In this announcement, the Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) invites applications for its Postdoctoral Research Training grant program and its Predoctoral Research Training in the Education Sciences grant program. The Institute only funds institutions interested in developing a research training program, and does not directly fund individuals seeking predoctoral or postdoctoral support.
The Institute’s objectives in creating the Postdoctoral Research Training Program in the Education Sciences are to support the training of postdoctoral fellows interested in conducting applied education research and to produce a cadre of education researchers willing and able to conduct a new generation of methodologically rigorous and educationally relevant scientific research that will provide solutions to our nation's most pressing problems and challenges in education.
The Institute’s objective in creating Predoctoral Research Training in the Education Sciences grant program is to increase the supply of scientists and researchers in education who are prepared to conduct rigorous evaluation studies, develop and evaluate new products and approaches that are grounded in a science of learning, design and validate tests and measures, and address applied education research problems utilizing sophisticated statistical methods to analyze data. To meet this objective, the Institute will fund interdisciplinary graduate research training programs in the education sciences. The Institute's primary purpose for this program is to train graduate students to conduct the type of research that the Institute funds.
