The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,935 Project Grant to the University of Delaware under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support research examining middle school students' understanding of graphical representations. Over a three-year period from June 2022 to May 2025, the University of Delaware will leverage a design-based methodology involving clinical interviews and small-scale teaching experiments to advance knowledge of how middle school students develop...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $351,072 to Texas State University to analyze mathematics classroom discourse using quantitative methods. The award aims to advance understanding of how classroom discourse builds student understanding in mathematics through temporal analyses of video recordings from middle grades classrooms. Statistical discourse analysis and social network analysis tools...
This $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support Texas State University in developing equitable group work strategies for proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses. Over a two-year period ending December 2025, the university will design and implement instructor workshops on incorporating group-worthy tasks adapted from K-12 complex instruction principles. It will also study the...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $333,835 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Texas State University to investigate the successful dissemination and adaptation of evidence-based mathematics instructional materials for life science students. The 3-year project aims to: (i) identify contextual factors that facilitate or impede implementation of a modeling-based math curriculum, (ii) understand how institutional conditions shape curriculum adaptation to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 Project Grant to Texas State University under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2025. The grant aims to develop a research-informed curriculum for transition to proof mathematics courses focused on guiding students to read, understand, and appreciate mathematical proofs through proof reading activities. Key products...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $651,683 to Texas A&M International University from March 1, 2023 through February 29, 2028. The grant aims to increase the number of outstanding STEM majors prepared as high-quality secondary mathematics teachers for South Texas school districts, which face challenges attracting and retaining such teachers. Specifically, the grant...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $842,811 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Texas A&M University to create and study an "Equitable and Interactive Mathematical Modeling (EIM2)" program. This four-year project aims to develop an interactive digital platform that empowers 6th and 7th grade students to engage in equitable mathematical modeling, where they can select scenarios based on their interests, experience visuals and animations,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) award of $399,797 to Dominican University provides funding to develop better teaching methods and assessment tools to improve undergraduate students' understanding of experimental design and application of science concepts to everyday life. The project aims to gather data on student and faculty understanding of experimental design, develop interventions to support metacognitive skill development related to experimental...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve fundamental data analytical skills for STEM students, with a focus on enhancing learning for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. The $346,385 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, will utilize a theme-based approach to deliver personalized learning experiences in introductory statistics courses at...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $487,772 to Texas State University to prepare engaged STEM teachers through multi-level peer mentoring and early teaching experiences from June 2023 through May 2028. The university will recruit and provide scholarships to 20-30 STEM majors, primarily in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, seeking teacher certification. Scholars will participate in...