ECR Projects

Explore past and current fundamental STEM education research projects across the three research areas that NSF's EDU Core Research (ECR) program funds, as well as across ECR funding types. Other search filters draw from both NSF's data and the ECR Hub's hand coding of award abstracts.

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Advancing Student Success and Career Horizon through Learning Analytics Research (Advancing SCHOLAR)

Effective: 2023-2026

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Kingsley A Reeves Jr

Institution: University of South Florida

The goal of the Mid-Career Advancement program is to substantively enhance and advance the research program of mid-career scientists and engineers through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships, typically at an institution other than their home institution. The resources provided by the collaborator of this project will provide the principal investigator (PI) with both the opportunity to work with a team of individuals actively engaged in learning analytics research as well as access...

STEM Learning and Learning Environments STEM Learning and Learning Environments  

Toward Analyses of Mathematics Classroom Discourse at Scale Using Tools from Applied Mathematics

Effective: 2023-2025

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Jessica P Bishop

Institution: Texas State University - San Marcos

This project aims to serve the national interest by using analytic tools to better understand how classroom discourse affects the teaching and learning of mathematics. The project will focus on two aspects of classroom discourse: how teachers respond to student thinking, and how teachers and students talk about mathematical authority. The project will use quantitative methods to analyze video data from middle-grades mathematics classrooms. Results will advance knowledge and understanding how...

STEM Learning and Learning Environments STEM Learning and Learning Environments  Broadening Participation in STEM Broadening Participation in STEM

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance the Creativity of the STEM Professional Workforce by Transforming Education for Neurodiverse Learners

Effective: 2021-2024

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Arash Esmaili Zaghi

Institution: University of Connecticut

This project is funded by the Mid-Career Advancement program that supports opportunities for scientists and engineers to substantively enhance their research program through synergistic and mutually beneficial partnerships. This MCA project embraces a transformative approach to address the critical national need for a creative professional workforce by increasing the participation of neurodiverse students in STEM disciplines. Scientific and technological breakthroughs are crucial to address the...

STEM Workforce Development STEM Workforce Development  STEM Learning and Learning Environments STEM Learning and Learning Environments  
Broadening Participation in STEM Broadening Participation in STEM

Partnering Land and communities for equitable and inclusive STEM learning

Effective: 2021-2024

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Karla Eitel

Institution: Regents of the University of Idaho

The goal of the project is to explore Land education pedagogy and its curriculum and pedagogical innovations in the preparation of Native and non-Native educators to engage Native and non-Native students in environmental STEM education on Indigenous lands. The investigator will implement a professional development plan focused on pedagogical innovations within various teacher education and environmental STEM learning programs to (a) understand the tools and technologies that can support these...

STEM Learning and Learning Environments STEM Learning and Learning Environments  Broadening Participation in STEM Broadening Participation in STEM

The Neurophysiology of Teaching Secondary Mathematics for Transcendent Purpose and Cultural Relevance

Effective: 2021-2024

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Jamaal S Matthews

Institution: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The project examines how teachers’ culturally supportive mathematics instructional practices engage and shape adolescents’ brain networks in ways that predict their math identity, achievement, and sense of purpose over time. The investigator also will assess the neurophysiology of how critical consciousness develops in mathematics teachers. The project synthesizes neurobiological, developmental, and culturally situated perspectives to explore adolescents’ and teachers’ socio-emotional...

STEM Learning and Learning Environments STEM Learning and Learning Environments  Broadening Participation in STEM Broadening Participation in STEM

Towards a Theory of Engineering Identity Development & Persistence of Minoritized Students with Imposter Feelings: A Longitudinal Mixed-methods Study of Developmental Netw

Effective: 2021-2024

Funding Type: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)

Principal Investigator: Rajashi Ghosh

Institution: Drexel University

The project aims to advance the principal investigator’s research agenda on developmental relationships as mechanisms for career advancement of women and people of color. The investigator will undertake a new area of research by exploring imposter syndrome among women and minoritized students and intersectionality in STEM while also gaining expertise in latent growth curve analysis. The project aims to develop a theory on the relationship between minoritized students’ developmental networks...