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Title:
A Close Inspection of the Academic Language Used by K-3 Students

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
University of South Florida

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Spencer, Trina

Award Amount: $1,323,166

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2018 – 06/30/2022)

Title:
A Comprehensive Measure of Reading Fluency: Uniting and Scaling Accuracy, Rate, and Prosody

Year: 2020

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Nese, Joseph

Award Amount: $1,399,379

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2020 - 06/30/2024)

Title:
A Multi-Part Intervention for Accelerating Vocabulary Acquisition through Inductive Transfer

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
Florida Atlantic University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Romance, Nancy

Award Amount: $1,414,605

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
A one-year follow-up of evidence-based early reading intervention provided by kindergarten and first grade teachers

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Syracuse University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Blachman, Benita

Award Amount: $199,897

Award Period: 2 years

Title:
A Regression Discontinuity Study of the Impact of ALFA Lab on 9th-Graders' Reading Achievement, Motivation, and Reading Frequency

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
Johns Hopkins University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Mac Iver, Douglas

Award Amount: $3,254,543.56

Award Period: 4 years (09/01/2018 - 08/31/2022)

Title:
Academic Language and Writing for Children in Kindergarten to Fourth Grade—A Longitudinal Study

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
University of California, Irvine

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Kim, Young-Suk

Award Amount: $1,600,000

Award Period: 4 years (7/01/2013 – 6/30/2017)

Title:
An Efficacy Follow-Up Study of the Long-Term Effects of Reading Recovery Under the i3 Scale-Up

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of Delaware

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
May, Henry

Award Amount: $1,099,999

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

Title:
An Efficacy Study of Toggle Talk

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of Maryland, College Park

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Edwards, Jan

Award Amount: $3,247,480

Award Period: 4 years (08/01/2017–07/31/2021)

Title:
An Efficacy Trial of Robust Vocabulary Instruction

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Apthorp, Helen

Award Amount: $2,284,149

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Assessing Online Reading Comprehension: The ORCA Project

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Connecticut

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Leu, Donald

Award Amount: $2,813,127

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Assessing Readers Struggling to Comprehend Multiple Sources of Information

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Illinois, Chicago

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Lawless, Kimberly

Award Amount: $1,562,428

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Assessing Reading Comprehension with Verbal Protocols and Latent Semantic Analysis

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Northern Illinois University

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Magliano, Joseph

Award Amount: $1,560,506

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Assessment of Comprehension in Older Struggling Readers

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Boston University

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Waters, Gloria

Award Amount: $1,597,065

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Assessment of Comprehension Skills in Older Struggling Readers

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Boston University

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Waters, Gloria

Award Amount: $1,255,025

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Breakthrough to Literacy in the Chicago Public Schools: A Large Scale Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Reading Comprehension Intervention

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Iowa

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Hurtig, Richard

Award Amount: $5,984,980

Award Period: 5 years

Title:
Catch and Release: Predicting Maintenance of Tier 2 Reading Intervention Effects

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Klingbeil, David

Award Amount: $1,689,125

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

Title:
Child-Instruction Interactions in Reading: Examining Causal Effects of Individualized Instruction in Second and Third Grade

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Connor, Carol M.

Award Amount: $3,000,000

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Coh-Metrix: Automated Cohesion and Coherence Scores to Predict Text Readability and Facilitate Comprehension

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
McNamara, Danielle

Award Amount: $1,477,200

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Writing Interventions for Students in Grades K to 5

Year: 2020

Name of Institution:
Texas State University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Collins, Alyson

Award Amount: $599,953

Award Period: 2 years (8/1/2020 – 7/31/2022)

Title:
Computer Based Assessment System for Reading (CBAS-R): Skills Analysis and Progress Monitoring

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
University of Minnesota

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Christ, Theodore

Award Amount: $1,599,950

Award Period: 4 years (6/1/2012-5/31/2016)

Title:
Content-Based Vocabulary Instruction: Using Cognates to Promote the Vocabulary Development and Reading Comprehension of Native Spanish Speakers

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Arteagoitia, Igone

Award Amount: $1,828,906

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Content-Rich Vocabulary Development to Improve Reading Achievement of Struggling Adolescent Readers

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Stanford University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Goldenberg, Claude

Award Amount: $1,999,939

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Cross-Sectional Examination of Writing Quality in Elementary School Students: An Exploration of an Empirical Based Model of Writing Factors Across Grades 1 to 5

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Costa, Lara-Jeane C.

Award Amount: $1,399,296

Award Period: 3 years (07/01/2019 - 06/30/2022)

Title:
Designing Assessment to Enhance English Literacy Development Among Spanish-Speaking Children in Grades K–3

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Virginia

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Invernizzi, Marcia

Award Amount: $1,599,187

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Developing Contrastive Analysis Techniques for Teaching Academic Classroom English to Young African American English-Speaking Students

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Michigan

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Craig, Holly

Award Amount: $1,533,892

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Developing Internet Comprehension Strategies Among Adolescent Students At Risk to Become Dropouts

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Connecticut

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Leu, Donald

Award Amount: $1,795,477

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Developing Reading Comprehension Assessments Targeting Struggling Readers

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Sabatini, John

Award Amount: $1,572,635

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Developing Theory- and Evidence-based Oral Language Intervention: Integrated Multi-Component Oral Development for Literacy (iMODEL)

Year: 2020

Name of Institution:
University of California, Irvine

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kim, Young-Suk

Award Amount: $1,400,000

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2020 - 06/30/2024)

Title:
Developing Vocabulary in an Automated Reading Tutor

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Mostow, Jack

Award Amount: $2,379,658

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Development and Validation of Online Adaptive Reading Motivation Measures

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Kansas

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Hock, Michael

Award Amount: $1,738,808

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Development of a Curriculum to Teach Writing in Postsecondary Developmental English Composition Classes

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Delaware

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
MacArthur, Charles A.

Award Amount: $877,803

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Development of a Multifaceted, Comprehensive Vocabulary Instructional Program for the Upper Elementary Grades

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Missouri, Columbia

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Baumann, James

Award Amount: $1,779,368

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Development of a Supplemental Instructional Course in Reading and Writing Arguments for Ninth Graders at Risk of Leaving School Before Graduating

Year: 2014

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

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Sheehy, Margaret

Award Amount: $1,413,916

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

Title:
Development of a Web-Based Writing Partner (Strategic Writing Assisted by intelligent tutoring for 5th grade Youth (SWAY)) to Improve Writing Persuasive Essays for 5th Grade Students

Year: 2013

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wijekumar, Kausalai

Award Amount: $1,485,657

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

Title:
Development of an Empirically Based Vocabulary Curriculum for Kindergarten and First Grade Students

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Ciancio, Dennis

Award Amount: $1,105,785

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Development of Integrated Text Level Curricula for Kindergarten Through Second Grade Students

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Tennessee

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Ciancio, Dennis

Award Amount: $1,369,422

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Development of Oral and Silent Reading Fluency and Their Relation with Reading Comprehension in First Through Third Grade Students

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
University of California, Irvine

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Kim, Young-Suk

Award Amount: $1,600,000

Award Period: 4 years (7/01/2012 – 6/31/2016)

Title:
Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension: Development and Validation

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of Houston

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Francis, David

Award Amount: $1,590,077

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Disciplinary Writing Instruction for the Social Studies Classroom: A Path to Adolescent Literacy

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Maryland, College Park

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
De La Paz, Susan

Award Amount: $1,498,632

Award Period: 3 years (7/1/2009-6/30/2012)

Title:
Early ICARE: Early Independent Comprehensive Adaptive Reading Evaluation

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Wise, Barbara

Award Amount: $1,901,977

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Early Language Comprehension Individualized Instruction (ELCII)

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of Minnesota

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kendeou, Panayiota

Award Amount: $1,399,651

Award Period: 3 years (08/29/2017–08/28/2020)

Title:
Effects of a Supplementary Vocabulary Intervention for Students With Limited English Proficiency

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Nelson, J. Ron

Award Amount: $694,884

Award Period: 2 years

Title:
Efficacy and Replication Research on the Intelligent Tutoring System for the Structure Strategy—Rural and Suburban Schools Grades 4, 5, 7, and 8

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Pennsylvania State University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Wijekumar, Kausalai

Award Amount: $2,999,932

Award Period: 4 Years

Title:
Efficacy and Replication Trial of the Individualized Adaptive ITSS with 4th and 5th Grade Students in High Poverty Schools

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Wijekumar, Kausalai

Award Amount: $3,499,570

Award Period: 4 years (8/1/2015 – 7/31/2019)

Title:
Efficacy Evaluation of Zoology One: Kindergarten Research Labs

Year: 2016

Name of Institution:
University of Pennsylvania

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Bowden, Brooks

Award Amount: $3,299,903

Award Period: 3.5 years (7/1/16-12/31/19)

Title:
Efficacy of Rich Vocabulary (RVOC) Instruction for Classrooms

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Washington Research Institute

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Vadasy, Patricia

Award Amount: $1,338,371

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Efficacy of Sound Partners Supplemental Tutoring for ELL Students, Grades K-1

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Washington Research Institute

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Vadasy, Patricia

Award Amount: $1,323,429

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Efficacy of the Core Knowledge Language Arts Read Aloud Program in Kindergarten through Second Grade Classrooms

Year: 2016

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Cabell, Sonia

Award Amount: $3,299,999

Award Period: 5 years (7/1/2016 – 6/30/2021)

Title:
Efficacy Trial of the We-Write Intervention with 4th- and 5th-Grade Students

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Wijekumar, Kausalai

Award Amount: $3,299,952

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2018 - 06/30/2022)

Title:
Embedding Knowledge-Focused Reading Comprehension Strategies in Cumulative Content-Area Instruction in Grades 3-4-5: An Assessment of Immediate, Transfer, and Long-Term Impact on Reading Achievement

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Florida Atlantic University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Romance, Nancy

Award Amount: $749,973

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Evaluating a Multicomponent Reading Intervention Designed to Address the Diverse Needs of Struggling Readers in Late Elementary School

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Compton, Donald

Award Amount: $1,083,163

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Exploration of Automated Writing Strategy Instruction for Adolescent Writings Using The Writing Pal

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Arizona State University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
McNamara, Danielle

Award Amount: $1,600,000

Award Period: 4 years (9/1/2012-8/31/2016)

Title:
Exploration of Writing Instruction for Kindergarten Children

Year: 2016

Name of Institution:
University of Cincinnati

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Guo, Ying

Award Amount: $1,399,191

Award Period: 4 years (7/1/2016-6/30/2020)

Title:
Exploring and Assessing the Development of Students' Argumentation Skills

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Song, Yi

Award Amount: $1,399,578

Award Period: 4 Years (08/01/2019 - 07/30/2023)

Title:
Exploring the Contribution of Social, Cognitive, and Linguistic Factors on the Development of Style Shifting by Young African-American English-speaking Students Learning to Read

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
University of Michigan

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Craig, Holly

Award Amount: $1,172,679.98

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

Title:
Factors Affecting Comprehension by Teens During Online Reading in Science: The FACTORS Project

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of Connecticut

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Rhoads, Christopher

Award Amount: $599,879

Award Period: 2 years (07/01/2017 - 06/30/2019)

Title:
For Argument's Sake: Applying Questioning the Author Techniques to Move from Comprehension to composition of Written Arguments

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Pennsylvania State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Crosson, Amy

Award Amount: $1,495,246

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

Title:
Fostering Reading Engagement in English-Monolingual Students and English Language Learners Through a History Curriculum

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Maryland, College Park

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Taboada Barber, Ana

Award Amount: $1,566,603

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Group Discussions as a Mechanism for Promoting High-Level Comprehension of Text

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
Ohio State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wilkinson, Ian

Award Amount: $786,372

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
ICARE: Independent Comprehensive Adaptive Reading Evaluation System

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Wise, Barbara

Award Amount: $1,661,470

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Identifying Optimal Scoring Metrics and Prompt type for Written Expression Curriculum-Based Measurement

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
University of Houston

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Keller-Margulis, Milena

Award Amount: $1,387,725

Award Period: 3 Years (09/01/19–08/31/22)

Title:
Improving Adolescent Reading Comprehension: A Multi-Strategy Reading Intervention

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Kansas

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Hock, Michael

Award Amount: $1,367,309

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Comprehension And Writing Through Reasoned Argumentation

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Anderson, Richard

Award Amount: $1,499,892

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Comprehension of Struggling Readers: Connecting Cognitive Science and Educational Practice

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Minnesota

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Broek, Paul van den

Award Amount: $1,443,487

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Improving Reading Comprehension for Struggling Readers: Understanding the Roles of Vocabulary Development, Guided Strategy Use, and Spanish Language Supports in a Digital Reading Environment

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Dalton, Bridget

Award Amount: $1,499,185

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Increasing Opportunities-to-Learn in Urban Middle Schools

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Harvard University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Lesaux, Nonie

Award Amount: $640,544

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Instruction Of Reading Comprehension: Cognitive Strategies Or Cognitive Engagement

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Garcia, Georgia

Award Amount: $1,475,400

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Intelligent Tutoring Using The Structure Strategy To Improve Reading Comprehension Of Middle School Students

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Pennsylvania State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Meyer, Bonnie J.F.

Award Amount: $1,170,618

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Investigating the Impact of Classroom Instruction and Literacy Skills on Writing Achievement in First Grade

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Delaware

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Coker, David

Award Amount: $1,496,813

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Investigating Vocabulary Breadth and Depth and Comprehension in English Monolingual and Spanish-English Bilingual Elementary School Students

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Maryland, College Park

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Silverman, Rebecca

Award Amount: $1,400,000

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
iSTART: Interactive Strategy Trainer for Active Reading and Thinking

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Memphis

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McNamara, Danielle

Award Amount: $1,770,514

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Malleable Instructional Factors Associated with Beginning Word Reading

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
Oregon Research Institute

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Vadasy, Patricia

Award Amount: $1,382,994

Award Period: 2 years (07/01/2018 – 06/30/2020)

Title:
Measuring Oral Reading Fluency: Computerized Oral Reading Evaluation (CORE)

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Nese, Joseph

Award Amount: $1,599,289

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

Title:
Measuring Reading Progress in Struggling Adolescents

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Foorman, Barbara

Award Amount: $1,499,743

Award Period: 4 years (3/01/2010-2/28/2014)

Title:
Measuring the Development of Vocabulary and Word Learning to Support Content Area Reading and Learning

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Deane, Paul

Award Amount: $1,599,412

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Measuring Vocabulary with Testlets: A New Tool for Assessment

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Scott, Judith

Award Amount: $2,036,502

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Morphological Awareness Computer Adaptive Testing Project

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Goodwin, Amanda

Award Amount: $1,598,877

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

Title:
Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and Spelling (MATRS)

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of South Carolina

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Apel, Kenn

Award Amount: $1,387,462

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

Title:
Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment Refinement: Achieving Better Discrimination via Experimental Item Types and Adaptive Testing

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Biancarosa, Gina

Award Amount: $1,399,760

Award Period: 3 Years (09/01/2019 - 08/31/2022)

Title:
Multiple-choice Online Cloze Comprehension Assessment (MOCCA): Refining and Validating a Measure of Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Processes During Reading

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Biancarosa, Gina

Award Amount: $1,599,776

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

Title:
National Randomized Controlled Trial Study of SRA/McGraw-Hill Open-Court Reading Program

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
Southwest Educational Development Corporation (SEDL)

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael

Award Amount: $5,302,021

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Origins Of Individual And Developmental Differences In Reading Comprehension

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Wagner, Richard

Award Amount: $794,885

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
PAWS: Efficacy

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
Georgia State University

Goal: Efficacy

Principal Investigator:
Puranik, Cynthia

Award Amount: $3,209,379

Award Period: 5 Years (09/01/2019 - 08/31/2024)

Title:
Peer Assisted Writing Strategies (PAWS)

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Georgia State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Puranik, Cynthia

Award Amount: $1,177,128

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

Title:
Postsecondary Content-Area Reading-Writing Intervention: Development and Determination of Potential Efficacy

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
Teachers College, Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Perin, Dolores

Award Amount: $1,168,758

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Predictors and Subtypes of Reading Disabilities: Implications for Instruction of 'Late Emergers'

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Compton, Donald

Award Amount: $1,346,663

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Print Referencing Efficacy

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Ohio State University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Justice, Laura

Award Amount: $2,626,659

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Project Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Interventions for Struggling Adolescent and Adult Readers and Writers

Year: 2008

Name of Institution:
University of Texas, Austin

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Vaughn, Sharon

Award Amount: $3,000,000

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Project DIMES: Diagnostic Instrument for Morphology of Elementary Students

Year: 2019

Name of Institution:
University of Florida

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Manley, Anne Corinne

Award Amount: $1,290,952

Award Period: 3 years (07/01/2019 - 06/30/2022)

Title:
Project GROW

Year: 2020

Name of Institution:
Southern Methodist University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Al Otaiba, Stephanie

Award Amount: $1,399,721

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2020 - 06/30/2024)

Title:
Project VITAL: Vocabulary Intervention Targeting At-risk Learners

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
University of Connecticut

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Coyne, Michael

Award Amount: $685,623

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Project Words of Oral Reading and Language Development (Project WORLD)

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Gonzalez, Jorge

Award Amount: $1,292,086

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Promoting Reading Comprehension and Learning With Multimodal Science Texts (PRISM)

Year: 2022

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Wijekumar, Kausalai

Award Amount: $1,994,471

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

Title:
Quick Reads Supplementary Tutoring Efficacy and Replication Trials

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Washington Research Institute

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Vadasy, Patricia

Award Amount: $688,980

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Randomized Controlled Trial of the Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy (SKILL) Program for Children who are At-Risk for Language and Literacy Difficulties

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
Utah State University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Gillam, Ronald

Award Amount: $3,299,570

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2017 – 06/30/2021)

Title:
Reader-Specific Lexical Practice For Improved Reading Comprehension

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Carnegie Mellon University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Callan, James

Award Amount: $1,003,526

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Reading Intervention with Spanish-Speaking Students: Maximizing Instructional Effectiveness in English and Spanish

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Baker, Scott

Award Amount: $3,498,216

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Reading RULES in Kindergarten: Development of a Small-Group Intervention to Support Emergent Reading and Writing

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Zucker, Tricia

Award Amount: $1,399,980

Award Period: 3 years (07/01/2018-06/30/2021)

Title:
Reading to learn: Investigating general and domain specific supports in a technology-rich environment with diverse readers learning from informational text

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Dalton, Bridget

Award Amount: $1,499,281

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Research on and With Novel Educational Technologies for Comprehension

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
University of Colorado, Boulder

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Landauer, Thomas

Award Amount: $799,884

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Responding to the National Crisis in Writing: An Efficacy Study of an Elementary Grades Writing Program

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
Education Development Center, Inc.

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Kotula, Andrea

Award Amount: $2,235,330

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Robust Instruction of Academic Vocabulary for Middle School Students

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McKeown, Margaret

Award Amount: $1,685,982

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Scale-up Evaluation of Reading Intervention for First Grade English Learners

Year: 2011

Name of Institution:
University of Houston

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Francis, David

Award Amount: $5,201,997

Award Period: 5 years

Title:
Scaling Up an Assessment-Driven Intervention Using the Internet and Hand-held Computers

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
Florida State University

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Foorman, Barbara

Award Amount: $6,696,257

Award Period: 5 years

Title:
Scaling Up Peer Assisted Learning Strategies to Strengthen Reading Achievement

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Fuchs, Douglas

Award Amount: $5,618,237

Award Period: 5 years

Title:
Scaling-up Effective Intervention for Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Southern Methodist University

Goal: Scale-Up Evaluations

Principal Investigator:
Mathes, Patricia

Award Amount: $5,999,744

Award Period: 5 years

Title:
Sense-Making in the Disciplines: Supporting Reading and Argumentation in Literature and History

Year: 2018

Name of Institution:
Northwestern University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Lee, Carol D.

Award Amount: $1,397,927

Award Period: 4 years (07/01/2018–06/30/2022)

Title:
SRSD+: Development of a Powerful Writing Program for Children in Grades 1 and 2

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
University of California, Irvine

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Kim, Young-Suk

Award Amount: $1,400,000

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

Title:
Strengthening Content Literacy for Struggling High School Readers: Coordinated Lessons and Support Systems for Subject Matter Teachers

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
Johns Hopkins University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McPartland, James

Award Amount: $1,499,322

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing in High School English Language Arts Classrooms

Year: 2010

Name of Institution:
Ohio State University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Newell, George

Award Amount: $979,493

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Teaching Elementary Students To Comprehend Expository Text

Year: 2003

Name of Institution:
Teachers College, Columbia University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Williams, Joanna

Award Amount: $779,623

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Teaching the Vocabulary of Comprehension: A Technology-Enhanced System to Enhance At-Risk 3rd Graders’ Acquisition and Application of Essential Vocabulary

Year: 2014

Name of Institution:
Texas A&M University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Simmons, Deborah

Award Amount: $1,499,930

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

Title:
The ESTRELLAS Project: Electronic Supported Text Research for English Language Learner Academic Success

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
University of Oregon

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Anderson-Inman, Lynne

Award Amount: $1,499,832

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
The Language of Written Argumentation and Explanation: Individual Developmental Trajectories From 4th to 8th Grade

Year: 2017

Name of Institution:
Harvard University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Uccelli, Paola

Award Amount: $595,798

Award Period: 2 years (07/01/2017 to 06/30/2019)

Title:
The Read Aloud Curriculum in First Grade Classrooms: Furthering Our Understanding of Immediate and Long-Term Impacts and Causal Influences

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Pacific Institutes for Research

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Baker, Scott

Award Amount: $2,885,585

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
The Read-Write Cycle: An Integrated Model for Instruction and Assessment of Reading Comprehension Through Reading and Writing in the Disciplines

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of California, Riverside

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Calfee, Robert

Award Amount: $1,549,795

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
The Reading Edge: Development and Evaluation of a High School Cooperative

Year: 2007

Name of Institution:
Success for All Foundation

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Madden, Nancy A.

Award Amount: $1,955,269

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
The Roles of Instruction and Component Skills in Reading Achievement

Year: 2012

Name of Institution:
Georgia State University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Branum-Martin, Lee

Award Amount: $422,549

Award Period: 2 years (9/1/2012-8/31/2014)

Title:
The Scale Up of Promoting Adolescents Comprehension of Text

Year: 2016

Name of Institution:
University of Texas, Austin

Goal: Effectiveness

Principal Investigator:
Roberts, Greg

Award Amount: $3,800,000

Award Period: 5 years (7/1/2016-6/30/2021)

Title:
The Story Read Aloud Project: The Development of an Innovative Instructional Approach to Promote Comprehension and Vocabulary in First Grade Classrooms

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
Pacific Institutes for Research

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Baker, Scott

Award Amount: $1,019,249

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Toward More Meaningful Decisions about Comprehension Instruction

Year: 2004

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
McKeown, Margaret

Award Amount: $1,126,577

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Using Growth Mixture Modeling to Identify Patterns of Early Reading Development and Teacher and Program Correlates for English Learners

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
California State University, Los Angeles

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Hafner, Anne

Award Amount: $88,179

Award Period: 1 year

Title:
Validating Automated Measures of Student Writing and the Student Writing Process to Help Classroom Teachers Implement Formative Assessment Practices

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Goal: Measurement

Principal Investigator:
Mitros, Piotr

Award Amount: $1,999,208

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

Title:
Variations in Procedures to Improve Reading Fluency and Comprehension

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
University of California, Riverside

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
O'Connor, Rollanda

Award Amount: $1,043,775

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Vocabulary and Abstract Language Enhancement (VALE) to Improve Reading Comprehension in English Language Learners

Year: 2005

Name of Institution:
Arizona State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Restrepo, Maria Adelaida

Award Amount: $1,488,273

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Vocabulary Development Through Writing: A Key to Academic Success

Year: 2006

Name of Institution:
University of California, Santa Cruz

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Scott, Judith

Award Amount: $1,402,553

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
What Types of Knowledge Matters for What Types of Comprehension? Exploring the Role of Background Knowledge on Students' Ability to Learn from Multiple Texts

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
O'Reilly, Tenaha

Award Amount: $1,600,000

Award Period: 4 years (9/1/2015 – 8/31/2019)

Title:
Word Generation: An Efficacy Trial

Year: 2009

Name of Institution:
Harvard University

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Snow, Catherine

Award Amount: $2,853,512

Award Period: 4 years

Title:
Word Learning and Comprehension: New Laboratory Approaches and Classroom Studies

Year: 2002

Name of Institution:
University of Pittsburgh

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Perfetti, Charles

Award Amount: $498,903

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Word Learning Strategies: A Program for Upper-Elementary Readers

Year: 2015

Name of Institution:
WestEd

Goal: Efficacy and Replication

Principal Investigator:
Schneider, Steve

Award Amount: $3,497,205

Award Period: 4 years (7/1/2015-6/30/2019)

Title:
Writing Across Levels of Language (WALL) in First Grade

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
University of Delaware

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Coker, David

Award Amount: $1,890,271

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

Title:
Writing Architect: A Web-based Tool for Adapting Writing Instruction to Meet Students' Needs

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
Michigan State University

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Truckenmiller, Adrea

Award Amount: $1,575,024

Award Period: 4 years (07/1/2021 – 06/30/2025)

Title:
Writing Intensive Reading Comprehension: Effects of Comprehension Instruction With and Without Integrated Writing Instruction on Fourth and Fifth Grade Students' Reading Comprehension and Writing Performance

Year: 2004

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

Goal: Development and Innovation

Principal Investigator:
Collins, James

Award Amount: $1,500,000

Award Period: 3 years

Title:
Zoom: Innovative Detailed Examination of Digital vs. Paper Reading

Year: 2021

Name of Institution:
Vanderbilt University

Goal: Exploration

Principal Investigator:
Goodwin, Amanda

Award Amount: $1,700,000

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