Field Initiated Evaluations of Educational Interventions
The U.S. Department of Educations Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) invites applications for Field-Initiated Evaluations of Educational Interventions. Interventions are programs, products, practices, or policies that can be adopted by multiple schools and districts. The grants will fund efficacy trials of pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 interventions designed to improve academic outcomes (e.g., student achievement, high school graduation, grades) and other student behaviors that have a direct impact on academic outcomes (e.g., attendance, drug use, conduct, education plans and aspirations, course taking, studying). The purpose of an efficacy trial is to rigorously test a promising intervention within a small number of education settings (e.g., classrooms or schools). Interventions appropriate for study are interventions that are fully developed, deployed in an education setting, replicable, and for which a strong case can be made that knowing the efficacy of the intervention would have important implications for practice and policy. Because the evaluations will focus on identifying the causal effects of educational interventions, studies in which the subjects of the interventions (e.g., schools, teachers, or students) are randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions are strongly preferred. A high-quality quasi-experimental design may be used only in circumstances in which a randomized trial is not possible.
Typical awards will be from $200,000 to $500,000 per year for up to 3 years.
The Request for Applications is available at the IES Website under Field Initiated Evaluations of Education Innovations. Letters of intent are due October 15, 2006, and the deadline for transmittal of applicants is December 16, 2006.
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Posted December 19, 2002 10:57 AM
