Office of Educational Research Submitted Proposals – March 2026

Submitted Proposals – March 2026

April 2, 2026

Principal Investigator: Jason Arnold (ETC)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Alachua County Public Schools

Proposal Title: Alachua County Schools Online Professional Learning Courses

Requested Amount: $44,934


Principal Investigator: Yusen Zhai (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Melissa Mariani (SHDOSE); Amber Moss-Lazarczyk (SHDOSE); Ryan Canales (Engineering); Benjamin Lok (Engineering); Sondra Smith (SHDOSE); Laura Shannonhouse (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Association for Counselor Education and Supervision

Proposal Title: Assessing Training Needs and Adoption of AI-Powered Simulation in Counselor Education

Requested Amount: $15,000


Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Daryn Dever (STL); Avery Closser (STL); Eunjin Shin (SHDOSE)

Funding Agency: Digital Promise Global

Proposal Title: Break My AI: A GenAI Stability Dataset and Benchmark Suite for K-12 Formative Assessment

Requested Amount: $214,897


Principal Investigator: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Co-PI: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)

Funding Agency: National Science Foundation

Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Phase I CAMEL-CN: Multimodal Process Data for Studying Strategy, Perception, and Flexibility in Algebra Learning

Requested Amount: $749,409


Principal Investigator: Kristi Cheyney-Collante (Lastinger Center)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: Early Learning Coalition of Southwest Florida

Proposal Title: ELC SWFL Early Childhood 2026 Coaching Certification Program – In Person

Requested Amount: $51,250


Principal Investigator: John Cooley (SESPECS)

Co-PI: N/A

Funding Agency: American Psychological Foundation

Proposal Title: Families Against Bullying: Initial Evaluation of an Online Preventive Intervention

Requested Amount: $20,000


Principal Investigator: Christopher Anthony (SESPECS)

Co-PI: Anthony Botelho (STL)

Funding Agency: Templeton World Foundation

Proposal Title: Multinational Adolescent Polarization Study (MAPS) Planning Grant

Requested Amount: $99,911


Principal Investigator: Carla Fisher (Medicine)

Co-PI: Jason Arnold (ETC); Carma Bylund-Lincoln (Medicine); Joanne Lagmay (Medicine)

Funding Agency: Florida Department of Health (Live Like Bella)

Proposal Title: Supporting Parents Caring for Children with Cancer: Providing Caregiver Communication Skills Support to Reduce Distress and Enhance Care Ability

Requested Amount: $250,000


Principal Investigator: Walter Leite (SHDOSE)

Co-PI: Anthony Botelho (STL); Ling Yiu (Liberal Arts and Sciences)

Funding Agency: Digital Promise Global

Proposal Title: The Storiza Corpus of Early Reader Story Recordings: A Dialect-Inclusive Speech Dataset for Reading Technology Development

Requested Amount: $249,853