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This list, organized by funding source, provides a snapshot of active research funding to College of Education faculty members during the most recent academic year. Some figures represent projected multi-year amounts. *No longer at Michigan State University.
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Agency for International Development (USAID)
Global Center for Food Systems Innovation$5,000,000
Reitumetse Mabokela & Ajit Srivastava
2012-2017
HED Rwanda
$1,280,000
Reitumetse Mabokela
2012-2015
American Educational Research Association
RU Connected? A Collaborative Project Between University Literacy Researchers and an Urban afterschool Program (Racquet Up Detroit) to Develop and Study a Summer Technology Camp for Middle School Youth Developing New Literacies Skills$4,979
Susan Florio-Ruane
2013-2014
Survey of AERA Member Attitudes and Use of the Internet and Social Media for Communication, Professional Development and Scholarship
$7,000.00
Christine Greenhow
2012-2013
Azim Premji Foundation
Statement of Work for Proposed Contract with Azim Premji Foundation$400,0000
Punya Mishra
2011-2014
Broad Foundation
The Broad Partnership Between Michigan State University College of Education and Detroit Public School.$6,000,000
Sonya Gunnings-Moton & Carole Ames*
2003-2017
The College Board
The College Board Research Fellowship Program - Xuechun Zhou$18,500
Mark Reckase
2011-2012
The Education Trust
Floden General Research$1,688
Robert Floden
2012-2015
Educational Testing Service
ETS Research Agreement$300,000
Suzanne Wilson
2013
Ford Foundation
Detroit Schools-Higher Education Consortium Planning/Initial Inquiry Request for Proposals, Ford Funding$33,479
Sonya Gunnings-Moton & Dorothea Anagnostopoulos*
2013
Research Partnership with the Covenant House Academies in Detroit
$35,000
Kristy Cooper, Dorinda Carter Andrews & Terry Flennaugh
2013-2014
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
College Connect: College Knowledge Challenge Grant$100,000
Christine Greenhow
2013-2014
Support Teachers Implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
$650,000
William Schmidt
2012-2013
General Electric Foundation
Assisting Teachers in Aligning Instruction to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics$837,812
William Schmidt
2012-2013
Common Core Implementation Research Center
$1,000,000
William Schmidt
2012-2013
GEF Supported School Districts CCSSM Implementation
$193,013
William Schmidt
2012-2013
Health Resources and Services Administration
Perceived Social Support and Athletes' Resilience Following Athletic Injury$99,247
Tracey Covassin
2007-2012
Leona M. & Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative$162,725
James Fairweather
2012-2014
International Olympic Committee
Entourage Role on Development and Termination of an Athletic Career: A Process Not an Event$16,281
Deborah Feltz
2013
Jacobs Foundation
Phase II of the Jacobs Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program$64,800
Barbara Schneider
2012-2013
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Woodrow Wilson Michigan Teaching Fellowship Program at Michigan State University$500,000
Gail Richmond
2010-2015
Lansing Community College
Athletic Training Services for Lansing Community College$87,052
John Powell
2012-2015
Michigan Department of Community Health
Assessment of Functioning Benchmark Project$57,484
John Carlson
2012-2013
Wraparound Evaluation Project 2011-2012
John Carlson
$129,017
2011-2012
Michigan Department of Education
Coaching 101 and Schoolwide System of Support - Intervention Specialists and District Improvement Facilitators$7,000,000
Barbara Markle
2012-2013
Coaching 101 - Year 2
$1,700,000
Barbara Markle
2011-2012
Michigan Principals Fellowship and Coaches Institute - Year 2
$4,500,000
Barbara Markle
2011-2012
Michigan State University Research Proposal for Formative Assessment Research for MDE
$196,250
Edward Roeber* & Amelia Wenk Gotwals
2011-2012
MSU Research on the Formative Assessment Practices of Michigan Educators, 2012-13
$199,367
Amelia Wenk Gotwals
2012-2013
Project WRITE II (Writing, Reading, Inquiry & Technology Education)
$161,066
Samantha Caughlan
2013-2014
Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth
Project Excellence 2011-12$2,168,745
Michael Leahy
2008-2012
Project Excellence 2012-13
$438,080
Michael Leahy
2012-2013
MSU Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) Development
In the MomentE. David Wong
$24,553
2011-2013
NASA
Cyber Partners: Harnessing Group Dynamics to Boost Motivation for More Efficient Exercise$1,190,655
Deborah Feltz & James Pivarnik
2013-2016
National Academy of Education
Differential Effects of Instruction on Achievement$25,000
Elizabeth Covay
2013-2014
The Impact of Contract-Teachers on Student Learning in Developing Countries: A Multi-level, Multi-country Analysis
$55,000
Amita Chudgar
2011-2012
National Council of State Boards of Nursing
Using Response Time to Detect Item Pre-knowledge and Increase Measurement Efficiency in Computerized Adaptive Tests$46,500
Mark Reckase
2012-2013
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Meta-Analysis of Family-Based Prevention Programs for Adolescent Substance Abuse$62,832
Cary Roseth
2012-2014
National Institutes of Health
Life-Course Energy Balance and Breast Cancer Risk in Black/White Women under 50$16,889,208
Richard Houang
2010-2015
National Office of Chinese Language Council International
Establishment of the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University$810,000
Richard Prawat
2012-2016
National Security Agency
Learning to Teach Chinese from Best Practices$85,105
Wenxia Wang & Jeffrey Bale
2013-2014
National Science Foundation
CAREER: Constructing Coherence: Elementary Teachers' Strategies for Using Standards-based Mathematics Curriculum Materials$119,367
Corey Drake
2011-2012
CAREER: Reciprocal Noticing: Latino/a Students and Teachers Constructing Common Resources in Mathematics
$411,076
Higinio Dominguez
2013-2018
CCE: A Learning Progression-based System for Promoting Understanding of Carbon-transforming Processes
$3,499,626
Charles Anderson
2010-2015
Cases of Reasoning and Proving for Secondary Mathematics
$178,790
Michael Steele
2007-2012
Center for Advancing Research and Communication in Science; Technology; Engineering; and Mathematics (ARC)
$896,156
Barbara Schneider
2011-2012
Changing Curriculum, Changing Practice
$366,774
Michael Steele
2010-2014
The CIRTL Network: 25 Research Universities Preparing a National Faculty to Advance STEM Undergraduate Learning
$2,842,242
James Fairweather & Ann Austin
2012-2017
The CIRTL Network: Shaping; Connecting; and Supporting the Future National STEM Faculty
$771,020
Ann Austin
2008-2012
Cluster Randomized Trial of the Efficacy of Early Childhood Science Education for Low-Income Children
$2,918,640
Christina Schwarz
2011-2016
Collaborative Research: BeSocratic: A Free-form, Interactive System to Investigate the Development of Representational Competence
$416,504
Melanie Cooper
2013-2014
Collaborative Research: Cognitive Processes - Classroom Practices that Lead to Student Proficiency with Word Problems in Algebra
$506,588
Robert Floden
2009-2012
Collaborative Research: Improving General Biology Teaching with Diagnostic Question Clusters and Active Teaching
$206,264
Charles Anderson & Amelia Wenk Gotwals
2009-2012
Collaborative Research: Learning About New Demands in Schools: Considering Algebra Policy Environments (LANDSCAPE)
$874,734
Beth Herbel-Eisenmann & Michael Steele
2011-2014
CPACE II Implementing Constituency-driven Curricular Change that Integrates Computational Thinking Across Engineering Disciplines
$799,796
James Fairweather
2009-2012
"Culture in the Mathematics Classroom" MATH TLC Supplemental Grant Proposal
$60,694
Tonya Bartell
2012-2013
Culturally Relevant Ecology; Learning Progressions and Environmentally Literacy
$2,067,091
Charles Anderson
2008-2013
Culturally Relevant Ecology; Learning Progressions and Environmentally Literacy
$67,126
Charles Anderson
2012-2014
Designing an Integrated Framework for Genetics Education to Develop Innovative Curricula and Assessments
$2,609,096
Michelle Williams
2011-2016
Developing and Testing a Model to Support Student Understanding of the Sub-Microscopic Interactions that Govern Biological and Chemical Processes
$2,631,202
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2015
EAGER: Improving Understandings of Student Engagement in STEM to Enhance Teacher Education and Classroom Instruction: An International Collaboration
$299,766
Barbara Schneider
2012-2014
Early Childhood Education in the Context of Mathematics, Science, and Literacy
$465,312
Nell Duke*
2010-2014
Early Childhood Education in the Context of Mathematics, Science, and Literacy
$123,778
Robert Floden
2012-2014
Efficacy Study of Project-Based Inquiry Science (PBIS)
$186,323.00
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2015
ERGO: Developing Principles for Curriculum Ergonomics in the Common Core Era
$425,433
Corey Drake
2012-2016
The First Five Years of Mathematics Teaching
$2,162,274
Maria Teresa Tatto, John Schwille, Mark Reckase, Sandra Crespo, Raven McCrory, Tenko Raykov & Amita Chudgar
2009-2013
Formal-Informal Collaborations to Increase Science Literacy, Improve Student Learning, and Prepare Students for the Workforce
$1,499,891
Suzanne Wilson
2009-2014
Full-Scale Development: Science STARS-NURTURING Transformative science identities for urban middle school girls through an inquiry-based after school program
$161,901
Angela Calabrese Barton
2011-2016
FUTuRES - University of Florida Unites Teachers to Reform Education in Science
$99,842
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2014
The Great Lakes Climate Change Science and Education Systemic Network
$424,620
Kenneth Frank
2012
The Great Lakes Climate Change Science and Education Systemic Network
$338,424
Kenneth Frank
2011-2012
GSE/RES: Club to School (C2S): Rethinking the SMT Pipeline
$499,965
Angela Calabrese Barton
2009-2012
Supplement to GSE/RES: Club to School (C2S): Rethinking the SMT Pipeline
$99,738
Angela Calabrese Barton
2010-2012
How Do Organizational Change Strategies Support the Success of Women Scholars in STEM Fields? An Analysis of NSF ADVANCE Programs
$775,291
Ann Austin
2010-2012
Investigating and Supporting the Development of Ambitious and Equitable Mathematics Instruments Scale
$160,356
Kenneth Frank
2011-2016
Investigating the Capacity of Game-based Design Features to Enhance the Affective Dimensions of Genetics Learning
$142,335
Spyridon Konstantopoulos
2011-2014
(M-DISC) Mathematics Discourse in Secondary Classrooms: A Case-Based Professional Development Curriculum
$1,780,327
Beth Herbel-Eisenmann & Michael Steele
2009-2014
Measuring Complex STEM Thinking Using Epistemic Network Analysis
$219,378
Kenneth Frank
2012-2017
Modeling Hydrolic Systems in Elementary Science (MoHSES)
$62,699
Christina Schwarz
2012-2015
New GK-12: Using the STEM Dimensions of Bioenergy Sustainability to Bring Leading Edge Graduate Research to K-12 Learning Settings
$2,964,322
Charles (Andy) Anderson
2010-2015
NSF-RAPID: Model for Implementing the Next Generation
$199,053
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2012
Path to independence: Understanding the Transition from Postdoc to Independent Scientists in Order to Strengthen the Science and Engineering Workforce
$35,000
Brendan Cantwell
2012-2014
Postdoctoral Experiences in STEM: Literature Analysis and Review
$64,841
Ann Austin
2013-2014
R&D: Developing an Empirically-Tested Learning Progression for the Transformation of Matter to Inform Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Design
$178,527
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2012
Reasoning Tools for Understanding Water Systems
$61,039
Charles Anderson
2010-2013
Supporting Scientific Practices in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms
$479,247
Christina Schwarz
2010-2015
Teachers Empowered to Advance Change in Mathematics (TEACH MATH): Preparing Pre-K-8 Teachers to Connect Children's Mathematical Thinking and Community-based Funds of Knowledge
$2,997,546
Corey Drake & Tonya Bartell
2011-2015
Transforming Developmental Mathematics Education in Partnership with Teacher Preparation
$200,000
Raven McCrory, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann & Kristen Bieda
2013-2014
Transforming Interests in STEM Careers (TISC)
$199,976.00
Barbara Schneider
2009-2013
WIDER: EAGER: Metrics to Shift Institutional Culture toward Evidence-Based Instructional Practices
$123,477
James Fairweather
2012-2014
Zydeco: A Mobile "Nomadic Inquiry" System to Support and Bridge Science Inquiry between Classroom and Museum Contexts
$106,939
Joseph Krajcik
2011-2013
NIH Public Health Service
Girls on the Move Intervention$3,692,026
Karin Pfeiffer
2011-2016
Pathways to Biomedical Careers: Enhancing the High School Experience
$419,076
Barbara Schneider
2012-2015
A Translational Approach to Evaluating the Effects of Physical Activity on ADHD
$191,272
Alan Smith
2012-2013
Supplement: A Translational Approach to Evaluating the Effects of Physical Activity on ADHD
$30,450
Alan Smith
2012-2013
Transforming Interests in STEM Careers (TISC)
$199,976.00
Barbara Schneider
2009-2013
Organization for Autism Research
Assessing the Effectiveness of Video-based Group Instruction to Enhance Traditional Social Skills Training for School-Aged Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders$30,000
Joshua Plavnick
2013
Pearson Education
Teachers' Interpretations and Projected Use of Student Score Reports Based upon Ordered Multiple-Choice Items$85,922
Alicia Alonzo
2012-2013
Skillman Foundation
Detroit-based Good Schools Resource Center (GSRC-D)$750,000
Barbara Markle
2012
Detroit-based Good Schools Resource Center (GSRC-D)
$750,000
Barbara Markle
2013
Smith Richardson Foundation
Estimating the Return to Undergraduate Business Majors Using GPA Discontinuities$22,378
Scott Imberman
2012-2013
Society for the Study of School Psychology
Teacher and Student Acceptability of Oral Reading Fluency$5,000
Sara Witmer
2012-2013
Spencer Foundation
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy across Communities: Studies with Teachers of African American, Latina/o, and Indigenous Youth$40,000
Barbara Schneider
2013
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy across Communities: Studies with Teachers of African American, Latina/o, and Indigenous Youth
$55,000
Django Parisr
2014
Faith in Diologue: How Religious Faith Shapes Moral Deliberation in Contemporary English Classrooms
$40,000
Mary Juzwik
2012-2013
"My Literacy Teaching Is Comprehensive, But Is It Coherent?" Intern Teachers' Learning of Local Curricular Decision-Making in the Context of State Mandates, Scripted Curriculum, and Standardized Assessment
$40,000
Susan Florio-Ruane
2012
Scaling Up a Promising Approach to Narrowing the Achievement Gap in Social Studies and Content Literacy
$205,455
Anne-Lise Halvorsen
2012-2015
Understanding the Teacher Leadership Process for Improving Teaching and Learning
$40,000
Randi Nevins Stanulis
2013-2014
Women, Leadership, and Organizational Culture in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Ghana and South Africa
$40,000
Reitumetse Mabokela
2012-2014
Faith in Diologue: How Religious Faith Shapes Moral Deliberation in Contemporary English Classrooms
$40,000
Mary Juzwik
2012-2013
United Nations
Study of Teachers for Children Marginalized by Social origin, Economic Status or Location$228,859
Amita Chudgar
2012
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
True Sport: National Survey Data Analysis$39,332
Daniel Gould
2012-2013
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Place-based Opportunities for Sustainable Outcomes and High-hopes (POSOH)$236,916
Charles Anderson & Angela Calabrese Barton
2011-2015
Development and Evaluation of Standardized, Competency-Based Food Safety Education and Training Programs for the Food Industry
$600,000*
Edward Roeber
2011-2014
U.S. Department of Education
Alignment Across K-12 Writing Standards, Assessments, Achievement and Postsecondary Expectations: A State by State Analysis$1,632,437
Gary Troia
2010-2014
A Proposal to Measure the Impact of Indiana's System of Diagnostic Assessments on Student Achievement Outcomes
$61,978
Spyridon Konstantopoulos
2012-2013
Center on Effective Vocational Rehabilitation Service Delivery Practices
$494,690
Michael Leahy
2011-2016
Center on Effective Vocational Rehabilitation Service Delivery Practices
$494,690
Michael Leahy
2011-2016
Constructing Accurate Value-Added Indicators of Teacher and School Effectiveness that We Can Trust
$1,194,064
Cassandra Guarino & Mark Reckase
2010-2013
Bringing Science into Practice within the Delivery of Psychological Services to Early Childhood Populations
$800,000
John Carlson, Evelyn Oka, Sara Bolt-Witmer & Jodene Fine
2009-2013
Development and Validation of the Narrative Assessment Protocol
$1,800,843
Mark Reckase
2011-2015
The Impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum and Michigan Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes
$1,474,614
Barbara Schneider & Kenneth Frank
2010-2015
Integrating Literacy and History Instruction through Technology
$400,000
Cynthia Okolo, Carol Sue Englert & Janet Alleman
2010-2012
Learning to Use Economic Methods to Answer Questions About Education: An Interdisciplinary Training Program
Robert Floden
$4,970,928
2009 – 2014
Proposal for an RCT Training Institute
$821,447
Spyridon Konstantopoulos
2011-2014
Rehabilitation Counseling: Long Term Training Grant
$750,000
John Kosciulek
2008-2013
Spatial Ability as a Malleable factor for Math Learning
$1,532,477
Kelly Mix
2012-2013
Teacher Mentoring and Professional Learning Communities
$578,380
Randi Stanulis
2011-2013
Understanding, Interpreting and Teaching about Africa in the World through the Humanities and Social Studies: Case Study of Tanzania for Pre-Service and Mentor Teacher
$109,387
Margo Glew
2012-2013
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Project Excellence 2012-13$438,080
Michael Leahy
2012-2013
U.S. Tennis Association
Barriers, Opportunities, and Best Practices in Implementing 10- and-Under Tennis in America: Expert Coaches' Views$10,996
Larry Lauer*
2013-2016
Various Schools
Confucius Institute Chinese Teacher Contracts$3,375,000
2010-2013
Confucius Institute Chinese Teacher Contracts
$2,070,000
2012-2013
*No longer at Michigan State University.
**Total university award amount.
***Full award to Michigan State University is $35,000,000.
