UW–Madison’s Hyunwoo Yang is a recipient of a Dissertation Grant Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA) for his project titled, “The Effects of Wisconsin’s Universal 4K Program on Academic Achievement Gaps.”
Yang is a doctoral student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.
Yang is among nine recipients of dissertation awards, including two from UW–Madison, selected through and supported by the AERA-NSF Grants Program. The other UW–Madison recipient is Elise Marifian, a doctoral student in economics.
The grants provide advanced graduate students with $25,000 for one year as they write up their research. In addition, scholars participate in professional development and training activities aimed at building their research capacity and encouraging the use large-scale data in education research.
Since 1990, the AERA-NSF Grants Program has supported over 600 graduate students and early career scholars as they launched their careers and developed their research agendas in STEM education research.
“The AERA-NSF Grants Program supports some of the most promising STEM education research that draws from large-scale data sets and state longitudinal administrative data,” said Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University), chair of the program’s governing board. “The program supports new and early career scholars who are expanding how we use large-scale data to understand and inform education practices and policies.”
Current and former AERA-NSF Grants Program grantees will present their research in poster sessions during the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting in San Diego. For more information about the Grants Program, visit the AERA website.