This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve fundamental data analytical skills for STEM students, with a focus on enhancing learning for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. The $346,385 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, will utilize a theme-based approach to deliver personalized learning experiences in introductory statistics courses at...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $398,236 to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to create a sustainable, adaptable framework for fostering critical thinking and inspiring diverse learners in STEM fields. The project aims to promote sustained interest and critical statistical thinking across undergraduate STEM education by implementing a novel two-course cross-level structure that pairs advanced...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University a $400,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and deliver a Targeted Infusion Project infusing data-centered pedagogy and data-analytical skills into introductory statistics courses. The University will integrate data-focused experiential learning activities and assignments into undergraduate statistics courses from July 2021 through June 2024. The STEM...
This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) is aimed at expanding and assessing the art and practice of statistical thinking in post-secondary statistics instruction. The grantee, Superior Statistical Research LLC, will provide faculty professional development through intensive workshops, sustained interactions, formative assessment, and support materials to help statistics instructors at over 600 institutions better align their...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $453,614 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside to enhance fundamental data analytical skills for STEM students, with a focus on improving accessibility and equity for Hispanic-serving institutions. The 4-year project, beginning October 1, 2024, will utilize a theme-based approach to deliver personalized learning experiences in introductory statistics courses. The goal is...
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 $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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $297,988 project grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to St. Mary's College of Maryland. The grant aims to develop, assess, and share psychology-based data science course materials for undergraduate education. The project will create data science-enhanced psychology laboratory research courses that embed and scaffold data science skills throughout the semester. These courses will strengthen...
This $515,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development of new statistical methods and research tools for conducting small-sample studies of teaching and learning in STEM fields. The research project, led by the University of Cincinnati, aims to derive new estimation procedures for cross-classified structural equation models that can generate robust findings from studies with smaller sample sizes, which is a...
This $320,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and delivery of ten data science courses to over 200 undergraduates from a consortium of eleven diverse universities. Led by Florida A&M University, the consortium will leverage distributed learning technologies to provide data science instruction and research experiences traditionally unavailable at smaller or minority-serving institutions. Through an...