Project Grant 2122701

This three-year, $999,806 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and dissemination of computational thinking (CT) resources and professional learning experiences for K-5 teachers. Awarded to Southern Oregon University on October 1, 2022 and set to be completed by September 30, 2025, the grant enables a research-practitioner partnership involving 20 teachers. The partnership will examine how CT concepts become more...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $499,954 awarded in September 2022 will fund Education Development Center, Inc. to research tools supporting the school-wide integration of computational thinking at the elementary school level. The award is provided through the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), which aims to ensure the vitality of the Nation's STEM education. Under the grant, Education Development Center will create tools for...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $889,785 to Cornell University from October 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023 to integrate computational thinking into English language arts and math curricula for grades K-5. The goal is to build an onramp to computer science education for younger students. Cornell will support research design, analysis, and project management. Additionally, $50,000 of the award will...

The Building Knowledge in Computing through Early Literacy Strategies (BELLS) project, funded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), received a $269,916 Project Grant award on September 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2027. The National Girls Collaborative, in collaboration with the Institute for Advancing Computing Education and Minnesota State University, Mankato,...

This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,300,000 to the University of Virginia to develop low-cost, adaptable physical computing tools such as robots to provide equitable opportunities for elementary and middle school students to learn computer science (CS) skills and concepts. The project aims to investigate how these educational robots can help students develop CS understanding and executive functioning skills, while...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to gain deeper insights into how undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics approach and comprehend fundamental discrete mathematics concepts. The $175,000 award to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation will span one academic year from August 2024 to July 2025. The project will utilize a novel analytical approach combining the frameworks of...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, totaling $144,497, will fund research examining culturally responsive measures of reasoning and executive function development among Latinx and European American children. Led by researchers at California State University, Fullerton, the project aims to refine developmental models of these cognitive skills by exploring how meaningful participation in everyday social and...

The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $163,357 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the collaborative research project "Rethinking Circle Time: Integrating Computational Thinking into K-2 Literacy" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise. This particular award will fund Indiana...

This $227,619 National Science Foundation Project Grant will support the development of a culturally relevant immersive virtual learning environment to advance spatial computational thinking skills and career awareness among upper elementary Latinx students. Funded through the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the project aims to design Minecraft: Education Edition experiences that incorporate bilingual visual programming functions and culturally aligned content. Participants will...