Institute of Education Sciences (IES): National Center for Education Research (NCER): Statistical and Research Methodology in Education, Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305D
- Posted
- August 6, 2026
- Closed
- October 1, 2026
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Grant
- Assistance listing
- 84.305
- Category
- Education
- Archives
- October 31, 2026
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 84.305 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.
- FY2025 obligated
- $128.6M
- FY2026 obligated
- $81.9M
- FY2027 (to date) obligated
- $0
- Awards in window
- 265
Top recipients: American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Mdrc, University of Washington, Digital Promise Global, Regents of the University of Michigan
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
The goal of the Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (Stats/Methods) grant program (84.305D) is to provide a wide range of methodological and statistical tools that will better enable applied education scientists to conduct rigorous education research.
Under this program, NCER will consider only applications that address one of the following topics: (1) Core Grants or (2) Toolkits, Guidelines, Compendia, Review Papers, and Curated Data Resources (Toolkits). The Core Grants topic supports the development of new and improved statistical and research methods for use by education researchers. These methods are to be user tested by education researchers to ensure their usability, revised as needed, then broadly disseminated through different types of products such as articles in applied education journals, detailed working papers and monographs, workshops, software, and curated data resources. The Toolkits Grants topic supports compiling existing research and information for a given method into products, such as toolkits, guidelines, compendia, review papers, curated data resources, workshops that help education researchers understand and apply the method. These products are to be user tested by education researchers to ensure their usability, revised as needed, and then broadly disseminated.
Assistance Listing Number (ALN) 84.305D.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Institutions that have the ability and capacity to conduct scientific research are eligible to apply. Eligible applicants include, but are not limited to, non-profit and for-profit organizations and public and private agencies and institutions, such as colleges and universities.
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