This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $419,963 to BSCS Science Learning, a non-profit organization, to explore how high school teachers' tolerance for ambiguity affects science teaching and learning. The research project aims to: 1) examine how classroom activities unfold differently across teachers with varying tolerance for ambiguity, 2) co-develop a professional learning program to help teachers become...
This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will support a convergent research effort to study the dynamics of ambiguity, uncertainty, and confusion (AU&C) in STEM education. The project will develop methods for collecting and analyzing longitudinal, multimodal data from students to understand how individuals and groups productively engage with AU&C during STEM problem-solving and learning....
This $634,504 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a four-year initiative focused on developing middle and high school science teachers' ability to integrate critical systems thinking into their curriculum and teaching practices regarding socio-environmental issues. The key products and services of this multi-site professional development program are to: 1) Examine how three cohorts of science teachers across the San...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $990,856 provides funding from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2028 to explore the impact of classroom observation protocols on instructor motivation and teaching practices under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the University of California Riverside, will deliver professional development and research on instructional improvement to 60 science and math faculty across the...
This $294,903 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a 3-year project titled "Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using Smart Greenhouses - Transdisciplinary Science". The project will engage 60 teachers and 580 students across rural and urban districts in 3 states to develop and pilot transdisciplinary STEM curriculum centered on the design and use of smart greenhouses....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $653,723 project grant under its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program to the University of Illinois. The 4-year project will develop and test a professional development model that empowers high school science teachers to adapt curriculum materials to integrate students' knowledge and community resources. Working with education researchers, teachers, scientists, and community organizations, the project teams will go through cycles of...
This Project Grant award for $499,998.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education). The award will fund the incubation and piloting of a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student and teacher behavior, neurology, physiology, cognition, and physical interactions within classroom settings. This research aims to advance understanding of how individual student...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $396,001 Project Grant to Morningside University under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to enhance undergraduate students' scientific literacy by helping them develop a more complex understanding of scientific uncertainty. The project aims to explore how integrating concepts of scientific uncertainty into existing STEM courses impacts student understanding and ability to communicate about...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $194,578 is intended to provide a research base for understanding how instruction affects students' comprehension of measurement concepts across classical and quantum mechanics. Awarded to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation on May 1, 2024, the 3-year project aims to: (A) characterize instruction on uncertainty and measurement in introductory and advanced physics courses, (B) develop student...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) award of $804,337 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth supports a four-year project titled "Collaborative Research: Teaching for the Anthropocene: Teacher Learning and Practice for Critical Systems Thinking." The project aims to develop and research a teacher professional development program that helps middle and high school science teachers across three geographic settings (San Francisco Bay Area,...