Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – March 2025

Submitted Proposals – March 2025

April 4, 2025

 

Principal Investigator: Carla Brisotto

Co-PI: Jonathan Mundorf (PKY), Savanna Barry, Jeffrey Carney, Michelle Lefebvre, Jamie Loizzo, Jason Von Meding

Funding Agency: National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Proposal Title: GatorCorps Resilience Education Program: Building Tomorrow’s Resilience Today

Requested Amount: $749,292


Principal Investigator: Taryrn Brown (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: American Education Research Association

Proposal Title: AERA READY Award

Requested Amount: $1,000


Principal Investigator: Taryrn Brown (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: American Education Research Association

Proposal Title: AERA READY – Supplemental Funds

Requested Amount: $500


Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Charlotte County School District

Proposal Title: Charlotte Co SG Literacy Instruction PL 2025-26 (40 Participants)

Requested Amount: $120,000


Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Charlotte County School District

Proposal Title: Charlotte Co SG Literacy Instruction PL 2025-26 (50 Participants)

Requested Amount: $125,000


Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Sarasota County

Proposal Title: Sarasota County Schools SG PL 2024-27

Requested Amount: $42,000


Principal Investigator: Tyran Butler (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: School District of Manatee County

Proposal Title: Manatee County Accelerating Literacy Achievement 2025 Supplement

Requested Amount: $6,001


Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)

Co-PI: Daryn Dever (STL)

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Exploring Khan Academy’s Role in Mathematics Learning in a Post-Pandemic Landscape

Requested Amount: $49,129


Principal Investigator: Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: School Board of Seminole County

Proposal Title: SCPS K-12 Coaching 2025-26

Requested Amount: $37,500


Principal Investigator: Daryn Dever (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Panacea Interactive LLC (Subcontract – National Institutes of Health Flow Through)

Proposal Title: Mnemonic-Based Digital Platform for Improved Health Literacy Amount Secondary Students

Requested Amount: $22,030


Principal Investigator: Zhihui Fang (STL)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Making Mathematics Comprehensible Through Online Video Lectures: Exploring the Impact of Teacher Discourse Styles on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes

Requested Amount: $50,001


Principal Investigator: Angela Kohnen (STL)

Co-PI: Kara Dawson (STL), Gabriel Lee (PKY), Christine Wusylko (STL), Lauren Weisberg, Andrea Ramirez Salgado

Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation

Proposal Title: Reimagining Media Literacy Education for an AI-Driven Ecosystem

Requested Amount: $74,573


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Bryan Keller, Jee-Seon Kim

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Project DESIGN-QOS: Design, Evaluation, and Statistics for Innovative Guidance in Quasi-experiments and Observational Studies

Requested Amount: $793,535


Principal Investigator: Wei Li (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Extending Causal Inference Methods to Learning Analytics: A Methodological Comparison and Empirical Application to Evaluating Teacher Engagement in Digital Learning Platforms

Requested Amount: $49,677


Principal Investigator: Wallace Pinto Junior (SHDOSE), Mentor: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: Optimizing Teacher Engagement and Learning in Online Professional Development: A Data-Driven Analysis of the Math Matrix Program

Requested Amount: $47,182


Principal Investigator: Ryan Sharston

Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Bahar Armaghani, Hassan Azad, Mary Koroly

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Transforming the Pedagogical Model of Environmental Technology Education in Architecture Using the Principles of Sustainability & Resilience

Requested Amount: $500,000


Principal Investigator: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL), Zandra De Araujo (Lastinger Center), Walter Leite (STL)

Funding Agency: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Proposal Title: An Exploration of Optimal Hint Usage: A Reinforcement-based Approach to Optimize the Hint Level

Requested Amount: $249,941


Principal Investigator: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Institute of Education Sciences

Proposal Title: Improving AI Methods for Automated Observation Ratings with Bi-Encoders

Requested Amount: $393,483