The University of Texas at Austin received a $390,536 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences on September 1, 2021 to complete the project by February 28, 2025. The grant is funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science resources. Specifically, the University will conduct an artificial language...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $199,944 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research and develop educational materials from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024. The university will analyze mathematical discourses used in civic engagement discussions regarding school district changes which disproportionately impact communities of color. Researchers will observe and compare quantitative measures used by community...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $1,368,414 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct research from June 2023 through May 2028. The research aims to improve technological equity by investigating the lack of diverse, representative datasets and insights in technology development. The university will examine how to best engage marginalized groups in data-centric research through culturally relevant and ethically...
The University of Texas at Austin received a $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The award is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) and will fund research using linguistic variation to understand deep neural models of language from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. As part of the grant, the University will conduct investigator-initiated research exploring how...
This Project Grant award of $1,296,683.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Southern Methodist University's research on using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to personalize mathematics instruction for 7th grade students. The project aims to explore the impacts and opportunities when using GenAI to construct personalized algebra problems that connect to students' interests in areas like sports or video games. The research will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $169,965 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for a 3-year collaborative research project. The project aims to use innovative sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture and analyze teacher language interactions with preschool children in diverse classroom settings. The goal is to gain insights into how teacher-child language experiences...
Texas State University received a $373,409 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2028. The award will support research aimed at understanding how perceptions of race influence evaluations of how bilingual children participate in mathematical activities, and exploring ways to counter deficit views that impact teacher and researcher perceptions. Through a participatory design...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $467,768 project grant under CFDA 47.076 (STEM Education) to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct a comprehensive systematic review and network meta-analysis of research on the impact of mathematics interventions on mathematics outcomes for PreK-12 students. The goal is to explore the effectiveness of mathematics instruction with different combinations of instructional and affective components, and for whom, on what outcomes, and under what...
This $374,191 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program will fund research at Texas State University to develop a theoretical framework and instructional resources focused on middle school students' graph literacy development. Over a five-year period from February 2023 to January 2028, the university will conduct task-based clinical interviews with middle school students to examine their cognitive strategies and intuitive insights when reading...
This National Science Foundation award provides $293,841 to Texas State University under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to advance understanding of middle school students' development of graphing skills. Over a three-year period ending in May 2025, the university will engage in design-based research to study how students comprehend coordinate systems and create/interpret graphs. Researchers will conduct clinical interviews and small-scale teaching experiments to develop a theory...