rigorous economic evaluations to inform decisions about the allocation of resources. This training program will provide educatio...
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R305B240017
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Examining the Relationship Between Individual Characteristics and Self-Regulated Learning Across Multiple OpenStax Courses
In this project, the research team will work with the OpenStax/Kinetic platform team to explore the use of interactive tools like digital highlighters and notetaking tools for digital textbooks - a common type of open education resource in postsecondary education. Students need to be able to actively monitor and judge their progress toward fully understanding the text they are reading. If or when students identify a topic they do not fully comprehend, they must engage in self-regulated learn...
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R305N240049
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Statistical Innovations for Balancing Weight Methods in Education Research
The purpose of this research is to provide new methods for estimating the effects of interventions on students' outcomes when interventions are not assigned at random. These new methods are being developed to prevent statistical bias (systematic under- or over-estimation of a true effect) when there are substantial pre-intervention differences between the students who received the intervention (the treatment group) and those who didn't (the control group). Research in statistics has develope...
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R305D240036
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What Works to Reduce Student Absenteeism? A Systematic Review of the Literature
Even prior to the pandemic, national data suggested that nearly 16 percent of students were chronically absent, leading to significant public concerns about students missing large numbers of school days. These rates have been exacerbated since the COVID-19 pandemic, and chronic absenteeism has increased to 30 percent in some states from the years prior to the pandemic. Given this ongoing and heightened absenteeism crisis, many different interventions have been implemented and evaluated. In t...
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R305U240001
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Adaptive Trial of Parent Empowerment and Coaching in Early Intervention: AT PEACE Study
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of tiered levels of implementation support for the Parent Empowerment and Coaching in Early Intervention (PEACE) toolkit in increasing early intervention (EI) providers' use of caregiver coaching for families of young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Intervention for ASD initiated in earlier ages improves children's long-term cognition, language, behavior, and development. Caregiver-mediated intervention is considered...
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R324A230102
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Data Science Methods for Digital Learning Platforms Training Program
The use of digital learning platforms has grown considerably in recent years. These platforms generate considerable amounts of process data, which show how users are interacting with the content. However, many in the education research community struggle to analyze and extract meaningful knowledge from large-scale process data to inform education practice or policy. This training program will provide education researchers with training on how to effectively apply various algorithms to levera...
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R305B230007
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Statistical Innovations for Clustered Observational Studies
In many observational research settings in education, the treatment is allocated to entire clusters of students, instead of to individual students. These clustered observational studies (COSs) arise when the treatment is applied at the group level (e.g., teachers, classes, or schools) with outcomes of interest measured at the student level. The intervention is not randomized, but it is clustered such that all students within a given cluster are treatment or control students. There is very li...
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R305D210014
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University of Pennsylvania Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-Based Research in Education
The current focus of the training program is to prepare fellows to conduct research to inform education policy in collaborative partnerships with education agencies and research firms and strengthen the education research workforce and improve the quality, accessibility, use, and relevance of evaluations to inform policy and practice.
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R305B200035
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IES Methods Training in Cost Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation
This training program will provide attendees with foundational skills in both cost-effectiveness and economic evaluation.
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R305B200034
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University of Pennsylvania Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences
The University of Pennsylvania established the Predoctoral Training to prepare fellows to design and carry out rigorous field-based research to advance and inform education policy on questions of the impacts and cost effectiveness of various educational policy and leadership practices. Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education
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R305B090015
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Does Applied STEM CTE Strengthen the College and Career Pipeline for Low-Income High School Students?
In this project, the researchers explored whether and how course taking in applied career and technical education (CTE) STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) prepared low-income students for college and careers in STEM or with STEM applications. Given the growth of STEM jobs in the economy, it is important to identify and reduce disparities in access to STEM courses in high school. Unlike traditional academic STEM courses (e.g., math, physics) that focus on abstract, theoretical prob...
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R305A190523
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Efficacy Evaluation of Zoology One: Kindergarten Research Labs
Efficacy Evaluation of Zoology One: Kindergarten Research Labs
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R305A160109
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Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction and Learning (C-SAIL)
The Research and Development Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) will examine the implementation of college- and career-ready standards in 5 states, assess how they are related to student outcomes in 50 states, and test an intervention that supports standards-aligned instruction in 5 states. C-SAIL's launch occurs at a time when states and districts across the country are engaged in a variety of initiatives aimed at implementing college- and career-ready standa...
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R305C150007
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The School District of Philadelphia-Penn Graduate School of Education Researcher-Practitioner Partnership in Education Research
Through this partnership, SDP and Penn GSE worked to build a structured, formalized research alliance between the two organizations. Creating the alliance would build the capacity of both organizations; improve research-to-practice links; enable the study the district's approaches to school reform, and establish a foundation for future, larger scale collaborative impact studies.
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R305H140097
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Penn GSE in Postdoctoral Training Program in the Education Sciences
This program trained five fellows to focus on the effects of leadership and teaching on student achievement. The program targeting three main areas: theory, research design and methods, and fieldwork.
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R305B100013
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A Longitudinal Study of International Baccalaureate Students: Postsecondary Education Access, Performance, and Persistence
Despite a lack of scientifically based research, credit-based transition programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP), and dual enrollment programs in which high school students earn both high school and college-level credit for taking a college level course have become very popular as a means to increase the rigor of high school course offerings and improve the curricular alignment between high school and college. The purpose of this research is to examine the ...
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R305A090049
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School Responses to AYP Classification Due to Student Subgroups and the Relationship to Student Achievement
This study examines how school leaders respond to the designation of not meeting AYP, what reforms (if any) are introduced into schools as a result, and the relationship of student performance to the designation and subsequent reforms.
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R305A080280
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Efficacy and Sustainability of the STAR Program
The number of children with autism spectrum disorder served in the US public education system has risen an average of 16% each year over the last decade. The education system has struggled to serve students with autism effectively because of the limited number of interventions that have demonstrated efficacy in classroom settings with a diversity of children and teachers. Furthermore, very little research has examined whether and how efficacious interventions can be successfully implemented ...
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R324A080195
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Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS): An Evidence-Based System for Enhancing Educational Proficiency and Social Adjustment
This research project is designed to examine what, how, when, and where early biological and social risk factors impede the development of educational competencies for an entire population of third-grade students in a large, economically distressed urban city. The project will also test the utility of the Kids Integrated Data System (KIDS), which merges administrative data from children's birth records, physical and mental health service utilization records, Medicaid eligibility, homelessnes...
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Award number:
R305A080309
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The Development and Validation of the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education
In this project, the researchers proposed to continue the development and validation of the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED), an assessment instrument of the effectiveness of principal leadership behaviors. In the early 2000s, VAL-ED had an evidenced-based rating scale that assesses principals' behaviors known to directly influence teachers' performance and, in turn, students' learning. This project aimed to build upon that initial work.
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R305A080370
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University of Pennsylvania Pre-doctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education
The University of Pennsylvania's Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education emphasized field-based, multi-disciplinary research, including randomized controlled trials of educational interventions and innovations.
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R305C050041
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Assessing the Impact of Principals' Professional Development: An Evaluation of the National Institute for School Leadership
In this project, the researchers proposed to evaluate impact of the National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) on principals' knowledge and practice. NISL was a district-level strategy for improving student achievement by developing principals. The researchers aimed to address the following research questions:
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305E040085
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Andrew Porter
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