Project Grant 2509226
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $142,000.00 and awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will fund the development of a simulated classroom environment that allows elementary school teachers to practice facilitation skills using AI-driven student avatars. The goal is to create an automated professional development system that provides teachers with low-cost, low-stakes opportunities to improve their ability to facilitate classroom...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,349,744 Project Grant to Illinois State University under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support a project to advance STEM education and career pathways for 320 high school students from four Chicago-area schools and community organizations serving underrepresented populations. The project aims to increase student knowledge and interest in STEM and ICT careers...
- This $241,414 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop an augmented reality (AR) learning environment integrated with a large language model (LLM)-powered pedagogical agent to guide middle school students' modeling practice in science. The key objectives are to: 1) build AR simulations for modeling tasks, 2) develop an on-device LLM to assess diagrammatic models, and 3) investigate student modeling practice within the...
- This $293,356 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project aims to understand the supports teachers need to adapt computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curricular materials for their specific classroom and community contexts. Through this...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $100,000 to the University of Illinois to develop AI literacy resources and curriculum for K-8 students and teachers. The goal is to help schools, especially smaller districts, effectively integrate AI concepts, practices, and ethics into their instruction as AI technologies advance rapidly. The project partners the university's AI education experts with a small suburban school...
- This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...
- This $1,999,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Northern Illinois University's (NIU) efforts to increase the retention and graduation of low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees. Over the 5-year award period from January 2025 to December 2029, the project will provide scholarships to at least 68 full-time students in biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering,...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a research-practice partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder and the Weld RE-4 School District in Colorado. The $934,240 grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, aims to develop and investigate a novel methodological approach called "improvement-oriented curriculum adoption" to help school districts select, adopt, and implement high-quality instructional...
- This $564,686 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Loyola University of Chicago in providing pre-service secondary science and mathematics teachers authentic STEM research experiences in biodiversity studies through a summer program. Over five years, the university aims to mentor 40 prospective teachers pursuing biology, ecology, or environmental science degrees through hands-on research and professional development opportunities...
- This $349,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a research project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate how to design and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to support equitable K-12 science education. The project plans to explore the use of multimodal AI to provide automated feedback for formative science assessments, with the goal of generating design principles to develop...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is supporting a partnership between the West Aurora School District in Illinois and Northern Illinois University. The primary goals are to: (1) co-construct a research and development plan to enhance support and effectiveness in teaching scientific argumentation through technology, and (2) develop a model for building a design research partnership between a school district and a mid-size public university. The project involves a research-practice partnership leadership team that includes middle school science teachers, students, parents, school administrators, and university researchers. This initiative aims to catalyze research that enhances preK-12 teachers' and students' opportunities for high-quality science learning experiences while promoting collaborative STEM education partnerships.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $100.0k | 7/23/25 |