The U.S. Department of Education (U.S. ED) has invested $279 million in STEM discretionary grant funds in Fiscal Year 2018.
The U.S. ED’s efforts to support STEM education through the STEM discretionary grant priority include funding for the following programs:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) have jointly issued the Companion Guidelines on Replication and Reproducibility in Education Research (2018), a supplement to the 2013 Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development
The 2013 document Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development describes the six genres of NSF- and IES-funded research that generate evidence for strategies and interventions to increase student learning: foundational, early-stage or exploratory, design and development, efficacy, effectiveness, and scale-up.
The 2018 document Companion Guidelines on Replication and Reproducibility in Education Research focuses on the importance of replication and reproducibility of research and provides guidance on steps researchers can take to promote corroboration and build the evidence base.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released a revised Grants Policy Statement that applies to all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after October 1, 2018.
This revised version does not introduce new policies, but it does incorporate all policy changes or updates made throughout the previous year and includes significant enhancements to improve the user interface, navigation, and search.
Read the full announcement for details: Publication of the Revised NIH Grants Policy Statement (Rev. October 2018) for FY 2019
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) will host a free webinar on how WWC resources can support the use of high-quality research evidence in decision making.
December 12, 2018
2:00–3:00 p.m. EST
Register here
If you cannot attend the live event, a recording of the webinar will be available online.
The webinar will cover the following topics:
Effective immediately, the university will require college- or director-level approval on requests for non-PI eligible individuals to be the Award PI on non-mentored university sponsored programs.
The eligible classes and the process to request eligibility in UFIRST are detailed at https://research.ufl.edu/dsp/proposals/eligibility-to-submit-a-proposal-for-external-funding.html
Congratulations to Alice Kaye Emery for her award from the Florida Department of Education; Justin Ortagus for his award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Philip Poekert for his awards from Study Edge; and Patricia Snyder for her subcontract award IES Flow Through from Temple University.
For more details, see the Awarded Projects table.
Best wishes to Maya Israel for her subcontract proposal Robin Hood Foundation Flow Through from the Education Development Center; Herman Knopf and Mildred Maldonado-Molina for their subcontract proposal DHHS Flow Through from Florida’s Office of Early Learning; Mark Pacheco for his subcontract proposal Spencer Foundation Flow Through from Vanderbilt University; Philip Poekert for his subcontract proposal DHHS Flow Through from Florida’s Office of Early Learning; Philip Poekert for his subcontract proposal Helios Education Foundation Flow Through from the UF Foundation; Brian Reichow and Patricia Snyder for their proposal to the National Institutes of Health; and Albert Ritzhaupt for his proposal to the National Science Foundation.
For more details, see the Submitted Projects table.
The College of Education is allowed to submit three (3) proposals to the university-level for this competition. To participate in the college’s internal review and selection of proposals to move forward, submit your proposal (in a single file) to research@coe.ufl.edu at or before 5 pm January 7, 2019.
UF is now among the organizations whose members’ credentials can be used for logging on to https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov and https://research.gov.
Additionally, UF IT has recently enabled a new login feature for the Fastlane/Research.gov electronic systems. This new login feature—called InCommon—is now available for use for UF staff and faculty that have both GatorLink credentials and NSF Single Sign On credentials.
The plenary sessions for the upcoming National Science Foundation (NSF) Fall 2018 Grants Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 8–9, 2018 will be webcast live to the research community.
There is no cost or limit for participants to view the live stream.
Please see the Fall 2018 Grants Conference Webcast page for more information and to register. Read more →
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 19-1). The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 28, 2019.
A webinar to brief the community on the new PAPPG will be held on November 27 at 2 pm EST. For additional information about the webinar, including how to register for it, visit: https://nsfgrantsconferences.com/pappg-webinar-19/
Significant changes in the new PAPPG include the following:
The National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) in the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), in conjunction with the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, has announced a research training workshop on developing and evaluating adaptive interventions with a focus on sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs).
When: March 11-14, 2019
Where: Ann Arbor, Michigan
All applications must be received no later than December 16, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.
Reprinted from Message from IES Director
A while ago, I wrote to say that IES was working on developing research quality standards inspired by the famous LEED building standards. Our goal in developing these standards is to identify the domains and the core questions that, from the IES perspective, constitute the most important dimensions of high quality education research.
Paralleling LEED procedures, we intend to create tiers of excellence (Platinum, Gold, etc.). These award levels will be appearing on the What Works Clearinghouse. It is important to remember that these levels will be in addition to the evidence standards that make the WWC so crucially important.
Several new features have been added in the new version of the Grants.gov Mobile App.
You can download the Grants.gov app today for iOS and Android devices.
Some of the new features include the following:
ResearchVault (ResVault) is UF’s secure computing environment for scientists and collaborators to conduct research on restricted and confidential data.
The system is modeled on a bank vault where you receive the following:
A secure area within the vault to privately access your valuables
