July 2021
AERA has announced 12 recipients of its Dissertation and Research Grant Awards. The recipients are studying salient and relevant topics in education research that directly address or indirectly inform STEM, such as science course-taking trajectories, student achievement gaps, and access to higher education. The recipients are selected through and supported by the AERA-NSF Grants Program, which has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1990.
These scholars are using federal data sets or federally funded data sets such as from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the High School Longitudinal Study, the Add Health Study, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, the Common Core of Data, and the Civil Rights Data Collection. Also, Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) such as the SLDS data from Tennessee, North Carolina, or Texas are used by awardees. These studies use rigorous quantitative methods and advanced statistical techniques to examine topics and issues in education research.
The grants provide advanced graduate students with $25,000 for one year as they write up their research; early career scholars receive up to $35,000 for a two-year study. In addition, scholars participate in professional development and training activities aimed at building their research capacity and encouraging the use large-scale data in education research.
Since 1990, the AERA-NSF Grants Program has supported over 600 graduate students and early career scholars as they launched their careers and developed their research agendas in STEM education research.
“The AERA-NSF Grants Program supports some of the most promising STEM education research that draws from large-scale data sets and state longitudinal administrative data,” said Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University), chair of the program’s governing board. “The program supports new and early career scholars who are expanding how we use large-scale data to understand and inform education practices and policies.”
Current and former AERA-NSF Grants Program grantees will present their research in poster sessions during the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting in San Diego. For more information about the Grants Program, visit the AERA website. The next proposal deadline for Dissertation and Research Grant Awards will be October 5. The tables below list the dissertation and research grant recipients who will begin their research this summer.
Amberly Dziesinski Vanderbilt University
Heewon Jang Stanford University
Elise Marifian University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pamela Nicholas-Hoff University of Virginia
Connor Oswald Florida State University
Zhiling Shea University of California, Irvine
Hyunwoo Yang University of Wisconsin, Madison
Patrick Graff University of Notre Dame
Charles Sanchez University of Georgia
Noli Brazil University of California, Davis
Chloe Gibbs University of Notre Dame
David Mickey-Pabello Harvard University/UCLA
Hajime Mitani Rowan University
Jackie Relyea North Carolina State University
Michael Villarreal University of Texas at San Antonio
Xiaoyang Ye Brown University
Se Woong Lee University of Missouri
Benjamin Shear University of Colorado Boulder
The AERA Grants Program is funded by the National Science Foundation under NSF award NSF-DRL #1749275.