This $750,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve mathematics education for pre-service K-8 teachers at Arizona State University. The project will integrate visual computing technology and the engineering design process into an upper-division mathematics methods course, engaging approximately 180 pre-service teachers per year. Research will study the effectiveness of this interdisciplinary approach in...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,662,312, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The goal of the project is to enhance elementary school teachers' content and pedagogical content knowledge of numbers and operations using an AI-based interactive professional development program. The program aims to create a personalized, active learning environment for teachers to improve their understanding of foundational math...
This $139,691 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to investigate the impact of using video-based analysis to improve STEM teacher preparation, effectiveness, and retention in high-need school districts. The project will engage approximately 200 future and current STEM teachers across seven universities in video-based analysis activities within teacher preparation programs and induction support. The research will examine how...
The University of Illinois received a $674,248 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education to conduct research examining elementary mathematics teachers' behaviors and learning with an online professional development platform. The three-year award, issued on August 1, 2023 and set to be completed by July 31, 2026, will support the investigation of how elementary school teachers participate in and perceive their learning from an online platform...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate science education in the United States. The $113,972 award to Arizona State University will repeat a 2019 survey of approximately 18,000 instructors of first-year mathematics, chemistry, and physics courses across nearly 1,000 post-secondary institutions. This will allow the researchers to characterize...
This three-year, $984,603 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to investigate factors influencing the effectiveness and retention of secondary mathematics teachers in high-need school districts. The project, conducted by San Jose State University Research Foundation, seeks to identify individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors that shape early-career teachers' enactment of effective and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program grant, awarded under CFDA 47.076 STEM Education, provides $663,577 to Brigham Young University to develop a teacher learning sequence that supports secondary teachers in learning to effectively build on "mathematical opportunities in student thinking" (MOSTS) that emerge during classroom instruction. The overarching research question is to understand the extent to which this professional learning...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program project grant, awarded to WestEd, seeks to understand how a large, urban school district can implement a practice-based professional learning program for middle school science teachers. The $1,495,848 award, effective September 15, 2024 through August 31, 2028, will employ performance assessments as a lever for instructional improvement by eliciting, centering, and advancing students' thinking in science...
This $105,316 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports collaborative research to investigate the impact of video-based analysis of classroom teaching on STEM teacher preparation, effectiveness, and retention. The project aims to engage approximately 200 future and current STEM teachers at seven institutions across the country in video-based analysis to build skills in noticing inclusive approaches to STEM teaching. The...
This $149,983 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop, implement, and evaluate web-based AI-driven classroom simulation tools that will improve evidence-based mathematics teaching practices. The project will create a suite of open-source simulations to support pre-service teachers in fostering rich mathematical discourse in their classrooms. It will also produce open data sets of mathematical dialogue and...