Researcher Awarded $3 Million Federal Grant To Study Writing Intervention
Researcher Awarded $3 Million Federal Grant To Study Writing Intervention
Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development associate professor Cynthia Puranik has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to study a writing intervention program.
The grant project, entitled, “Peer Assisted Writing Strategies (PAWS): Efficacy,” will test the effectiveness of the PAWS writing intervention in improving writing outcomes for young, beginning writers.
The PAWS intervention pairs students together to work on various writing lessons, which include writing letters, punctuation, spelling and sentence construction.