Project Grant H982301210053

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $305,000 to Talk Coaches Inc. to develop an AI-powered feedback system for enhancing literacy and creative thinking skills for students in grades 3-8. The project, titled "AI-Enhanced Feedback to Accelerate Literacy, Creativity, and Student Engagement," aims to transform the English language learning experience by providing immediate AI-driven...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $499,960 will fund the development and research of integrating data literacy and text analytics instruction into middle school English language arts courses from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The goal is to build students' science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills by analyzing textual data using techniques like word frequency visualization that are relevant to fields like data journalism and language...

This three-year, $999,806 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and dissemination of computational thinking (CT) resources and professional learning experiences for K-5 teachers. Awarded to Southern Oregon University on October 1, 2022 and set to be completed by September 30, 2025, the grant enables a research-practitioner partnership involving 20 teachers. The partnership will examine how CT concepts become more...

PATHS TO READING: PROMOTING AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC) BASED TEACHING FOR EARLY READING SKILLS The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services awarded Vanderbilt University a $397,890 Project Grant effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026, under the Special Education Educational Technology Media, and Materials for Individuals with Disabilities program (CFDA 84.327). The project develops and demonstrates evidence-based instructional approaches that...

This $299,963 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of culturally and linguistically sustaining STEM pedagogies using mixed-reality simulations at the University of West Florida from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to improve undergraduate STEM education students' ability to teach in a culturally and linguistically sustaining way through online modules, focused mentor feedback, and practice teaching with virtual avatars in mixed-reality...

The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY), through its Sponsored Projects Services division, was awarded a $260,101 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program. This 2-year grant, commencing on March 1, 2024, will fund a research-practice partnership to explore new computational literacies for emergent bilingual learners. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Developing computer science...

This Project Grant award of $342,906 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's Newark campus. The project aims to explore how children's early media experiences shape their expectations for learning from digital media devices, and how those expectations impact their STEM learning outcomes. Using a combination of behavioral, physiological, and computational approaches, the research will examine...

This $1,783,246 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to create online curricula and conduct research to prepare future middle and high school mathematics teachers to effectively use web-based dynamic geometry technology tools to facilitate productive classroom discussions on geometric concepts. The project has three key goals: 1) develop online modules to train future teachers on using technology to lead productive...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Cast Inc., a nonprofit educational technology research organization, to develop an enterprise-level platform that integrates immersive extended reality (XR) technologies with traditional learning management systems. The 3-year project, titled "IMMERSIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES: EXPANDING ACCESS THROUGH OPEN-SOURCE INNOVATION," aims to enhance technician education by...