Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (84.305D)

Grant Type

Discretionary grant

Office

Institute of Education Sciences (IES)

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ALN

84.305D

Contact

Emily Weaver

Emily.Weaver@ed.gov

Eligibility

For Profit Organizations

Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs)

Non-Profit Organizations

Private Entities

Public Entities

Research Institution/Organization

Application Deadline

10/01/2026 - 11:59 PM EDT

Application Status

Open

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FY 2026

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D260042	Columbia University	NY	Statistical Tools for Generalizing in Education Research	$897,426
R305D260024	University of Florida	FL	Propensity Score Analysis of Multilevel Data: A Systematic Review	$348,917
R305D260022	University of Georgia	GA	Quality Enhancement for Single Case Proposals (QualiCase)	$349,985
R305D260006	American Institutes for Research	VA	Toolkit for Examining Measurement Invariance to Support High-Quality Measures	$349,939
R305D260017	Stanford University	CA	Curating School Demographic Data for Education Research	$899,978

FY 2024

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D240025	Stanford University	CA	The Item Response Warehouse: Empowering Data-Driven Psychometrics Research	$900,000
R305D240032	University of Kansas	KS	Expanding the Functionality and Accessibility of Software for Diagnostic Measurement	$347,371
R305D240036	University of Pennsylvania	PA	Statistical Innovations for Balancing Weight Methods in Education Research	$899,779
R305D240044	University of South Florida	FL	Methods for Investigating Causal Mechanisms in Single-Case Experimental Designs	$896,181
R305D240056	New York University	NY	What, When, and for Whom? Principled Estimation of Effect Heterogeneity Across Multiple Treatments, Outcomes, and Groups	$899,992
R305D240078	University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa	AL	Improving the Estimation of Site-Specific Effects and their Distribution in Multisite Trials: Practical Tools and Guidelines	$211,377
R305D240018	American Institutes for Research	VA	Propensity Score Matching in Multilevel Educational Settings: Review of Design Considerations and Approaches	$349,947
R305D240019	Texas A&M University	TX	Design Comparable Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR) Effect Sizes for Count Data in Single-Case Experimental Designs	$891,958
R305D240021	University of Washington	WA	Variational Methods and Factor Regularization: Analyzing Complex Large-Scale Assessments with High-Dimensional Covariates	$899,972
R305D240029	University of Michigan	MI	Methods and Software to Classify College Courses at Scale	$899,226
R305D240023	Northwestern University	IL	Developing and Evaluating Tools for Communicating Statistical Evidence to Education Decision-Makers	$899,973
R305D240010	EdResearcher LLC	NY	Resources to Standardize Cost Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Educational Interventions	$350,000
R305D240057	MDRC	NY	The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trials (THE-RCT) – Supporting High Quality and Efficient Postsecondary RCTs and Open Science Practices	$899,704

FY 2022

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D220020	University of Georgia	GA	Generalized, Multilevel, and Longitudinal Psychometric Models for Evaluating Educational Interventions	$899,995
R305D220012	University of Wisconsin - Madison	WI	Bayesian Probabilistic Forecasting with International Large-Scale Assessments	$896,582
R305D220001	University of California - Los Angeles	CA	Dealing with Missing Data in Educational Research: Methodological Innovations and Contemporary Recommendations	$340,558
R305D220032	Harvard University	MA	Practical Tools for Large-Scale Evaluation of Text Data in Randomized Trials in Education	$894,352
R305D220030	University of Maryland - College Park	MD	Multilevel Regression Discontinuity Design With Latent Variables	$883,198
R305D220022	Michigan State University	MI	Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inferences: Extensions and Application to Existing Databases	$899,319
R305D220003	Arizona State University	AZ	Extending Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Latent Variable Models	$557,555
R305D220052	Northwestern University	IL	Design Comparable Effect Sizes for Single Case Designs	$899,721
R305D220055	University of Illinois - Chicago	IL	Fair Prediction of College-Student Success Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines	$299,461
R305D220046	MDRC	NY	Identifying Best Practices for Estimating Average Treatment Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials: Estimands, Estimators, and Estimates	$898,275
R305D220034	University of Virginia	VA	Integrated Replication Designs for Identifying Generalizability Boundaries of Causal Effects	$899,115
R305D220028	MDRC	NY	Investigating the Potential of Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Impact Variation in Randomized Control Trials	$899,995
R305D220026	American Institutes for Research	VA	Consequences of Selective Reporting Bias in Education Research	$896,931

FY 2021

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D210014	University of Pennsylvania	PA	Statistical Innovations for Clustered Observational Studies	$899,023
R305D210022	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	Moderation and Non-compliance in Multi-Site Trials with Measurement Error and Missing Data	$899,995
R305D210023	University of Notre Dame	IN	Methods and Software for Handling Network Data and Text Data in Structural Equation Modeling	$861,354
R305D210029	University of Michigan	MI	Direct Adjustment in Combination With Robust or Nonlinear Regression: Software and Methods for RDDs, RCTs and Matched Observational Studies	$785,482
R305D210031	University of Michigan	MI	Improving the Power of Education Experiments with Auxiliary Data	$576,429
R305D210032	University of Missouri - Columbia	MO	Innovative, Translational, and User-Friendly Tools for Comprehensive Statistical Model Evaluation	$900,000
R305D210036	University of Texas - Austin	TX	Fully Latent Principal Stratification: A New Framework for Big, Complex Implementation Data from Education RCTs	$891,895
R305D210044	University of Missouri - Columbia	MO	Scaling Bayesian Latent Variable Models to Big Education Data	$899,456
R305D210045	University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.	KS	Improving Software and Methods for Estimating Diagnostic Classification Models and Evaluating Model Fit	$224,996

FY 2020

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D200038	Southern Methodist University	TX	Developing Computational Tools for Model-Based Oral Reading Fluency Assessments	$899,901
R305D200032	Georgetown University	DC	Assembling an Open-Access School-by-School Spending Data Archive	$897,966
R305D200031	University of Chicago	IL	Causal Mediation Analysis Under Partial Compliance in Single-Site and Multisite Randomized Trials	$899,688
R305D200045	Abt Associates, Inc.	MA	Deriving and Developing Tools to Estimate Optimal Data Points for Quasi-Experimental Designs	$648,791
R305D200019	New York University	NY	thinkCausal: Practical Tools for Understanding and Implementing Causal Inference Methods	$899,876
R305D200015	University of Washington	WA	Innovative Statistical Learning Methods and Software for Large-Scale Assessment	$764,021
R305D200010	University of California - Berkeley	CA	Improving Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation with Group Panel Data in Education Research	$896,026
R305D200008	RAND Corporation	VA	Using Machine Learning Methods to Improve Regression Discontinuity Designs	$224,999

The Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (84.305D) grant program (Methods) supports the development of a wide range of statistical and methodological products, including new or improved methods, toolkits, guidelines, compendia, review papers, software, and curated data resources, to better enable education scientists to conduct rigorous education research.

Researchers should plan to widely disseminate their products to education researchers working in a variety of institutions, such as public and private college and universities; federal, state, and local agencies, and non-profit and for-profit organizations. researchers should plan to disseminate to any education researchers or others who might benefit from using the products and adapt their dissemination for different uses and users of the product.

Applicants to the Methods program may apply to address one of two topics:

Core Grants topic - Supports the development of new and improved statistical and research methods for use by education researchers. These methods are to be user tested by education researchers to ensure their usability, revised as needed, then broadly disseminated through different types of products such as articles in applied education journals, detailed working papers and monographs, workshops, software, and curated data resources.
Toolkits Grants topic - Supports compiling existing research and information for a given method into products, such as toolkits, guidelines, compendia, review papers, curated data resources, workshops that help education researchers understand and apply the method. These products are to be user tested by education researchers to ensure their usability, revised as needed, and then broadly disseminated.

Legislation

The “Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002,” Title I of Public Law 107-279, November 5, 2002
Section 10634 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (42 U.S.C. § 19234)
This program is not subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of Executive Order 12372

Regulations

Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance) codified at 2 C.F.R. Part 200
The Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 C.F.R. parts 77, 81, 82, 84, 86 (part 86 applies only to institutions of higher education), 97, 98, and 99. In addition 34 C.F.R. part 75 is applicable, except for the provisions in 34 CFR 75.100, 75.101(b), 75.102, 75.103, 75.105, 75.109(a), 75.200, 75.201, 75.209, 75.210, 75.211, 75.217, 75.219,75.220, 75.221, 75.222, and 75.230.

Applicant Information

Timeline

Application Available: August 6, 2026
Letter of Intent: September 3, 2026 (Submit your Letter of Intent online)
Application Deadline: October 1, 2026 by 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time
Possible Start Dates: July 1 - September 1, 2027

Application

Review the IES Application Submission Guide
Review the FY 2026 84.305D Statistical and Research Methodology in Education Application Notice and Instructions
Complete your submission on Grants.gov

Eligibility

Institutions that have the ability and capacity to conduct scientific research are eligible to apply.

Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to:

Non-proft organizations
For-profit organizations
Public and private agencies and institutions, such as colleges and universities

FY 2026

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D260042	Columbia University	NY	Statistical Tools for Generalizing in Education Research	$897,426
R305D260024	University of Florida	FL	Propensity Score Analysis of Multilevel Data: A Systematic Review	$348,917
R305D260022	University of Georgia	GA	Quality Enhancement for Single Case Proposals (QualiCase)	$349,985
R305D260006	American Institutes for Research	VA	Toolkit for Examining Measurement Invariance to Support High-Quality Measures	$349,939
R305D260017	Stanford University	CA	Curating School Demographic Data for Education Research	$899,978

FY 2024

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D240025	Stanford University	CA	The Item Response Warehouse: Empowering Data-Driven Psychometrics Research	$900,000
R305D240032	University of Kansas	KS	Expanding the Functionality and Accessibility of Software for Diagnostic Measurement	$347,371
R305D240036	University of Pennsylvania	PA	Statistical Innovations for Balancing Weight Methods in Education Research	$899,779
R305D240044	University of South Florida	FL	Methods for Investigating Causal Mechanisms in Single-Case Experimental Designs	$896,181
R305D240056	New York University	NY	What, When, and for Whom? Principled Estimation of Effect Heterogeneity Across Multiple Treatments, Outcomes, and Groups	$899,992
R305D240078	University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa	AL	Improving the Estimation of Site-Specific Effects and their Distribution in Multisite Trials: Practical Tools and Guidelines	$211,377
R305D240018	American Institutes for Research	VA	Propensity Score Matching in Multilevel Educational Settings: Review of Design Considerations and Approaches	$349,947
R305D240019	Texas A&M University	TX	Design Comparable Incidence Rate Ratio (IRR) Effect Sizes for Count Data in Single-Case Experimental Designs	$891,958
R305D240021	University of Washington	WA	Variational Methods and Factor Regularization: Analyzing Complex Large-Scale Assessments with High-Dimensional Covariates	$899,972
R305D240029	University of Michigan	MI	Methods and Software to Classify College Courses at Scale	$899,226
R305D240023	Northwestern University	IL	Developing and Evaluating Tools for Communicating Statistical Evidence to Education Decision-Makers	$899,973
R305D240010	EdResearcher LLC	NY	Resources to Standardize Cost Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Educational Interventions	$350,000
R305D240057	MDRC	NY	The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trials (THE-RCT) – Supporting High Quality and Efficient Postsecondary RCTs and Open Science Practices	$899,704

FY 2022

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D220020	University of Georgia	GA	Generalized, Multilevel, and Longitudinal Psychometric Models for Evaluating Educational Interventions	$899,995
R305D220012	University of Wisconsin - Madison	WI	Bayesian Probabilistic Forecasting with International Large-Scale Assessments	$896,582
R305D220001	University of California - Los Angeles	CA	Dealing with Missing Data in Educational Research: Methodological Innovations and Contemporary Recommendations	$340,558
R305D220032	Harvard University	MA	Practical Tools for Large-Scale Evaluation of Text Data in Randomized Trials in Education	$894,352
R305D220030	University of Maryland - College Park	MD	Multilevel Regression Discontinuity Design With Latent Variables	$883,198
R305D220022	Michigan State University	MI	Quantifying the Robustness of Causal Inferences: Extensions and Application to Existing Databases	$899,319
R305D220003	Arizona State University	AZ	Extending Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Latent Variable Models	$557,555
R305D220052	Northwestern University	IL	Design Comparable Effect Sizes for Single Case Designs	$899,721
R305D220055	University of Illinois - Chicago	IL	Fair Prediction of College-Student Success Using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines	$299,461
R305D220046	MDRC	NY	Identifying Best Practices for Estimating Average Treatment Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials: Estimands, Estimators, and Estimates	$898,275
R305D220034	University of Virginia	VA	Integrated Replication Designs for Identifying Generalizability Boundaries of Causal Effects	$899,115
R305D220028	MDRC	NY	Investigating the Potential of Machine Learning Methods for Identifying Impact Variation in Randomized Control Trials	$899,995
R305D220026	American Institutes for Research	VA	Consequences of Selective Reporting Bias in Education Research	$896,931

FY 2021

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D210014	University of Pennsylvania	PA	Statistical Innovations for Clustered Observational Studies	$899,023
R305D210022	Virginia Commonwealth University	VA	Moderation and Non-compliance in Multi-Site Trials with Measurement Error and Missing Data	$899,995
R305D210023	University of Notre Dame	IN	Methods and Software for Handling Network Data and Text Data in Structural Equation Modeling	$861,354
R305D210029	University of Michigan	MI	Direct Adjustment in Combination With Robust or Nonlinear Regression: Software and Methods for RDDs, RCTs and Matched Observational Studies	$785,482
R305D210031	University of Michigan	MI	Improving the Power of Education Experiments with Auxiliary Data	$576,429
R305D210032	University of Missouri - Columbia	MO	Innovative, Translational, and User-Friendly Tools for Comprehensive Statistical Model Evaluation	$900,000
R305D210036	University of Texas - Austin	TX	Fully Latent Principal Stratification: A New Framework for Big, Complex Implementation Data from Education RCTs	$891,895
R305D210044	University of Missouri - Columbia	MO	Scaling Bayesian Latent Variable Models to Big Education Data	$899,456
R305D210045	University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.	KS	Improving Software and Methods for Estimating Diagnostic Classification Models and Evaluating Model Fit	$224,996

FY 2020

Grant Award Number	Grantee	State	Project Title	Award Amount
R305D200038	Southern Methodist University	TX	Developing Computational Tools for Model-Based Oral Reading Fluency Assessments	$899,901
R305D200032	Georgetown University	DC	Assembling an Open-Access School-by-School Spending Data Archive	$897,966
R305D200031	University of Chicago	IL	Causal Mediation Analysis Under Partial Compliance in Single-Site and Multisite Randomized Trials	$899,688
R305D200045	Abt Associates, Inc.	MA	Deriving and Developing Tools to Estimate Optimal Data Points for Quasi-Experimental Designs	$648,791
R305D200019	New York University	NY	thinkCausal: Practical Tools for Understanding and Implementing Causal Inference Methods	$899,876
R305D200015	University of Washington	WA	Innovative Statistical Learning Methods and Software for Large-Scale Assessment	$764,021
R305D200010	University of California - Berkeley	CA	Improving Methods for Policy Impact Evaluation with Group Panel Data in Education Research	$896,026
R305D200008	RAND Corporation	VA	Using Machine Learning Methods to Improve Regression Discontinuity Designs	$224,999

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