This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $499,997 to conduct a meta-analysis on the relationships between teacher support, student engagement, and mathematics achievement. The principal investigator and her team at the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) will systematically review and meta-analyze existing evidence on the Instructional-Relational Model of student engagement and math achievement....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $359,824 Project Grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to deliver a 9-month training institute aimed at improving the methodological skills of STEM education researchers for conducting modern meta-analyses. The institute will provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to lead and conduct basic meta-analyses, as well as critically evaluate...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,785,274 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant aims to investigate changes to teachers' classroom practices after participation in different professional development models. The project will examine six prior NSF-funded professional development projects to better understand effective factors associated with teacher uptake, learning, and impact across diverse professional development...
This $640,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a 9-month training institute to improve the methodological skills of STEM education researchers for conducting modern meta-analyses. The institute will provide online pre-workshop activities, a 5-day in-person intensive workshop, and post-workshop support to enable participants to develop meta-analysis research projects that explore the effectiveness of STEM education...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program project grant for $1,502,771 will fund the development and pilot testing of an asynchronous, collaborative online professional learning (PL) course for middle grades mathematics teachers. The project aims to help teachers provide equitable mathematics instruction to their students by incorporating equity-based teaching practices, such as positioning students as mathematically competent. The 10 PL sessions will...
The American Institutes For Research In The Behavioral Sciences (AIR) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The three-year grant will fund AIR's project "IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATES? MOTIVATION AND RETENTION IN STEM THROUGH CLASSROOM INTERVENTIONS: A META-ANALYSIS" from July 2021 through June 2024. Through meta-analysis of existing research, AIR will identify effective...
This $389,897 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a three-year meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of writing instruction in secondary math and science classes. The project aims to: a) determine the overall impact of writing instruction on students' math/science achievement, math/science-specific writing, and general writing composition; b) identify factors that influence the effectiveness of writing instruction in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant awarded under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $697,718 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to expand the functionality of MetaReviewer, a free, web-based software tool that supports the conduct of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in STEM education research. The project will develop three new key features in MetaReviewer: (a) a literature search portal to manage literature search...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to build the capacity of the principal investigators (PIs) to conduct high-quality STEM education research. The $349,975 grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support a pilot research project to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing studies on the effectiveness of artificial intelligence (AI)-based tutoring tools in improving undergraduate...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $999,888 to Terc, Inc. to deliver the "Promoting Investigators' Capacity in STEM Education Literature Synthesis (PICSELS)" project. The project aims to build new capacity for performing qualitative meta-synthesis research studies among STEM education professionals. It will provide introductory and advanced training on meta-synthesis methods to 300 and 72 investigators...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources, CFDA 47.076) program for $996,169 provides funding for a research synthesis study to examine the relationships among teacher professional learning (PL) interventions, teacher knowledge and practice, and associated student outcomes in math and science education.
The research team at the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) will use meta-analysis techniques to uncover how teacher knowledge and instructional practices mediate the impact of PL programs on student achievement. They will also investigate how specific features of PL interventions moderate the relationship between PL and student outcomes. This information is critical for designing effective PL experiences that truly benefit student learning in STEM subjects.
As part of this project, AIR has sub-awarded work to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. to assist with examining the mediating and moderating relationships through meta-analytic structural equation modeling and meta-regression analyses. The researchers will make their data and analysis tools publicly available to support further research in this area by the broader education community.