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The National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum and Assessment awarded 13 grants, totaling over $2.65 million. Recipients included ten colleges or universities, two independent research organizations, and one state department of education. Projects addressed issues such as reducing and preventing violence in schools; using technology to improve teaching and learning; organizing schools for effective instruction; and improving teaching and learning in the core content areas.
This project tests the existing body of knowledge concerning the causes and conditions of school violence; applies this knowledge to methods and activities which reduce and prevent violence in New York inner-city public high schools; and disseminates this information more broadly in ways that will impact on public policy in other secondary schools.
Project Director: LaMar Miller
New York University
32 Washington Place, Suite 72
New York, New York 10003
Phone: 212-998-5100
Year 1 funding: $258,135
Project Period: 3 Years
School-Based Programs for Violent and Disruptive Behavior
This study analyzes the main components of comprehensive school-based programs for reducing violent and disruptive behavior, including organizational practices, violence prevention curriculum, and parental involvement approaches.
Project Director: Ron Nelson
Eastern Washington University
Office of Grants and Research Development
526 5th Street, MS-10
Cheney, WA 99004
Phone: 509-359-2815
Year 1 funding: $201,983
Project Period: 3 Years
A National Survey of Technology’s Impact on Classroom Teaching
This project examines the extent to which new computer technologies, such as CD-ROM databases and desktop publishing, support effective teaching practices an d beliefs. (Jointly funded with the National Science Foundation)
Project Director: Henry Jay Becker
University of California
CRITO
Suite 320
Berkeley Place
Irvine, California
Phone: 714-824-8260
Year 1 funding (SAI’s contribution): $104,600
Project Period: 3 Years
State Support System for Local Policy Makers
This project is developing a computer-based support system to translate state wide assessment data into information that can be used to improve planning and instruction.
Project Director: Mark Moody
Maryland State Department of Education
200 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-767-0073
Year 1 funding: $281,320
Project Period: 3 Years
Testing a Network-based Approach to Home and School Connections
This project is conducting a longitudinal study of the effects of a computer network that links home and school and its impact on student achievement in a rural community. Current project information is available at http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/edu/fis/classroom.html.
Project Director: Roger Ehrich
Virginia Tech
Office of Sponsored Programs
301 Burruss Hall
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
Phone: 540-231-5420
Year 1 funding: $213,100
Project Period: 3 Years
Block Scheduling
This project studies the effects of changing daily schedules in high schools into 4 blocks per day (85-90 minutes) in urban, suburban, and rural districts.
Project Director: Geoffrey Maruyama
University of Minnesota
Office of Research and Technology
1100 Washington Avenue
Suite 201
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-624-3315
Year 1 funding: $167,091
Project Period: 2 Years
Achievement in a Whole Day Whole Year School
In collaboration with a group of outstanding middle school teachers, this study examines efforts to enhance achievement in mathematics, science, and English by adopting a Whole Day Whole Year schedule.
Project Directors: David Bloome and Susan Goldman
Vanderbilt University
Division of Sponsored Research
512 Kirkland Hall
Nashville, TN 37240
Phone: 615-322-8070
Year 1 funding: $255,911
Project Period: 3 Years
Student Achievement Trends, 1972-1994
This project empirically examines minority and non-minority test scores trends over the past 25 years, using new data for several cohorts of students. Analysis will focus on changes in families and changes between and within schools and their relationship to student achievement.
Project Directors: Mark Berends and Samuel R. Lucas
RAND
1700 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA
Phone: 202-296-5000
Year 1 funding: $122,455
Project Period: 3 Years
Impact of Kentucky Ungraded Primary Program
This three-year study will evaluate the long-term effects of Kentucky’s ungraded Primary Program on student achievement in core content areas.
Project Director: Roger Pankratz
Kentucky Institute for Education Research
146 Consumer Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-227-9014
Year 1 funding: $219,224
Project Period: 3 Years
Transferable Skills
This project investigates how students can learn to generalize beyond a single curricular domain by developing the Thinker Tool Inquiry Curriculum for middle school history and biology.
Project Director: Barbara Yolanda White
University of California
School of Education
4533 Tolman Hall #1670
Berkeley, California 94720
Phone: 510-873-8104
Year 1 funding: $230,148
Project Period: 3 Years
Starter Units for Teachers
This project uses an outstanding group of practicing teachers to develop a set of starter units that incorporate recent research results into how students develop thinking and problem solving skills in the early grades. (Jointly funded for the first year with the National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.)
Project Directors: John Bransford, Linda Zech & Daniel Schwartz
Vanderbilt University
Division of Sponsored Research
Kirkland Hall
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-322-8070
Year 1 funding: $244,794
Project Period: 3 Years
Phonics and Whole Language
This project will conduct eight case studies to document reading achievement of 200 first grade children taught by an integrated whole language and phonics approach.
Project Director: Karin Dahl
Ohio State University
1960 Kenney Road
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-292-6016
Funding: $136,019
Project Period: 1 Year
First Steps Study
This study documents the implementation and impact of a literacy education program in the Hartford, Connecticut public schools.
Project Director: Helen Freidus
Bank Street College of Education
610 West 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
Phone: 212-875-4533
Year 1 funding: $224,135
Project Period: 3 Years
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