The University of Chicago received a three-year, two-hundred thirty-six thousand seven hundred eighty dollar Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program to conduct research examining elementary mathematics teachers' behaviors and learning with an online professional development platform. The university will explore how elementary school teachers participate in and perceive their learning from asynchronous online resources for mathematics teaching, including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $603,043 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Illinois for the "Math Partners: Collaborations to Support Early Math Learning" project. The project aims to help teachers and families build strong partnerships to support early math learning for young children. The grant will fund teacher professional development, classroom design teams, and family engagement practices focused on centering...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct the project "ENHANCING EQUITY AND ACCESS VIA DIGITALLY-MEDIATED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES" from October 15, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,785,274 to investigate changes in teachers' classroom practices after participating in different professional development models. The 4-year study, beginning in September 2024, will examine six prior NSF-funded professional development projects to better understand effective factors associated with teacher uptake, learning, and impact. The research team, led by...
The University of Illinois was awarded a $299,472 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct a research study from October 2021 through September 2024. The grant will fund a project to understand optimal group sizes for face-to-face and virtual research methods courses for undergraduate psychology majors. As part of NSF's broader mission to ensure the vitality of the U.S. STEM education...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $653,723 project grant under its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program to the University of Illinois. The 4-year project will develop and test a professional development model that empowers high school science teachers to adapt curriculum materials to integrate students' knowledge and community resources. Working with education researchers, teachers, scientists, and community organizations, the project teams will go through cycles of...
This $1,783,246 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to create online curricula and conduct research to prepare future middle and high school mathematics teachers to effectively use web-based dynamic geometry technology tools to facilitate productive classroom discussions on geometric concepts. The project has three key goals: 1) develop online modules to train future teachers on using technology to lead productive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 will support the development of an AI-enhanced platform to empower K-12 teachers with high-quality and inclusive math instruction. The project aims to tackle challenges in K-12 math education by integrating new AI models to assist teachers in generating personalized lesson materials, providing formative assessment, auto-scoring, and generating diagnostic reports...
The National Science Foundation awarded $599,996 under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Illinois on July 1, 2022 for completion by December 31, 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of engineering student decision-making behavior in selecting a degree program and develop an online decision support system. The University of Illinois will collect survey data from students at the University of Illinois...
The University of Illinois received a $674,248 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to conduct research examining elementary mathematics teachers' behaviors and learning with an online professional development platform. The three-year award, issued on August 1, 2023 and set to be completed by July 31, 2026, will support the investigation of how elementary school teachers participate in and perceive their learning from an online platform containing videos, discussions and other mathematics teaching resources. As part of the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the research aims to develop profiles of different participation levels and test how design interventions can positively influence teacher behaviors linked to improved teaching and student outcomes. Key deliverables include analyzing teacher interaction data, surveying participation styles and testing design strategies to enhance the platform's ability to facilitate professional learning for mathematics instructors.