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 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...
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...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $280,806 will fund Vanderbilt University to deliver products and services aimed at improving equity in STEM education through 2026. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports development and implementation of promising STEM education practices, the university will pursue three specific aims. The first is to assess impacts of incorporating Learning Assistants on sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and identity across...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support research at the University of California, Santa Barbara to advance the cognitive science of active learning in STEM courses. Over a two-year period, the fellow will conduct three controlled experiments manipulating dosage schedules and order of active learning and lecture components. The research aims to pinpoint instructional features that maximize equity,...
This $499,867 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded on October 1, 2023 under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support the creation of sophisticated assessments and data collection efforts to enhance STEM instruction and research across K-16 education. The project, led by Iowa State University, will establish eight working groups to address critical topics for ethical, large-scale data collection and diverse research collaborations. This will enable the expansion of the...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to North Carolina State University (NC State) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will develop new technologies to improve student learning in machine learning (ML) education. The $226,873 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2028, will create automated algorithms to generate personalized feedback, hints, and examples to support students in designing effective ML models, implementing them in code, and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to investigate essential competencies for data science literacy and how undergraduate students learn these fundamentals in introductory data science courses. The $331,452 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, will be led by Arizona State University (ASU) to serve the national interest by identifying priority data science competencies and...
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...