AERA Grants Program

American Educational Research Association

The Grants Program is open to field-initiated research and welcomes proposals that develop or benefit from advanced statistical or innovative quantitative methods or measures; analyze more than one large-scale national or international federally funded data set, or more than one statewide longitudinal data system (SLDS) or incorporate other data enhancements; integrate, link, or blend multiple large-scale data sources; or undertake replication research of major findings or major studies using large-scale, federally supported or enhanced data. Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while analyzing data and writing the doctoral dissertation. Proposals are encouraged from the full range of education research fields and other fields and disciplines engaged in education-related research, including economics, political science, psychology, sociology, demography, statistics, public policy, and psychometrics.