Principal Investigator: Larisa Olesova (STL)
Co-PI: Gloria Kim (Engineering)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Advancing Student Success Through Human AI Collaborative Feedback to Strengthen Cognitive Presence and Shared Metacognition Online
Requested Amount: $499,708
Principal Investigator: Darbianne Shannon (AZCEECS)
Co-PI: Anne Manley (SHDOSE); Crystal Bishop (AZCEECS); Christine Meyers (Public Health); Kristen Lewandowski (Public Health)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Bridging Disciplines for Inclusion: Understanding Factors Shaping Collaboration in Early Childhood
Requested Amount: $372,405
Principal Investigator: Katherine Lindsay Byron (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Calculus Calculation: A Comparison of the Merit Aid Implications of Advanced Placement vs. Dual Enrollment Calculus Course Options
Requested Amount: $348,401
Principal Investigator: Julie Brown (STL)
Co-PI: Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction for Multilingual Learners in Biology (CLIMB)
Requested Amount: $497,659
Principal Investigator: Richard Carlos Velasco (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Exploring STEM Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Teaching Data Literacy Using a Custom GPT
Requested Amount: $460,773
Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Exploring the Ecological Validity of LLMs for Content Generation
Requested Amount: $483,902
Principal Investigator: Swapna Kumar (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Boise State University
Proposal Title: From Assessment to Action: Strengthening Mentoring in Online Doctoral Education
Requested Amount: $66,533
Principal Investigator: Avery Closser (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Proposal Title: From Sight to Insights: Examining Effects of Perceptual Cues on Students Mathematical Reasoning and Learning
Requested Amount: $5,925
Principal Investigator: Wei Li (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Katherine Strickland (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Proposal Title: Interpretable Teacher Engagement Profiles and Causal Effects in Math Matrix Micro-Credentials
Requested Amount: $19,754
Principal Investigator: Catherine Corbin (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Megan Worth (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Investigating Educators’ Emotion Regulation Strategy Use as a Target to Improve Instructional Quality and Discipline Disproportionality
Requested Amount: $408,272
Principal Investigator: F. “Chris” Curran
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Lost Time or Turning Point? Understanding the Suspension Period and Students Transitions Back to School
Requested Amount: $346,183
Principal Investigator: Wei Li (SHODSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Proposal Title: Methods and Tools for Designing, Analyzing, and Reporting Multilevel Cost-Effectiveness Studies
Requested Amount: $66,318
Principal Investigator: Nicholas Vest (STL)
Co-PI: Xintian Gao (STL); Avery Closser (STL)
Funding Agency: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Proposal Title: Misconception Trajectories as Early Indicators of Mathematics Risk: Testing the Predictive Value of Feature-Engineered Cognitive Error Patterns in EdLight
Requested Amount: $49,999
Principal Investigator: Kakali Bhattacharya (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Navigating the Messy Middle: AI Integration in Educational Research Via Qualitative Inquiry
Requested Amount: $368,189
Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Hannah Mathews (SESPECS), Christopher Thomas (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Patrolling the Right to Teach: How State Education Agencies Interpret and Enforce Teacher Professional Conduct
Requested Amount: $249,375
Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Stephanie Snidarich (SHDOSE); Angelos Barmpoutis (Digital World); Tracy Centanni (Public Health)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Project InSPIRE – Intelligent Support for Personalized Individual Reading Experiences
Requested Amount: $996,346
Principal Investigator: Elliot Douglas (Engineering)
Co-PI: David Therriault (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Research: Exploring Engineering Ambiguity Categories: Novice and Expert Responses to Problem Ambiguity
Requested Amount: $448,086
Principal Investigator: Christopher Redding (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Melinda Leko (SESPECS)
Funding Agency: Boston University
Proposal Title: Special Education Research and Development Center Program
Requested Amount: $17,501
Principal Investigator: Rob Moore (STL)
Co-PI: Kent Crippen (STL); Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: Strengthening Trust in STEM Microcredentials: A Theory-Informed Framework for Credential Quality and Adoption
Requested Amount: $500,000
Principal Investigator: Brady Nash (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Spencer Foundation
Proposal Title: The Borderzones Digital Literacy Collective: A School, University, and Youth Partnership to Develop Culturally Sustaining Digital Literacy Curricula in the Age of Algorithms and AI
Requested Amount: $249,869
Principal Investigator: Kathryn Chapman (SESPECS)
Co-PI: Ketia Blanc (IFAS)
Funding Agency: Strengthening Future Families
Proposal Title: The Parental Experiences of U.S. Military Mothers
Requested Amount: $37,890
Principal Investigator: Sooji Kim (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Maryland College Park
Proposal Title: Universal FAFSA as a Policy Lever to Reduce Financial Barriers to Higher Education
Requested Amount: $168,108
Principal Investigator: Jue Wu (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Temple University
Proposal Title: Where do they go? A longitudinal qualitative study of graduating high school women interested in computing
Requested Amount: $103,938
Principal Investigator: David Julian (Medicine)
Co-PI: Alicia Vose (Neurology); Jue Wu (SHDOSE); Ludmila Barbosa De Faria (Medicine)
Funding Agency: Florida State College at Jacksonville
Proposal Title: BURT
Requested Amount: $1,892,604