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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $695,426 to Terc, Inc. to explore the integration of data science and civic education in middle school social studies classrooms. The project aims to (1) deepen students' data literacy, (2) develop their efficacy in working with civic datasets, and (3) create learning experiences connecting data to local community issues. Through a collaborative co-design process with middle...
This four-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), provides $1,290,229 to New York University to promote data literacy in high school students. The award will support developing interactive software tools and lesson plans for exploring and analyzing biometric data captured from wearable sensors. Students will learn about quantifying and interpreting personal data...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $304,786 Project Grant to Saint Louis University under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support collaborative research creating and testing data science learning tools for secondary students with disabilities from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2025. The grant will fund the development of data science curriculum and educational resources tailored to the needs of students with disabilities at the secondary level. These tools and...
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...
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 $331,452 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) to Arizona State University aims to identify essential competencies for data science literacy and investigate how undergraduate students learn these data science fundamentals in introductory courses. The project will use a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and interviews, to analyze current state of data science education and refine learning trajectories for a diverse student audience. A...
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 $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...
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...