This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $455,578 to Boston College to study student engagement and learning with intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). The project aims to complement ITS log data with neurophysiological measures, such as eye gaze, EEG, and heart rate, to better understand when and why students disengage from ITSs. The researchers will also experimentally manipulate the level of tutor assistance...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program, CFDA 47.076 STEM Education, will establish a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student learning behaviors, cognition, and interactions within classroom settings. The $499,998 award to the University of Virginia will fund the incubation and piloting of this research platform, which aims to produce metrics on student-level factors that influence STEM...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award to Louisiana State University (LSU) in the amount of $138,601 aims to increase the use of project-based learning in undergraduate software engineering courses. The project will design, develop, and evaluate a reference software engineering course with a repository of 12 ready-to-use projects and associated active learning activities. These resources are intended to enable instructors to more easily...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $172,947 will fund the development of open response assessments to evaluate undergraduate student engagement in mathematical sensemaking across biology, chemistry, and physics disciplines. Awarded under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the funding will support two aims over a four year period from March 2023 through February 2027. The first aim is to apply an evidence-centered design process to develop open-ended assessment items...
This $300,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop a "Professional Informatics" (Pro-I) system using classroom sensing technologies. The goal is to provide instructors personalized feedback on their teaching practices to help create more equitable learning experiences, especially to increase underrepresented student participation in STEM fields. The project will...
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 $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund Bridgewater State University's efforts to improve STEM undergraduate student outcomes through partnerships, mentoring, and high-impact practices. Over six years, the university will provide scholarships and additional supports to three cohorts of 35 low-income, high-achieving undergraduates pursuing STEM degrees. Students will receive mentoring from faculty, diverse STEM...
This $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of an AI-based learning support system to provide personalized educational content for large-scale university courses in sustainability science. The key components of the project include: Designing and evaluating a system to interview students about their backgrounds and transform this data into a knowledge graph representation to inform...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $383,172 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of South Florida to develop and evaluate the use of adaptive learning platforms (ALPs) in five undergraduate engineering courses. The project aims to compare student cognitive and affective outcomes between courses using ALP-delivered adaptive pre-class lessons versus one-size-fits-all pre-class activities delivered through the learning management system...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $199,967 to Colorado State University to conduct an exploratory research project leveraging large language models to analyze qualitative data gathered from underrepresented students in STEM disciplines. The project seeks to refine an emerging methodology for characterizing STEM students as decision-makers in environments that attract or...