Summarized from AERA website by Chang Liu.
Website: https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Funding-Opportunities/Grants-Program
Objectives/funding priorities
The Grants Program encourages the use of major data sets from multiple and diverse sources and emphasizes the advanced statistical analysis of federal data sets or large-scale international data sets.
The Grants Program is open to field-initiated research and welcomes proposals that:
- develop or benefit from advanced statistical or innovative quantitative methods or measures;
- analyze more than one large-scale national or international federally funded data set, or more than one statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS) or incorporate other data enhancements;
- integrate, link, or blend multiple large-scale data sources; or
- undertake replication research of major findings or major studies using large-scale, federally supported or enhanced data.
Types of Grants Funded:
- Dissertation Grants:The AERA Dissertation Grants provide advanced graduate students with research funding and professional development and training. The program supports highly competitive dissertation research using rigorous quantitative methods to examine large-scale, education-related data. The aim of the program is to advance fundamental knowledge of relevance to STEM policy, foster significant science using education data, and build research capacity in education and learning.
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- Level of Funding Provided
- Award Component 1, $25,000 Stipend.
- Award Component 2, AERA Research Conference.
- Award Component 3, AERA Annual Meeting Capstone Research Institute.
- Level of Funding Provided
- Research Grants:The AERA Research Grants provide grants to faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral level scholars. The program supports highly competitive studies using rigorous quantitative methods to examine large-scale, education-related data. This research and training program is designed to advance knowledge and build research capacity in education and STEM education and learning.
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- Level of Funding Provided
- Awards for Research Grants are up to $25,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects.
- Level of Funding Provided
Eligibility:
- Applicant Eligibility
- Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while analyzing data and writing the doctoral dissertation.
- Research Grants are available for faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral level scholars.
- Data Set Eligibility
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- The dissertation research project must include the analysis of large-scale data. The data set can originate from one or multiple sources, including
- (1) federal data bases,
- (2) federally supported national studies,
- (3) international data sets supported by federal funds, or
- (4) statewide longitudinal administrative data systems (SLDS) enhanced through federal grants.
- The dissertation research project must include the analysis of large-scale data. The data set can originate from one or multiple sources, including
Submission Guidelines:
- Dissertation Grants: https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Funding-Opportunities/Grants-Program/Dissertation-Grants
- Research Grants: https://www.aera.net/Professional-Opportunities-Funding/AERA-Funding-Opportunities/Grants-Program/Research-Grants
Deadlines: Extended Deadline for 2020: December 15, 2020, 11:59pm Pacific time
Example of Funded Grants:
- Dissertation Grants:
“Cross-national analysis of school violence: Critical evaluation of the effect of academic competition on delinquency”
Motoko Akiba, Pennsylvania State University
Description: This study utilized a section of the TIMSS survey data to 1) explore how much school violence there is among 37 nations; 2) determine whether or not previous theories of juvenile delinquency and school violence hold up in cross-national analysis; 3) test whether factors related to the educational system itself are associated with levels of school violence cross-nationally. This study found that violence as reflected by violence victimization was widespread in schools among the 37 nations, that previous theories did not adequately explain the structural causes of violence, and that a combination of poor-quality public schooling combined with strong academic competition was significantly associated with higher levels of student victimization.
- Research Grants:
“Students’ mathematics achievement and course-taking in 8th grade: The role of school readiness? ”
Katerina Bodovski, Pennsylvania State University
Description: This study aims to investigate how school readiness (measured at the beginning of kindergarten) affects students’ mathematics learning through the end of 8th grade. Specifically, the study has two main objectives: a) to estimate a growth of students’ mathematics achievement from the spring of kindergarten through the spring of 8th grade; and b) to examine mathematics courses taken in the 8th grade as a function of school readiness, net of other student- and school-related factors. Furthermore, for both outcomes–mathematics growth trajectory and the likelihood of taking an advanced mathematics course in 8th grade–the interaction effects will be estimated to examine the differential effects of school readiness on the outcomes of various groups of students, defined by their gender, race/ethnicity, and family socio-economic status. To address these objectives, the study will employ a large nationally representative data set of elementary school students, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K), including the most recently available 8th grade wave of data.