This federal Project Grant award, valued at $1,785,274.00 and issued by the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, supports a four-year study on investigating changes to teachers' classroom practices after participating in different professional development models. The key products and services delivered through this STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) grant include survey data collection, simulated recall interviews, semi-structured...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $937,260 Project Grant to The Regents of the University of Colorado under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to study how multi-digit number names and written symbols guide early elementary students' attention, memory, and place value learning. Over three years from July 2022 to June 2025, the University will conduct three experimental studies with kindergarteners using eye-tracking technology, assessments of students' place value knowledge, and...
This federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award, totaling $860,227 and commencing on Aug 15, 2024, will explore the use of modified number board games to improve numeracy skills in primary school students, ages 5-7 years. The project will test the effects of organizing the game board in a matrix format, similar to a hundreds chart, to support children's recognition of numeric patterns. This...
This $496,337 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a study on the malleability and impact of mature number sense among 3rd-8th grade students. The researchers at the University of Notre Dame will examine how students' mature number sense, which involves making sense of numbers and operations, changes over the course of a school year and across grade levels. They will collect student assessment data and conduct...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education project grant award, funded under CFDA 47.076, will support research on the development of children's number and spatial math skills from toddlerhood through early elementary school. The $1,499,147 award, effective August 15, 2024, will be utilized by the University of Pittsburgh to examine the associations between children's home math environments and their math skill gains from 1st to 2nd grade. The research will also investigate the...
This $887,316 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a study on the impact of "rough draft mathematics" teaching approaches on middle school students' engagement and motivation in learning mathematics. The University of Delaware, the prime awardee, will (1) observe teaching practices that promote rough drafting and revising in 24-32 middle school classrooms across three school districts, (2) analyze students'...
This $499,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program (CFDA 47.076) aims to establish and pilot a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student learning processes and classroom dynamics. The goal is to advance understanding of how student-level factors and classroom experiences interact to influence STEM learning, particularly for historically marginalized populations. Key...
This $845,762 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program supports a longitudinal study to investigate the classroom and psychosocial processes linked to mathematics engagement among racially diverse students from 6th to 8th grade. The study aims to identify patterns in student math engagement trajectories, examine how instructional and social characteristics...
The University of California, San Diego will conduct a multi-year, multi-site collaborative research project on early childhood numeracy development under a $1.165 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The research will involve over 130 sites testing more than 3,000 children ages 2 to 5 years old across the United States and 27 other countries. Two foundational studies will examine how young children perceive and learn about...
This $380,433 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to understand the current conditions, challenges, and resources related to middle school mathematics education in rural areas of the United States. The project will involve a national survey of rural middle school mathematics educators and administrators, followed by in-depth interviews. The project...