This National Science Foundation award provides $293,841 to Texas State University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to advance understanding of middle school students' development of graphing skills. Over a three-year period ending in May 2025, the university will engage in design-based research to study how students comprehend coordinate systems and create/interpret graphs. Researchers will conduct clinical interviews and small-scale teaching experiments to develop a theory...
This $374,191 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program will fund research at Texas State University to develop a theoretical framework and instructional resources focused on middle school students' graph literacy development. Over a five-year period from February 2023 to January 2028, the university will conduct task-based clinical interviews with middle school students to examine their cognitive strategies and intuitive insights when reading...
The University of Delaware was awarded a $651,546 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076). The grant will support the development of equitable mathematics instruction through rubric-based coaching from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. As part of this project, the University of Delaware will collaborate with K-12 teachers to provide coaching and professional...
This $887,316 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a study on the impact of "rough draft mathematics" teaching approaches on middle school students' engagement and motivation in learning mathematics. The University of Delaware, the prime awardee, will (1) observe teaching practices that promote rough drafting and revising in 24-32 middle school classrooms across three school districts, (2) analyze students'...
This $385,799 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research and educational activities through August 2024 under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The University of Delaware will leverage educational data mining to understand how undergraduate computer science students regulate learning and draw on motivational resources. Initial findings aim to inform a just-in-time learning intervention to improve study patterns. The project also seeks to increase participation of...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $468,565 supports a research project at the University of Delaware titled "Investigating How Opportunities to Learn Culturally Responsive Teaching Influence Beginning Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Effectiveness and Retention." The project, funded under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076), aims to explore how teacher education programs prepare elementary teachers for culturally...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $240,002 Project Grant to the University of Delaware from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (47.049) federal grant program. The grant supports research into Neural Network Learning for Graph Data. The University of Delaware will develop methodologies, theoretical frameworks, and perform simulation and experimentation to advance the mathematics and science of graph neural...
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 National Science Foundation project grant of $961,684 awarded on October 1, 2021 will fund research and dissemination activities under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) through October 31, 2023. Iowa State University is the primary awardee and will partner with Education Development Center and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte on subawards to study the experiences of successful doctoral students from underrepresented groups in mathematics. Through in-depth interviews...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a $496,337 research project to assess the malleability and impact of mature number sense among 3rd through 8th grade students. The research team at the University of Notre Dame will study how students' mature number sense - their ability to make sense of numbers, notice patterns, and flexibly select problem-solving strategies - changes over the course of an academic year and...