This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $160,350 to Kennesaw State University Research And Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) aims to improve preservice elementary teachers' responsive teaching skills in mathematics. The project will develop, enact, evaluate, and refine three instructional modules that utilize AI-based chatbots to provide preservice teachers with extensive opportunities to practice and refine skills such as noticing,...
The University of Missouri System was awarded a $791,850 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program. The grant will fund a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the effectiveness of family engagement interventions on student outcomes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The university will analyze research published since 2001...
This $265,206 federal Project Grant award is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The award will support research by the University of Missouri System to examine the supply, qualifications, and career paths of STEM teachers in the United States. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year project include: Investigating the STEM teacher pipeline, from undergraduate/graduate...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,662,312, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The goal of the project is to enhance elementary school teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge of numbers and operations using an AI-based interactive professional development program. The program aims to create a personalized, active learning environment for teachers to improve their understanding of foundational math...
This Project Grant award, valued at $987,319.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination (CFDA 84.305) program. The funding will support the University of Missouri System's evaluation of a virtual classroom management training program for rural middle school teachers. The project aims to assess the effectiveness of this innovative training in improving teacher practices and student outcomes...
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 $750,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to The Curators of the University of Missouri, doing business as the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). The project aims to integrate large language models (LLMs) into the computer science curriculum to enhance student engagement, problem-solving, and ethical practices in software development. Specifically, the project will: (A) utilize...
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 Project Grant award from the Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program, provides $3,000,000.00 to the University of Missouri System (Curators of the University of Missouri) to acquire equipment and supplies to support STEM degree programs at its campuses. The award period is from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The University of Missouri System is a land grant institution that delivers...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded an $850,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a teacher-AI collaborative system for personalized reading comprehension instruction and assessment for students in kindergarten through second grade. The University will create innovative AI models to automatically generate question-answer pairs based on selected reading materials and tailor the...