IES 305N Grant competition 

NOTE: This funding from IES has passed but we expect that funding line to come again.

IES 305N RFP and Office Hour

RFP

• The RFP is available here. 

• Note: You can skip the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Research Teams section from pages 7-18 and focus on the IES grant competition 305N grant line with digital platforms.

Office Hour

• Get the Microsoft Teams meeting link in the section of "Digital Learning Platforms Network (also known as SEERNet) Research Teams (84.305N) — Open Discussion"

• November 13, 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET: Office Hour with Dr. Erin Higgins, E-TRIALS/ASSISTments, and two other digital platforms

Introduction

Who can participate

Have you ever wanted to run an experiment to improve math learning with thousands of K12 students, but did not have the money or resources? Good news!  IES is running the 305N grant competition again with $400,000-$1M for each grant.  IES already funded 5 platforms to add support for researchers (and E-TRIALS/ASSISTments platform is one of them). The first IES 305N award for $400,000 was just announced and the study will be run using E-TRIALS. 

More details can be found in the IES Request for Applications.

IES requires researchers to submit a feasibility letter from E-TRIALS along with their IES proposal submission. Researchers will need to submit a feasibility letter request to E-TRIALS.

Key dates

• On November 13, 2023 at 1-2pm ET, an office hour will be held with IES program officer Dr. Erin Higgins. Get the Microsoft Teams meeting link in the section of "Digital Learning Platforms Network (also known as SEERNet) Research Teams (84.305N) — Open Discussion"

• By November 30, 2023, feasibility letter request is due

• By January 11, 2024, IES Grant Applications are due

Feasibility Letter Request 

Submit requests to: etrials.305N@assistments.org

Applicants’ requests will include the following information: 

• 1-2 sentence overview of the project and its purpose

• List of the research questions to be addressed by the proposed study or studies

• Sample size and characteristics required for the proposed study or studies

• Research design

• Brief description of any measures, content, and/or instructional approaches that need to be implemented for the study(ies)

Webinar Recording from Last Year

E-TRIALS Affordances

E-TRIALS supports four types of research for this IES grant competition: 

Experiments to run in our platform:

• Support Comparison Studies: Embed studies into ASSISTments and use math problems in our content library. Use our subject pool. No recruitment needed.

• Problem Varied Studies: Create your own content in any areas to run studies in our platform. You will need to get your own subject pool.

• Skill Builder Studies: Use our skill builders to run studies. Use our subject pool. No recruitment needed.

Secondary Data Analysis with our public datasets such as our recent dataset with 50 experiments.

We like supporting other researchers. We have already helped a dozen researchers run studies and over 100 researchers publish secondary data analysis using ASSISTments data.  

Funded Grants using E-TRIALS Platform

The E-TRIALS platform has been used by external researchers for funded grants. 

Click here to see details about those grants. 

We'd love for you to participate.

Sign up if you are interested in 305N

 Email us with any questions

etrials.305N@assistments.org