Project Grant 2612707
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded $500,000 to the University of Virginia on August 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and deliver instructional materials and assessment methods for adversarial causal reasoning in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The project creates course materials, a hands-on practice system, instructor support resources, and measurement tools to teach cybersecurity professionals how to evaluate...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $299,636 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to The University of Iowa. This grant aims to characterize how undergraduate chemistry students engage in science practices and to develop assessment resources that instructors can use to provide feedback and evaluate student performance on these skills. The project will observe student behaviors and analyze work products in introductory, organic, and advanced chemistry...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded $199,999 to the National Academy of Sciences on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to conduct a public workshop exploring the current and potential future roles of artificial intelligence in undergraduate natural sciences education. The workshop will address how AI is reshaping scientific research and professional practice, the implications for undergraduate education, the knowledge and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings awarded $740,586 to the University of Virginia on September 15, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop AI-GENIE-EDU, an open-source artificial intelligence system for generating and validating K–12 STEM disposition survey items. The project will extend existing AI-GENIE methods to K–12 STEM education contexts, focusing on STEM self-efficacy, STEM self-concept, growth mindset,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) awarded a $299,134 Project Grant to the University of South Florida (USF) to develop assessment tools for evaluating students' understanding of organic chemistry reaction mechanisms. The 3-year project aims to design computer-based scoring models using machine learning text analysis to assess students' written explanations of organic chemistry concepts. The project will also provide professional development...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under CFDA 47.076 (STEM Education) aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of research-based instructional practices in undergraduate chemistry, mathematics, and physics courses across the United States. The $156,614 award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University will re-survey approximately 18,000 instructors from nearly 1,000 post-secondary institutions to characterize any lasting changes in...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education awarded Virginia Commonwealth University $250,000 on September 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop curriculum and instructional materials preparing undergraduate computing students to use artificial intelligence coding tools securely and responsibly. The project will deliver a threat modeling framework for AI-assisted coding workflows and at least eight hands-on laboratory modules built around realistic...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. $400,000 on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to construct a national portrait of organic chemistry instruction and assessment practices across U.S. colleges and universities, including two-year institutions. The project will document the range of instructional and assessment practices currently in use, identify alignment or misalignment...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Old Dominion University Research Foundation $400,000 on October 1, 2026, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and evaluate a metaphor-based Socratic artificial intelligence tutoring system integrated with real-time interactive simulation for undergraduate engineering education. The project will design, implement, and evaluate an AI tutoring framework that guides students through visual simulation...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded the University of Virginia $387,628 on October 1, 2026, to investigate how chemistry instructors design and adapt assessments in response to generative artificial intelligence. The project generates foundational knowledge about instructor decision-making under the constraints of AI tools that can solve traditional chemistry problems with high accuracy, destabilizing established assessment practices. The research characterizes current assessment practices, identifies constraints and motivations shaping instructor decisions, and documents strategies instructors employ to sustain meaningful assessment. The project applies theoretical frameworks of bounded rationality and expectancy-value theory to explain how instructors make assessment decisions under cognitive and environmental constraints. Because assessment directly affects what millions of undergraduate students learn, the work addresses broad implications for STEM education quality and workforce preparation. The award runs through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Charlottesville, Virginia. The grant is issued under CFDA 47.076, STEM Education.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $387.6k | 8/6/26 |