This Project Grant award of $890,964 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the "Sustainable and Inclusive STEM for K-5 Environmental Sustainability Education" project at the College of New Jersey. The project aims to develop highly qualified K-5 teachers adept at using inclusive practices in STEM instruction and addressing global environmental challenges. Over 5 years, the project will engage two cohorts of 12 experienced K-5...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,001,564 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Nurture Nature Center. The grant period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a new model for training middle school science teachers to instruct with complex scientific data visualizations and arts-based pedagogies. Three subawards totaling $1,001,564 were provided to the University of Colorado, Education Development Center, and J Sickler Consulting...
This $348,706 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and implement a curricular program for middle-school students in community-based settings. The program will focus on building data visualization skills to help students become critical consumers and interpreters of data. The research goals are to provide empirical evidence of middle school students building data visualization practices through learning technologies and to...
This $1,514,073 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate how to support middle grades science teachers in integrating data literacy and sensemaking into their instruction. The project uses an instructional framework called "Data Puzzles" to develop teacher professional learning resources and models for helping teachers confidently incorporate data exploration and analysis into their science...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $695,426 to Terc, Inc. to explore the integration of data science and civic education in middle school social studies classrooms. The project aims to (1) deepen students' data literacy, (2) develop their efficacy in working with civic datasets, and (3) create learning experiences connecting data to local community issues. Through a collaborative co-design process with middle...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to County College of Morris (CCM) to establish a Data Science Institute. This project will build upon a previous NSF-funded initiative to create educational pathways and enhance data science skills across New Jersey, from high school to four-year institutions and employers. The Data Science Institute will offer workshops, training sessions, degree programs,...
This $397,980 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development and study of an instructional curriculum on network visualization and data literacy concepts for middle school students. Digital Promise Global will create a curriculum unit that incorporates students' interests and cultural identities to engage 7th and 8th graders in network...
This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve mathematics education for pre-service K-8 teachers at Arizona State University. The project will integrate visual computing technology and the engineering design process into an upper-division mathematics methods course, engaging approximately 180 pre-service teachers per year. Research will study the effectiveness of this interdisciplinary approach in...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $499,960 will fund the development and research of integrating data literacy and text analytics instruction into middle school English language arts courses from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The goal is to build students' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills by analyzing textual data using techniques like word frequency visualization that are relevant to fields like data journalism and language...
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 $599,935 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the College of New Jersey's project to develop and implement a curriculum supplement initiative to train preservice K-8 teachers in data literacy skills. Over three years, the project aims to scale implementation of its five-session data visualization curriculum to 20 higher education faculty across the U.S. At least 400 preservice teachers will build exploratory data analysis and question-asking abilities. The project will also assess changes in participants' data self-efficacy and refine/publish the open-access materials. Partial funding comes from NSF's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program. Expected completion is September 2025.