Grants

Funded Grants


Role: Co- Principal Investigator                                                              2023-2027  

Project ReSpECT: Revealing Special Educators’ Conditions for Teaching

Funding Source: Institute of Education Sciences

Total Budget: $2,000,000

UF Subaward Budget: $356,552

 

Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Semi-finalist round)                          2023

Storiza: A story-telling reading assistant for children with disabilities

Funding Source: National Science Foundation’s Vital Prize

Total Budget: currently funded at Semi-Finalist level ($20,000)

 

Role: Developer and Instructor                                                               2023

Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Course       

Funding Source: University of Florida Center for Undergraduate Research

Total Budget: $3,000

 

Role: Advisor for Funded Externship Project                                   2022

Project: How does student participation in the extended school year (ESY) program in Summer 2021 impact student performance at the end of the year in 2022? 

Funding Source: Pasco County Schools

Total Stipend: $5,500

Advisor Stipend: $2,000

 

Role: Advisor for Funded Externship Project                                       2022

Project: Differences in performance of students who are in elementary classrooms with teachers who specialize instruction compared to students in elementary classrooms with teachers who do not specialize

Funding Source: Pasco County Schools

Total Stipend: $5,500

Advisor Stipend: $2,000

 

Role: Co-Principal Investigator                                                               2021-2024

CRAFT: Culturally Responsive, Affective-Focused Teaching of Science and Mathematics

Funding Source: National Science Foundation

Total Budget: $1,488,530

 

Role: Key Personnel                                                                             2021-2022

Learning Trajectories for Everyday Computing: Integrating Computational Thinking and Elementary Mathematics

Funding Source: National Science Foundation

Total Budget for Key Personnel work: ~$20,000 + Graduate Assistant support

 

Role: Developer and Instructor                                                           2021

Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Course        

Funding Source: University of Florida Center for Undergraduate Research

Total Budget: $4,000

 

Role: Principal Investigator                                                                2019-2022

Project DIMES: Diagnostic Instrument for Morphology of Elementary Students

Funding Source: Institute of Education Sciences

Total Budget: $1,290,952

 

Role: Co-Principal Investigator                                                          2016-2021

Precision Education: The Virtual Learning Lab

Funding Source: Institute of Education Sciences

Total Budget: $8,832,035

 

Role: Advisor for Funded Externship Project                                   2020

How well does the NWEA MAP predict FSA performance for students in elementary grades?

Funding Source: Pasco County Schools

Total Stipend: $5,500

Advisor Stipend: $2,000

 

Role: Co-Principal Investigator                                                          2019-2020

The Impact of Dialogic Reading Intervention on Low Income Preschool Children’s Knowledge of Emotion Vocabulary and Emotion Causes

Funding Source: Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood

Total Budget: $37,552

 

Role: Statistical Consultant                                                                 2019

Supporting Teacher Enactment of the Probability and Statistics Standards (STEPSS)

Funding Source: Institute of Education Sciences

Total Budget for Consultation work: ~$10,000

 

Role: Co-Principal Investigator                                                      2019

5-minute Measurement: A YouTube Video Series

Funding Source: National Council on Measurement in Education, 2018-2019 Mission Fund Grant Program

Total Budget: $10,000

 

Role: Principal Investigator                                                                2018

Predictive Analysis of English Language Arts Benchmarks for Grade K-12 Students

Funding Source: Contract with District School Board of Pasco County

Total Budget: $5,000

 

Role: Advisor for a Joe E. Covington Research Project                   2016

Acting as advisor for a graduate student research project in psychometrics

Funding Source: National Conference of Bar Examiners

Total Stipend: $7,000

Advisor Stipend: $1,000

 

Role: Principal Investigator                                                                2016

Graduate Student Assistantship for the Development of a Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Morphological Awareness

Funding Source: UF School of Human Development in Organizational Studies in Education

Total Budget: $15,000

 

Role: Principal Investigator                                                                2015-2016

Development of a Diagnostic Tool for Assessing Morphological Awareness

Funding Source: UF College of Education- College Research Incentive Fund

Total Budget: $39,000

 

Role: Key Personnel                                                                             2014

Understanding Data: A Course for Addressing the Grand Challenge of Data Literacy

Funding Source: University of Florida

Total Budget: $31,250

 

Role: Statistical Consultant                                                             2011-2013

Developing and Evaluating a Technology-Based Fractions Intervention Program for Low-Achieving and At-Risk Students

Funding Source: Institute of Education Sciences

Hourly pay over the course of 2 years

 

Role: Statistical Consultant                                                             2007-2014

Promoting Science among English Language Learners (P-SELL)

Funding Sources over multiple grants: National Science Foundation & Institute of Education Sciences

Hourly pay over the course of 7 years