The National Science Foundation awarded a $850,000 Project Grant to Columbia University from the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for a project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SEEING SCIENCE: USING COMPUTER VISION TO EXPLORE THE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES BEHIND EVERYDAY OBJECTS." The project aims to develop computer vision algorithms and mobile phone applications to allow middle school students to observe and explore scientific phenomena in their everyday environments. Students will...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate the impact of video-based analysis of classroom teaching on STEM teacher preparation, effectiveness, and retention in high-need schools. The $157,753 award to Teachers College Columbia University will engage approximately 200 future and current STEM teachers across seven institutions in video-based analysis activities as part of their teacher preparation...
Teachers College Columbia University was awarded a $641,278 project grant from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a technological framework for fostering collaboration between novice makers and mentors/peers. The framework aims to link inexperienced creators with others who can offer guidance and feedback as they learn new skills. This project supports...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $107,941 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York Sponsored Projects Administration Division (Columbia University) on July 15, 2023. The grant supports a 3-year collaborative research project to use machine learning and eye-tracking technology to improve visual problem-solving in chemistry education. The project aims to...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York received a $770,635 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The funding supports a 5-year research project to examine the neural mechanisms underlying the benefits of using visuospatial summaries versus verbal summaries in learning STEM concepts. The project aims to investigate whether visuospatial explanations gain preferential access to memory consolidation processes, leading to...
This $399,924 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program will support Texas Southern University's TARGETED INFUSION PROJECT: ADVANCING BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCH AND UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN COMPUTER VISION. The project aims to improve computer vision curriculum and establish new educational and research infrastructures to engage underrepresented minority students. Specific activities include implementing and evaluating theoretical and hands-on computer vision...
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 (NSF) project grant award, under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, provides $1,609,724 to Teachers College Columbia University to co-develop and implement a locally relevant and integrated computer science curriculum that centers the lived experiences of rural Hawaiian students and communities. The project aims to improve student engagement and learning outcomes in STEM by creating learning materials aligned with students' cultural contexts and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $298,528 will fund a research and practitioner partnership between Columbia University, the City University of New York (CUNY), and the New York City Public Schools (NYCPS) to support the persistence and science teacher identity of pre- and in-service computer science (CS) educators from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM. The goal is to generate insights into...
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...
Teachers College Columbia University will receive $848,706 from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for a project grant titled "Collaborative Research: Seeing Science: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Scientific Principles Behind Everyday Objects." The funding is provided from Jul 1, 2022 to Jun 30, 2025.
The project aims to use computer vision algorithms and mobile devices to help middle school students learn science concepts through exploring their everyday environments. Students will take photos and videos around their homes and neighborhoods, and computer vision will overlay diagrams, models and simulations illustrating scientific phenomena like heat transfer and simple machines. This aims to make science more accessible and relevant by allowing students to observe and experiment with principles in their own lives. The funding will support developing the computer vision techniques to automatically build representations of scenes and enable educators to decide on educational overlays. It will also fund human-centered design work to bring the technologies to diverse students in accessible ways that achieve educational goals.