Grants & Awards

This project represents a continuation of the ongoing collaborative effort between the University of Oregon Center on Teaching and Learning (CTL) and Age of Learning, Inc. to evaluate the effectiveness of the ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy, a comprehensive online early learning resource for children ages 2-6.

The overall goal of this project is to uncover the mechanisms through which COVID-19 has and will have short-term and long-term impacts on children’s reading skills.

In this study, the researchers will evaluate the impact of a widely used supplemental digital reading program (Boost Reading) in grades 2 through 5. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in use of educational technology programs to accelerate learning, particularly in reading.

The overarching goal of Project CIRCUITS (Center to Improve Reading Competence Using Intensive Treatments Schoolwide) is to implement, evaluate, replicate, and disseminate systemic prevention models that accelerate and sustain the early reading achievement of students with reading disabilities or at risk of disabilities in grades K-3.

The project is aimed at understanding patterns of visual attention among individuals with CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD) during storybook reading interactions before and after a print referencing strategy in introduced. 

The purpose of this project is to develop a new tablet-based measure in English and Spanish, Computer-Adaptive Storybook Assessment (CASA), to monitor language and literacy progress in preschoolers with disabilities or at risk for later language difficulties.

Contract to develop a K-3 Literacy Screener for Louisiana Department of Education in collaboration with Amplify Education, Inc.

EVI is a Goal 3 Efficacy and Replication study of a kindergarten vocabulary intervention developed by colleagues at the University of Connecticut. CTL is a subcontract to this research with sites in Oregon.
Effective Behavioral and Instructional Support Systems (EBISS) is an implementation project designed to increase student outcomes through effective district use of the Schoolwide Reading Model and PBIS.
EBISS (Effective Behavioral and Instructional Support Systems) is an implementation project designed to increase student outcomes through effective district use of the Schoolwide Reading Model and PBIS.
To provide professional development to Hawaii on the Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI) curriculum materials.
This project will adapt, refine, and evaluate a multi-tiered instructional framework in three K-3 elementary schools with large English language learner (ELL) populations to address ways to improve understanding of their reading achievement and language development needs, improve delivery, and support the administrators and teachers who work with t
The purpose of this project is develop a preschool early language and literacy progress monitoring tool in Spanish, Progress Monitoring-Spanish-Individual Growth and Development Indicators (PM-S-IGDIs), to complement a progress monitoring tool in English (PM-IGDIs) that will be developed with funding from IES.
The purpose of this project is to expand the Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDI) suite of psychometrically robust measures for Spanish-speaking dual language learners (DLLs) by developing and validating measures for 3-year-olds.
Overall The long-range objectives of the Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center are to use a multidisciplinary, multimethod, and multi-level approach to (a) substantially increase replicable knowledge about the nature of learning disabilities; (b) implement this knowledge in tools that potentially can improve the outcomes of individuals with

Explores the phenomenon of specific reading comprehension difficulties by using eye-tracking technology and traditional measures of language and literacy as a window on cognitive processes to examine how language background and facility among bilingual Spanish-English speakers is related to ease and difficulty in English reading comprehension am