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 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 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 $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...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,001,564 project grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Nurture Nature Center. The grant period is from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to develop a new model for training middle school science teachers to instruct with complex scientific data visualizations and arts-based pedagogies. Three subawards totaling $1,001,564 were provided to the University of Colorado, Education Development Center, and J Sickler Consulting...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Program (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award to Iowa State University of Science and Technology provides $305,912 from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027 to examine how accurately U.S. adults interpret different types of data visualizations. The researchers will implement an online survey of 2,000 respondents to measure their understanding and interpretation of various data visualization designs, such as bar and...
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 $1,514,073 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate how to support middle grades science teachers in integrating data literacy and sensemaking into their instruction. The project uses an instructional framework called "Data Puzzles" to develop teacher professional learning resources and models for helping teachers confidently incorporate data exploration and analysis into their science...
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...