This $235,672 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is supporting collaborative research to empower middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking (CT) into their science curriculum. The project aims to co-design 28 new CT-integrated science activities and provide professional development experiences for 84 science teachers on effectively incorporating CT into their instruction. It will also iteratively co-design and...
This $385,921 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and research of an AI Across the Curriculum program at North Carolina State University. The interdisciplinary team will create introductory and advanced modules integrating artificial intelligence concepts into existing high school mathematics, English language arts, and history curricula. They will also develop a 60-hour professional development program to train...
This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to transform K-12 STEM education by equipping high school teachers with the knowledge and skills to effectively incorporate AI technologies into their classrooms. The three-year project establishes a comprehensive professional development program that will recruit and train 10 high school STEM teachers per year, with a focus on serving underrepresented student populations. Key...
This Project Grant award of $804,974 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of learning trajectories and curriculum focused on middle school students' understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts. The project, led by New Mexico State University (NMSU) in collaboration with Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aims to design and pilot test learning activities and assessments based on these...
This federal Project Grant award for $489,803, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a collaborative research project called "AI by 8" led by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), North Carolina State University (NCSU), Partner to Improve (PTI), and educators from rural North Carolina school districts. The project aims to establish a research-practice partnership (RPP) to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) concepts,...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina State University a $1,166,886 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop the AI Play program model and associated curricular materials. The grant aims to introduce 500 middle school students and more than 20 teachers in rural North Carolina communities to artificial intelligence concepts through game design activities and professional development from May 2022 to April 2025. As part of the grant, Wested will...
This three-year, $516,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum modules integrated across high school core subjects and a professional development program for teachers. Led by the Concord Consortium, the project team which includes Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University, will create a two-hour introductory AI module and three five-hour...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $250,000 to the University of Virginia aims to develop, implement, and evaluate web-based AI-powered teaching 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...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $349,999, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The project, titled "Supporting Ambitious and Equitable Science Learning: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Developing Multimodal Formative Feedback," aims to investigate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to design automated feedback for multimodal formative science assessments in K-12 education. The project...
This $199,503 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will fund a large-scale, mixed-methods study to understand perceptions and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in K-12 education. The one-year project will survey a nationally representative sample of parents, teachers, and youth to identify opportunities, risks, and supports needed for integrating AI-driven learning tools. The study will employ both...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $564,135 to North Carolina State University (NC State) supports a collaborative research project to empower middle school teachers to integrate computational thinking (CT) into science classrooms. The project will co-design and test 28 new CT-integrated science activities, provide learning experiences to 84 science teachers through professional development, and iteratively co-design and test an AI-powered support toolset to aid teachers in making data-driven instructional decisions during these activities. Through subawards to WestEd, the project will leverage the organization's expertise in educational research, development, and service to contribute resources and support the successful completion of the project objectives. This award aims to advance understanding of how to prepare teachers to engage in AI-augmented teaching and human-AI partnerships for classroom support, with the goal of transforming the landscape of CT integration in science education.