This $800,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) is aimed at expanding and assessing the art and practice of statistical thinking in post-secondary statistics instruction. The grantee, Superior Statistical Research LLC, will provide faculty professional development through intensive workshops, sustained interactions, formative assessment, and support materials to help statistics instructors at over 600 institutions better align their...
This $548,223 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, supports the development of statistical literacy for secondary mathematics teachers and students. The award aims to help teachers design meaningful learning experiences that enable students to use statistical reasoning and data analysis to interpret and explain real-world phenomena. The project will engage teachers in professional learning communities to enhance...
This Project Grant award for $243,184 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (CFDA 84.305 - Education Research, Development and Dissemination) will fund a training program on Bayesian data science methods for education researchers and graduate students. The program, led by the University of Virginia with sub-awards to the University of Notre Dame, Florida State University, UCLA, and the University of Georgia, will provide a five-day in-person intensive training...
This $515,428 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development of new statistical methods and research tools for conducting small-sample studies of teaching and learning in STEM fields. The research project, led by the University of Cincinnati, aims to derive new estimation procedures for cross-classified structural equation models that can generate robust findings from studies with smaller sample sizes, which is a...
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences awarded a $310,958 Project Grant under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on August 1, 2024. This grant supports statistical innovations for balancing weight methods in education research, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2025. The grant involves sub-awards to two prestigious research universities, The Regents of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $124,354 to Michigan State University from July 2023 to June 2026. The project aims to design and implement a set of four research-informed professional development modules for statistics graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to learn how to teach introductory statistics courses equitably using authentic data. Key modules focus on areas like teaching statistical thinking, facilitating...
The Florida State University was awarded a $447,431 project grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination federal grant program (CFDA 84.305). The grant-funded project, titled "MORE THAN JUST SAFETY: SCHOOL SECURITY MEASURES AND ACADEMIC, BEHAVIORAL, AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES," will examine the impact of school security measures on student outcomes between July 1, 2022 and September 20, 2022. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve fundamental data analytical skills for STEM students, with a focus on enhancing learning for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. The $346,385 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, will utilize a theme-based approach to deliver personalized learning experiences in introductory statistics courses at...
The University of Southern California received a $364,885 Project Grant award on August 1, 2024 from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305). The grant will fund the development of a "Diagnostic Instrument for Teachers' Content and Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Numbers and Operations". The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $XXX sub-grant on...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the CFDA program 84.305 Education Research, Development and Dissemination provides $361,336.00 to the University of Connecticut (UConn) to support a research project focused on expanding dual-credit enrollments among high school students. The project is scheduled to run from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. As part of this initiative, UConn will partner with Southern Connecticut...