National Center for Education Research (NCER) grants: Research Training Programs in The Education Sciences

Overview

In awarding the research grants, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) intends to provide national leadership in expanding knowledge and understanding of (1) education outcomes for all learners from early childhood education through postsecondary and adult education, and (2) employment and wage outcomes when relevant (such as for those engaged in career and technical, postsecondary, or adult education). Research grant programs are designed to provide interested individuals and the general public with reliable and valid information about education practices that support learning and improve academic achievement and access to education opportunities for all learners. These interested individuals include parents, educators, learners, researchers, and policymakers. In carrying out its grant programs, IES provides support for programs of research in areas of demonstrated national need. In awarding research training grant programs, IES aims to prepare individuals to conduct rigorous and relevant education and special education research that advances knowledge within the field and addresses issues important to education policymakers and practitioners.

Under this competition, NCER will consider only applications that address one of the following topics: 

• Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research 
• Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions 1 
• Methods Training for Education Researchers

Peer reviewers of the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions and the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research will be asked to evaluate the significance of the application, the quality of the research plan, the quality of the career development plan, the qualifications and experience of the personnel, the resources of the applicant to support the proposed activities, and the quality of the dissemination plan.

Peer reviewers for Methods Training for Education Researchers will be asked to evaluate the significance of the application, the quality of the research training plan, the qualifications and experience of the personnel, the resources of the applicant to support the proposed activities, and the quality of the dissemination plan.

Applicants must be a minority-serving institution (MSI) located in the territorial United States that confers bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degrees in academic fields relevant to education. 

Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (ALN 84.305B) use a training indirect cost rate as provided for under 34 CFR 75.562. This limits indirect cost reimbursement to an entity’s actual indirect costs, as determined in its negotiated indirect cost rate agreement, or eight percent of a modified total direct cost base, whichever amount is less.

Project period: Up to 4 years

For further information contact: Katina Stapleton, Katina.Stapleton@ ed.gov, (202) 245–6181