This $156,614 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to characterize the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate science instruction in the United States. The project will re-survey approximately 18,000 instructors across chemistry, mathematics, and physics disciplines at nearly 1,000 post-secondary institutions to understand changes in the use of research-based instructional practices since the initial 2019...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,785,274 in funding to Arizona State University to investigate changes in teachers' classroom practices after participating in different professional development models. The four-year study, starting on September 15, 2024, will examine six prior NSF-funded professional development projects to understand factors influencing teacher uptake, learning, and impact over time....
The National Science Foundation awarded a $198,148 Project Grant to the University of Southern California under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) on March 1, 2021. The grant supports the RAPID project "The Impact of COVID on American Education in 2021: Continued Evidence from the Understanding America Study" to provide continued evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 and postsecondary education in the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) award of $333,835 to Texas State University aims to investigate the successful adaptation and dissemination of evidence-based instructional materials for improving undergraduate STEM education, with a focus on mathematics curricula for life science students. The project will document the contextual factors and dynamic conditions that facilitate or impede the implementation of a modeling-based mathematics curriculum, and...
This $4,304,961 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the 2027 National Survey of Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering Education (NSSME+). The study, conducted by Horizon Research, Inc. with assistance from Westat, will collect comprehensive data on the status of STEM education in the United States, including policies, teaching practices, course offerings, and factors influencing student participation. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded Science Education Solutions, Inc. a $746,321 Project Grant under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support the COVID-INSPIRED DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH EPIDEMIOLOGY project. The two-year project, funded from March 2021 to February 2023, will develop epidemiology-focused data science curriculum and teacher professional development to advance STEM education. Leveraging insights from the COVID-19 pandemic, the awardee will...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support research at the University of California, Santa Barbara to advance the cognitive science of active learning in STEM courses. Over a two-year period, the fellow will conduct three controlled experiments manipulating dosage schedules and order of active learning and lecture components. The research aims to pinpoint instructional features that maximize equity,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $778,131 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Nebraska from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026. The grant will support research to evaluate how open educational resources facilitate implementation of Vision and Change core concepts and competencies across diverse higher education institutions. As the lead awardee, the University of Nebraska will collaborate with other institutions to study how open...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $172,947 will fund the development of open response assessments to evaluate undergraduate student engagement in mathematical sensemaking across biology, chemistry, and physics disciplines. Awarded under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the funding will support two aims over a four year period from March 2023 through February 2027.
The first aim is to apply an evidence-centered design process to develop open-ended assessment...
The National Science Foundation awarded Texas Christian University a $469,066 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to study the impact of different learning modalities on science and mathematics teachers' effectiveness and retention during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to understand how high-need school districts' decisions about in-person, remote, and hybrid learning during COVID-19 affected STEM teachers. It will analyze district and school-level data to...