NAEP Information for Researchers: IES Grant Opportunities, and NAEP Sessions and Training at AERA/NCME

Researchers using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data, stay current with these important updates!

IES Grant Opportunities:
IES has released FY2012 funding announcements for grant competitions in education and special education research and training. Letters of intent are due by April 21, 2011. Several of the grant programs are appropriate for NAEP research—for instance, Education Research Grants (84.305A); Special Education Research Grants (84.324A); Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (84.305D); and Evaluation of State and Local Education Programs and Policies (84.305E).

Go to http://ies.ed.gov/funding/  for complete information. See recently funded NAEP research at http://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/ . Also, be sure to take advantage of the periodic series of IES webinars related to research funding opportunities; see http://ies.ed.gov/funding/webinars/.

NAEP Sessions and Training at the AERA/NCME Conference:
If you are attending the AERA/NCME conference April 7–11, please take advantage of the training available on how best to use NAEP databases and analytical tools. Courses using NAEP data or offered by NAEP staff are described at
 http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/aera.asp.

NAEP is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences.