Project Grant U411C180052

The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) a $4,331,183 Project Grant under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program (CFDA 84.411) to support the "THINKING PRO: ACCELERATING SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA) CLASSES" project. The grant will fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of an innovative...

The Think Together organization will provide education innovation and research services over a five-year period through December 2026 under a $4.425 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Funded through the Education Innovation and Research program (formerly known as the Investing in Innovation or i3 Fund), this award will support Think Together's work to create, develop, implement, replicate and scale evidence-based programs...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $999,942 in funding to Learn Collaborate Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an AI-powered collaborative project-based learning (CPBL) software platform. The platform is designed to address the workforce skills gap by enabling project-based learning activities that seamlessly integrate real-world projects with academic...

This Project Grant award, totaling $413,700, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The overarching goal is to develop scalable, example-based intelligent tutoring systems to enhance workforce upskilling and reskilling programs. The key products and services to be delivered include: Creating an "Exemplify" platform to help instructors develop example-based intelligent tutors for complex...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) award of $804,337 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth supports a four-year project titled "Collaborative Research: Teaching for the Anthropocene: Teacher Learning and Practice for Critical Systems Thinking." The project aims to develop and research a teacher professional development program that helps middle and high school science teachers across three geographic settings (San Francisco Bay Area,...

This $667,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of a Data Sensing Learning Environment (DASLET) to advance middle school students' computational thinking skills and engagement with STEM careers in the construction industry. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports the development of the Nation's STEM education enterprise, Texas A&M University will...

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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant totaling $349,410 to Harvey Mudd College under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for the project "Prototyping a Systems Thinking Framework to Foster Environmental and Sociotechnical Thinking Across an Interdisciplinary Engineering Curriculum". The goal of this 3-year project is to design, develop, implement, and assess a systems thinking framework that undergraduate engineering students can apply to coursework,...

This $644,957 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) supports the design, implementation, and study of a novel STEM education curriculum focused on developing secondary students' abilities to reason through ambiguous and ethical challenges through design projects. The project, titled "Socially Transformative Engineering Pedagogy (STEP) for a Sustainable Future," aims to empower youth as transformative agents with the skills to negotiate...

This $246,900 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of reflection exercises and vignettes to promote professional dispositions among undergraduate computing students. Awarded under the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grant involves faculty from four institutions collaborating over two years to design and study exercises asking students to explain how they have demonstrated behaviors like persistence and...