Cooperative Agreement HU00011920012

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, titled "Promoting the Self-Regulated Use of Effective Learning Strategies in Gateway Undergraduate STEM Courses", provides $138,000 to support research investigating the effectiveness of a multi-component strategy training intervention on student learning and achievement in undergraduate chemistry and biology courses. The grant sponsors two large-scale experiments at Texas...

This $399,988 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop and test technology-based interventions to help introductory biology students improve self-regulation and learning. The project, led by the University of Colorado, will engage over 2,000 introductory biology students annually in reflective practices focused on motivation, metacognition, and self-regulation. The interventions will be integrated into a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $657,616 project grant under its STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for the project "Integrating Self-Regulated Learning into STEM Courses: Maximizing Learning Outcomes with the STSRL Framework." This 3-year effort aims to improve postsecondary students' academic success and retention in STEM disciplines by embedding effective self-regulated learning...

This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, funded in part under the Education and Human Resources and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers programs, provides $320,006 to Cornell University to improve educators' trust in and effective use of predictive learning analytics. Over the course of the project, the awardee will conduct online randomized controlled trials with 3,600 U.S....

This $377,501.42 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) is supporting research conducted by MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, on high-quality and efficient postsecondary randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and open science practices. The award runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025 and is focused on generating evidence-based strategies to enhance...

This federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $172,785 to the University of Rochester to develop machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools to predict future laboratory values and reduce laboratory overutilization in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The project, titled "ML-ROVER: Machine Learning to Reduce Laboratory Test...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $899,421 to Vanderbilt University to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted technologies that support reflection-based learning in nursing simulation training. The key products delivered under this 3-year award, beginning October 1, 2024, include: A multimodal data analysis pipeline to collect and integrate learning...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) received a three-year $548,722 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (formerly the Education and Human Resources program, CFDA 47.076) to develop and validate a model of self-regulated learning (SRL) in computer science education. Through this award, UNC-Chapel Hill will collect fine-grained digital trace data from students' interactions with programming tools in authentic...

The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $541,455 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to Seattle Children's Hospital to update school-based measurement of organization, time management, and planning skills for the modern secondary classroom. The project involves developing and piloting improved assessment tools for these critical executive function skills in secondary school students. Seattle...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $800,000 in funding to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to evaluate the impact of the "Bedside Notes" intervention on improving parent access to clinical notes and parent-reported outcomes for hospitalized children. The study will conduct a randomized controlled trial across 3 sites, with parents randomized to...