Active Grants

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.

American Psychological Association

Scaling up utility-value interventions
$6,000
2015-2016

Arizona State University

University Innovation Alliance Predictive Analytics and Advising Interventions
$284,062
Kristen Renn
2015-2018

Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy

Gates Foundation, Bill & Melinda
Azerbaijan Educational Leadership Initiative: A Collaborative Institutional Partnership between ADA University/Azerbaijan and the College of Education/MSU
$2,454,253
Susan Printy, Barbara Markle, BetsAnn Smith, Matthew Wawrzynski, Daniel W Schultz
2015-2020

Broad Foundation

THE BROAD PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
$6,000,000
Sonya Gunnings-Moton, Carole Ames
2003-2017

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Comprehensive System for Rapid District Intervention for Flint Community Schools
$2,075,000
Barbara Markle, Daniel W Schultz
2015-2016

Detroit Board of Education

SIG External Service Provider to Detroit Public Schools
$729,000
Barbara Markle
2015-2015

Michigan Department of Education
SIG External Service Provider to Detroit Public Schools - Osborn Evergreen Academy
$0
Barbara Markle
2016-2017

General Electric Foundation

Michigan Department of Education
Common Core Implementation Research Center
$1,000,000
William Schmidt
2012-2017

George Lucas Educational Foundation

Multiple Literacies in Project Based Learning
$4,999,645
Joseph Krajcik, Barbara Schneider
2015-2019

Georgia State University

MAAPS: Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Student Success
$752,891
Kristen Renn
2015-2019

Henry H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation

U.S. Department of Education
Launching, Accelerating, and Multiplying STEM Students for Michigan: MSU STEM Success Program
$2,500,000
Kristen Renn
2014-2017

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

LEVERS: Leveraging Engagement and Vision to Encourage Retention in STEM
$1,500,000
Joseph Krajcik
2014-2019

Joe D. Pentecost Foundation

A Prospective Examination of Neurocognitive Function, Balance, and Symptom Reporting in Youth and High School Athletes with Sport-Related Concussion
$44,000
Tracey Covassin
2015-2016

Michigan Department of Education

Evaluation of Project AWARE Michigan
$138,373
John Carlson
2014-2015

Evaluation of Project AWARE Michigan
$614,296
John Carlson
2015-2016

Michigan Rehabilitation Services

DHS/DTMB E-Learn System
$163,869
Rhonda Egidio
2016-2017

National Institutes of Health

A New Genomic Framework for Schools and Communities
$755,474
Joseph Krajcik
2014-2017

National Science Foundation

CAREER: Redesigning a Learning Progression to Build Upon Students' Intuitive Ideas about Motion and Support Teachers' Formative Assessment Practices
$654,773
Alicia Alonzo
2013-2018

CAREER: Reciprocal Noticing: Latino/a Students and Teachers Constructing Common Resources in Mathematics
$503,334
Higinio Dominguez
2013-2018

Collaborative Research: Expanding a National Network for Automated Analysis of Constructed Response Assessments to Reveal Student Thinking in STEM
$1,923,005
Melanie Cooper
2013-2018

MSU SETS-UP: Supporting Early-Career Teachers of Science through Urban Partnerships
$2,790,717
Gail Richmond
2013-2019

Access, Agency, and Allies in Mathematical Systems (A3IMS)
$2,560,950
Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Higinio Dominguez
2014-2018

Collaborative Research: Supporting Secondary Students in Building External Models
$918,359
Joseph Krajcik
2014-2018

Exploring Potential Learning Trajectories for the Energy Concept in Middle School
$1,499,825
Joseph Krajcik
2014-2018

Sustaining Responsive and Rigorous Teaching Based on Carbon TIME
$6,968,640
Charles Anderson, Kenneth Frank
2014-2019

CS 10K: Leading the Way to CS10K: Assessing a Just-in-Time Professional Development Approach to Teacher Knowledge Growth in Computer Science
$1,025,712
2014-2017

PIRE: Crafting Optimal Learning in Science Environments
$3,602,431
Barbara Schneider, Joseph Krajcik
2015-2020

Tools for Teaching and Learning Engineering Practices: Pathways Towards Productive Identity Work in Engineering
$1,307,460
Angela Calabrese Barton
2015-2019

Collaborative Research: Research Initiation: Facilitating Design Thinking through Cases
$101,102
2015-2017

U.S. Agency for International Development

Global Center for Food Systems Innovation
$24,919,790
John Dirkx
2012-2017

U.S. Department of Education

Michigan State University Masters of Arts Rehabilitation Counseling Program
$997,754
2014-2019

The Development and Validation of the Inventory of Phonological Awareness using Alternative Responses (IPAAR): An Assessment of Phonological Awareness Appropriate for Children with Speech Production Difficulties
$1,598,920
Gary Troia
2015-2016

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Teaching Science Outdoors: A parthway to enhancing K-5 teacher and student environmental education
$91,000
Renee Bayer
2015-2017

U.S. Tennis Association

Barriers, Opportunities, and Best Practices in Implementing 10- and-Under Tennis in America: Expert Coaches’ Views
$11,000
Dan Gould, Larry Lauer
2013-2017

University of Illinois

Designing Next Generation Assessments to Support the Teaching and Learning of Life Science
$528,081
Joseph Krajcik
2015-2017

University of Maryland College Park

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Nurturing the seeds of computational and scientific thinking in elementary school
$206,187
2016-2018

University of Virginia

National Science Foundation
The Development of Ambitious Instruction in Elementary Mathematics and English Language Arts
$344,653
Corey Drake, Spyros Konstantopoulos
2015-2016

Spencer Foundation
The Development of Ambitious Instruction in Elementary Mathematics
$107,382
Corey Drake, Spyros Konstantopoulos
2015-2018

University of Wisconsin Stout

National Science Foundation
Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center-Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance (VRTAC-PEQA)
$75,000
Michael Leahy,
2015-2016

William T. Grant Foundation

U.S. Department of Education
The Makerspace Movement: Sites of Possibilities for Equitable Opportunities to Engage STEM among Underrepresented Youth
$199,512
Angela Calabrese Barton
2016-2017

*No longer at Michigan State University.
**Total university award amount.
***Full award to Michigan State University is $35,000,000.