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...
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...
Texas State University received a $373,409 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2028. The award will support research aimed at understanding how perceptions of race influence evaluations of how bilingual children participate in mathematical activities, and exploring ways to counter deficit views that impact teacher and researcher perceptions. Through a participatory design...
This $845,762 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program supports a longitudinal study to investigate the classroom and psychosocial processes linked to mathematics engagement among racially diverse students from 6th to 8th grade. The study aims to identify patterns in student math engagement trajectories, examine how instructional and social characteristics...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is funding research to develop meaningful learning experiences for improving statistical literacy in secondary mathematics education. The $548,223 award to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will engage students and teachers in using statistical reasoning to interpret real-world data and make data-based arguments. The 2-year project will examine the development of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $221,003 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to conduct research on student interactions in small groups within belonging-oriented undergraduate mathematics classrooms that employ active learning approaches. The project aims to explore the experiences of students from non-dominant identity groups and their instructors during these group activities, analyzing their interactions,...
This $149,983 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop, implement, and evaluate web-based AI-driven classroom simulation tools that will improve evidence-based mathematics teaching practices. The project will create a suite of open-source simulations to support pre-service teachers in fostering rich mathematical discourse in their classrooms. It will also produce open data sets of mathematical dialogue and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $467,768 project grant under CFDA 47.076 (STEM Education) to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct a comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis of research on the impact of mathematics interventions on mathematics outcomes for PreK-12 students. The goal is to explore the effectiveness of mathematics instruction with different combinations of instructional and affective components, and for whom, on what outcomes, and under what...
Under a $158,787 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is conducting a multi-year collaborative research study examining how teacher education experiences influence pre-service elementary teachers' abilities to equitably notice and respond to children's mathematical thinking. The research will develop and evaluate resources, modules, and tools to help pre-service teachers learn about equitable...