Rice University
For An International Research Study To Measure Students’ Social And Emotional Skills
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Amount$710,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/17/2018
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Term40 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
The Houston Education Research Consortium is a partnership between Rice University and Houston-area school districts that produces research to inform decision making. The group will represent the United States in an international survey coordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to measure students’ skills at ages 10 and 15. The Study on Social and Emotional Skills will demonstrate the feasibility of producing valid, reliable, and comparable information on such skills across countries and settings; additionally, it will provide analyses that can improve education and support services.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rice.edu
Address
6100 Main Street, MS-16, Houston, TX, 77005-1892, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for building the field for partnership research
The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships at Rice University is a professional learning community supporting collaboration among researchers and practitioners working in education. The group will work with Stanford University; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice to build capacity in the field for partnership research. The goal is to make educational research more useful and impactful and ultimately to support equitable outcomes in education. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)
for creating free open community college textbooks
We propose a renewal grant to the OpenStax project at Rice University to continue developing market-quality, peer-reviewed open textbooks. This large-scale effort, co-funded by the Michelson, Gates, Arnold, and Maxfield foundations, would provide market-quality open textbooks for the twenty-five community college courses in highest demand. In addition, OpenStax is partnering with a number of for-profit companies for distribution. This renewal would support Phase 3 of the project, building the next ten textbooks for a total of twenty open textbooks covering twenty-five semesters of material.
