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Title:
Adapting Lesson Study for Developmental Mathematics Instruction

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
Teachers College, Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Edgecombe, Nicole

Award Amount: $1,400,000

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2017–06/20/2021)

Title:
Bootstrapping Achievement and Motivation in STEM: An Integrated Cognitive-Motivational Intervention to Improve Biology Grades

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
Temple University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Cromley, Jennifer

Award Amount: $1,379,250

Award Period: 4 years (8/1/2014-7/31/2018)

Title:
Developing a Context-Integrated Mindset / Belonging Intervention to Eliminate Demographic-based Underperformance in Challenging Large Lecture Undergraduate Courses

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Binning, Kevin R.

Award Amount: $1,999,659

Award Period: 4 years (09/01/2021 – 08/31/2025)

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Correctional Education Association (CEA)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Steurer, Stephen

Award Amount: $1,997,936

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Developing and Implementing a Technology-Based Reading Comprehension Instruction System for Adult Literacy Students

Year: 2020

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Sabatini, John

Award Amount: $1,399,882

Award Period: 4 years (09/01/2020 – 08/31/2024)

Title:
Development of College- and Employer-based Career Pathways Models that Build on the Year Up Program Logic

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Abt Associates, Inc.

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Fein, David

Award Amount: $1,499,246

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2015-06/30/2019)

Title:
Enhancing Undergraduate STEM Education by Integrating Mobile Learning Technologies with Natural Language Processing

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
Purdue University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Menekse, Muhsin

Award Amount: $1,398,642

Award Period: 4 years (08/15/2018 - 08/14/2022)

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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Sacerdote, Bruce

Award Amount: $918,274

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
iCODE: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Code Comprehension Processes to Improve Learning, Engagement, and Retention

Year: 2022

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Rus, Vasile

Award Amount: $1,999,598

Award Period: 3 years (09/01/2022 - 08/31/2025)

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

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Kansas

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mellard, Daryl

Award Amount: $1,991,961

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Making the Connection: Engaging and Retaining Young Adults in Postsecondary Education

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Minnesota

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Johnson, David

Award Amount: $727,237

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Project Families4College (F4C)

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
University of Houston

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gonzalez, Jorge

Award Amount: $1,467,208

Award Period: 3 years (6/1/2013-5/31/2016)

Title:
Strategizing for College: A Game-based Approach to Increasing College Access

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Southern California

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Tierney, William

Award Amount: $1,464,509

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Teaching and Learning 21st Century Skills in Community Colleges: A Study of the New World of Work Program

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
MDRC

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Dalporto, Hannah

Award Amount: $1,288,806

Award Period: 4 years (7/1/2017–6/30/2021)

Title:
Using Adaptive Practice to Improve Recall and Understanding in Postsecondary Anatomy and Physiology

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Pavlik Jr., Philip

Award Amount: $1,240,151

Award Period: 3 Years (07/01/2019 – 06/30/2022)

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

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
MPR Associates, Inc.

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Levesque, Karen

Award Amount: $1,499,889

Award Period: 3 years