The University of South Carolina was awarded a $241,897 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant is part of the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076) and will support the development of integrated computer science curricula for linguistically diverse K-5 classrooms from September 2021 through August 2024. As part of the award, the University will create new lesson plans and teaching materials that...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,999,680 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Southern California (USC) to develop an "Intelligent, Adaptive Program with Just-in-Time Feedback for Preservice Teachers." This program aims to improve preservice teachers' evidence-based teaching practices, mathematical content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and teaching skills related to ratios and proportional relationships...
This three-year, $993,213 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development of K-8 computer science and computational thinking curricula and teacher professional development for multilingual learners. The University of California, Santa Cruz will prepare pre-service and in-service teachers to design curricula integrating these skills into science classes through collaborative design processes involving teachers, students, and...
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas was awarded a $435,679 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings. The grant is part of the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) and will support the development of integrated computer science curricula for linguistically diverse K-5 classrooms from September 2021 through August 2024. The University will create new lesson plans and teaching materials that incorporate computer...
This $299,997 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), is supporting the development of an AI-powered, app-based platform to deliver targeted instructional feedback and professional development to early childhood educators. The research team at the University of Notre Dame, the grant recipient, is collaborating with early education teachers to co-design the platform, which aims to provide timely feedback on teachers' shared book...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,150,000 Cooperative Agreement to Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit organization, to create engaging multimedia and in- and out-of-school experiences focused on encouraging young learners' interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education. This project, funded through the NSF's Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program and the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP), will develop virtual field trips to...
The National Science Foundation awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $648,696 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and research "Intelligent Science Stations" - a new genre of interactive, mixed-reality science learning experiences for students in grades K-4. The project aims to create four Intelligent Science Stations that incorporate scientific apparatuses like earthquake tables and balance scales, with an intelligent AI agent that provides...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $198,148 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) on March 1, 2021. The grant supports the RAPID project "The Impact of COVID on American Education in 2021: Continued Evidence from the Understanding America Study" to provide continued evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 and postsecondary education in the United...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $1,604,219 to develop an interactive virtual human exhibit communicating the capabilities and societal impacts of artificial intelligence. The University of Southern California leads the effort with subawards to Terc, Inc. and the University of California, Berkeley. Through July 2024, the grantees will create an immersive experience using virtual humans to engage the public on AI topics in an accessible,...
This $293,356 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project aims to understand the supports teachers need to adapt computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curricular materials for their specific classroom and community contexts. Through this...
The University of Southern California was awarded a three-year, $1,042,809 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop early childhood STEM education resources. The university will create a play-based computer science and pre-engineering education program for pre-K children, an online early childhood teacher professional development program, and accompanying child and teacher assessments. A randomized controlled trial will test the programs involving 30 teachers, 600 children in the intervention group, and matched numbers in the control group across six Los Angeles preschool sites serving linguistically and culturally diverse communities. The project aims to produce fully tested bilingual, bicultural products for national dissemination, including an exportable online modular early childhood STEM workforce training model focusing on junior computer science and pre-engineering concepts delivered through play-based learning.