Project Grant R305S220005

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $100,039 to the University of Colorado to conduct a longitudinal study on the emotional adjustment and psychological health of diverse emerging adult students before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to use remote-based surveys and experience-sampling methods to examine how social isolation, emotion regulation...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

This five-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, funded in part under the Education and Human Resources and Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers programs, provides $320,006 to Cornell University to improve educators' trust in and effective use of predictive learning analytics. Over the course of the project, the awardee will conduct online randomized controlled trials with 3,600 U.S....

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...

Directed Analytics Inc. received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an automated employability skills framework. The one-year project will create a scalable software platform integrating data from school districts and higher education programs on transition methods and employment outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. Using machine learning, the...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to explore how technological disruption impacts worker skills and income inequality. The project will draw upon labor economics, management, and learning science research to: Analyze the returns to specific skills over time given technological changes, and Develop effective, affordable educational approaches and technologies to...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings provides $200,000 to support continued data collection and analysis through the Understanding America Study (UAS). The funding supports targeted administration of survey questions to parents regarding K-12 students' learning experiences and engagement in STEM subjects during the 2022 spring/summer and the 2022-23 school year. Analysis will track impacts along key demographic...

This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, funded under the Comprehensive Federal Assistance Directory Number 47.084, provides $256,000 to Brio Data Group LLC of Norman, Oklahoma. The award period is from June 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Under this award, Brio Data Group will develop methods for analyzing learner narratives through machine learning and natural language processing techniques. By digitally mining written...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) provides $349,640 to the University of Illinois to conduct innovative research on how a student's location and school resources affect their long-term cognitive, non-cognitive, and life outcomes. The research leverages unique administrative data spanning over 20 years to examine the causal impacts of school quality measures, teacher/principal effectiveness, and...