This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings provides $902,020 to Indiana University from May 1, 2023 through April 30, 2026. The funding supports development of a curriculum to teach middle school students network visualization and data literacy concepts through exploration of topics relevant to their identities and communities. Specifically, the awardee will design, implement and study an instructional...
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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $849,931 to support a collaborative research project that aims to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project will work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students to understand how teachers can adapt next-generation STEM+CS curricular materials to their local school and community contexts. Key outcomes...
This $599,935 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the College of New Jersey's project to develop and implement a curriculum supplement initiative to train preservice K-8 teachers in data literacy skills. Over three years, the project aims to scale implementation of its five-session data visualization curriculum to 20 higher education faculty across the U.S. At least 400 preservice teachers will build exploratory data analysis and...
This $398,236 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to create a sustainable and adaptable framework for fostering critical thinking and inspiring diverse STEM learners. The project will develop a novel two-course structure, with advanced students studying advanced statistical methods and meeting weekly with introductory students studying persuasive data visualization. This cross-level approach is designed to promote sustained...
New York University was awarded a $374,400 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the development of curricular resources and tools to advance middle school students' critical data literacy skills. Over the three-year period from July 2023 to June 2026, New York University will collaborate with 10 teachers across four schools to co-design curricula and remixing tools that...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $499,960 will fund the development and research of integrating data literacy and text analytics instruction into middle school English language arts courses from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The goal is to build students' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills by analyzing textual data using techniques like word frequency visualization that are relevant to fields like data journalism and language...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,001,564 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Nurture Nature Center. The grant period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a new model for training middle school science teachers to instruct with complex scientific data visualizations and arts-based pedagogies. Three subawards totaling $1,001,564 were provided to the University of Colorado, Education Development Center, and J Sickler Consulting...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA #47.076 - STEM Education) provides $1,514,073.00 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to investigate how to support middle grades teachers in integrating data exploration and sensemaking practices into their science instruction. The project develops an instructional framework called "Data Puzzles" that uses real-world climate science data and web-based data analysis tools to help students build data literacy...
This $2,499,156 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of game-based learning experiences and research to promote middle school girls' interest and aspirations in data science. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the award was made on September 1, 2022 to the Concord Consortium, Inc. to complete the work by August 31, 2025. Under the award, Concord Consortium will create a social virtual world and data science game for middle school aged girls....
This $397,980 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development and study of an instructional curriculum on network visualization and data literacy concepts for middle school students. Digital Promise Global will create a curriculum unit that incorporates students' interests and cultural identities to engage 7th and 8th graders in network visualization practices using the open-source Net.Create software tool. Over three years, the project team will co-design the curriculum with partner school districts, study how students learn key concepts through creating their own network visualizations, and assess challenges and opportunities for teachers in using this approach. The grant period is from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2026.