Project Grant 1649342

This five-year $815,789 CAREER grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will investigate the design of an after-school mathematics program to expand conceptions of mathematics for both elementary students and their teachers. The project, conducted by Northwestern University, seeks to create a community of practice that encourages students to view mathematics as creative and engaging, while also helping teachers develop their capacity to recognize...

The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York received a $700,033 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant aims to improve secondary mathematics education through a teacher preparation program that emphasizes community, equity, and inclusion. Over 5 years, the project will recruit 24 undergraduate mathematics majors and prepare them to become effective middle and high school mathematics teachers for...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of four curricular modules to foster STEM thinking and integration in mathematics courses for elementary education majors at Marquette University. The modules aim to provide authentic problem-solving experiences for pre-service teachers related to quantitative relationships using ratios, proportions, scaling, measurement and estimation. Informed by the Next Generation Science Standards, Standards for Technological...

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, located in Bloomsburg, PA, to improve student success in first-year STEM courses. The project aims to implement two proven approaches - the co-requisite model and the Learning Assistant (LA) model - to increase college completion and retention, particularly for disadvantaged students, in STEM degree programs. Through the co-requisite model, students with...

This $1,783,246 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to create online curricula and conduct research to prepare future middle and high school mathematics teachers to effectively use web-based dynamic geometry technology tools to facilitate productive classroom discussions on geometric concepts. The project has three key goals: 1) develop online modules to train future teachers on using technology to lead productive...

This $330,021 STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (CFDA 47.076) awarded by the National Science Foundation supports a two-year project to advance community-engaged mentoring approaches for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. The project aims to: (1) develop a theory of community-engaged mentoring to support justice-oriented pedagogies, (2) increase understanding of mentoring practices related to justice-oriented mathematics teaching, and (3) create a new model for secondary...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $1,549,821 to the University of Delaware will develop and test the "Orienting Positive Emotions in New Educators for Mathematics (OPEN for Math)" professional learning program. The program aims to help beginning elementary teachers create equitable and positive mathematics classroom environments by supporting their ability to leverage the emotions they and their students experience when...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development of a virtual classroom platform that uses large language model (LLM) simulated agents to facilitate collaborative learning of mathematical modeling for middle-school students. The $321,873 project aims to increase equitable access to effective mathematics education, particularly for students from under-resourced communities, by leveraging generative AI techniques....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education aims to develop and evaluate an empirically-defensible model for increasing STEM persistence and graduation rates among underrepresented students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the $500,000 award made to Our Lady of the Lake University on January 1, 2023 will support redesigning the institution's College Algebra course into three...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $637,498 supports Prairie View A&M University in building a community of racially and ethnically diverse secondary mathematics and science teachers. Funded under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the five-year project beginning July 15, 2023 aims to prepare 24 underrepresented minority students as STEM teachers through a bridge-to-teaching program, learning communities using the UTeach...