Transcript NSF Funding Opportunities for Learning and

National Science Foundation
NSF Funding Opportunities for
Learning and Teaching
Elizabeth VanderPutten and Lee Zia
National Science Foundation
www.nsf.gov
June 9, 2010
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Overview
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NSF Context: VanderPutten
RUI/REU, STEP, TUES: Zia
MSP, CAREER: VanderPutten
Helpful Hints: Zia
• Q&A
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NSF Funding Sources
• Cross-Directorate Programs
– Research in Undergraduate Institutions
– Research Opportunity Awards
• Directorate for Education and
Human Resources
• Discipline Research Directorates
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NSF Directorate for Education and
Human Resources (EHR): Themes
• Broadening Participation to Improve
Workforce Development
• Enriching the Education of STEM Teachers
• Promoting Learning Through Research
and Evaluation
• Furthering Public Understanding of
Science and Advancing STEM Literacy
• Transforming STEM Education through
Cyber-enabled Learning Strategies
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NSF Directorate for Education and
Human Resources (EHR): Divisions
• Division of Research on Learning (DRL)
- merger of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education
(ESIE) and Research, Evaluation, and Communication (REC)
• Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
• Division of Human Resource Development (HRD)
• Division Graduate Education (DGE)
National Science Foundation
Research in Undergraduate Institutions
(RUI), NSF 00-144
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518
Goals:
• Support high quality research involving UGs
• Strengthen the research environment in UG institutions
• Promote the integration of research and education
Eligibility:
• 10 or fewer Science and Engineering PhDs/year
• UG enrollment exceeds graduate enrollment
• Research in NSF-supported fields
• Multi-user instrumentation
No deadline: contact NSF (see names in announcement)
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Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU), NSF 09-598
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09598/nsf09598.htm
REU Sites
• Group of ~10 students
with group activities
• Variety of research
projects, maybe NSFfunded or maybe not
• Choice of mentor or
project
• Most students not
from host institution
REU Supplements
• 1-2 students
• Research problems
within an NSF-funded
project
• Students usually from
host institution
• Contact NSF program
officer first
• No formal deadline
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REU continued
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Citizens or permanent U.S. residents
Stipends and possible assistance with
housing and travel
Deadlines (sites):
 First Friday in June (Antarctica)
 August 25, 2010 and 4th Friday in
August thereafter (non-Antarctica)
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STEP (STEM Talent
Expansion Program)
Goal: to increase the number of students (U.S.
citizens or permanent residents) RECEIVING
associate or baccalaureate degrees in established
or emerging fields within science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08569/nsf08569.htm
Deadline for letters of intent (opt.): August 17, 2010
Deadline for full proposals: September 28, 2010
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STEP: Budget info
• One proposal per “unit” at an institution
• About $30 million available in FY2010
• Budgetary Limitations
– $.5 M for up to 5,000 undergrad students
– $ 1 M for 5,000-15,000 undergrad
students
– $2 M for >15,000 undergrad students
– 20-25% addition if significant partnership
with an associate degree granting inst.
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STEP: Types of efforts
• Bridge programs that enable additional
preparation for students
• Programs that focus on improving the quality of
student learning
 high-caliber teaching in smaller classes
 new pedagogical approaches
 training of teaching assistants (grads & UGs)
• Programs to encourage undergraduate research
• Programs that provide financial incentives to
students
• Many others
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TUES: Transforming Undergraduate
Education in STEM
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10544/nsf10544.htm
• Provide a framework for projects to maximize their
effectiveness in improving and transforming
undergraduate STEM education
• Increase the emphasis on projects that build on
prior work and contribute to the knowledge base of
STEM education research and practice
• Contribute to building a community of scholars who
work in related areas of education
• Explicitly identify a set of measurable outcomes
that will be used in the project management and
evaluation
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TUES Framework
New
Learning
Materials
Research on
Teaching and
Learning
Assessing
Learning
Faculty
Expertise
Implementing
Innovations
Projects should address a recognized need and
undertake exemplary work in at least of the
above elements. Projects may take advantage of
natural synergies among these elements.
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TUES: 3 Types of Projects
• Type 1 – (05/26-27/2011 and 05/27-28/2012)
Exploratory, initial investigation, or adaptation in
one of the five elements of the TUES Framework
• Type 2 – (01/14/2011, 01/13/2012, 01/14/2012)
Expansion of smaller scale but proven innovations,
refinement and testing on/in diverse users/settings
• Type 3 – (01/14/2011, 01/13/2012, 01/14/2012)
Comprehensive, large-scale efforts to combine
proven results and mature innovations from several
component areas; emphasis on sustainability,
national dissemination, etc.
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TUES: Additional Emphases
• Propose materials, processes, or
models that have the potential to
enhance student learning and to be
adapted easily by other sites and
• Involve a significant effort to
facilitate adaptation at other sites.
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Math and
Science
Partnership
(MSP) Program
A Research and Development Effort
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MSP: Types of Awards
 Institute Partnerships: Focus on
developing teacher leaders.
 Targeted Partnerships: Focus on a
grade band or content area with broad
involvement of teachers, administrators
and others in curricula change,
professional development and
assessment.
 Start Partnerships: Focus on the data
analysis and team building needed to
develop a full Partnerships
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Partnerships:
Universities/colleges and K-12 schools
must be included as core partners
University must be lead partner
Principal Investigators must include
 STEM faculty
 K-12 Representatives
 Education Faculty should be included
 Can include other organizations
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RFP: NSF 10-556
• Institute, Start, RETA: July 8, 2010
• Targeted Partnerships: October 14
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CAREER
• For Assistant Professors in tenure track
positions
• Five Year grant with minimum award
size of $400,000
• Proposals include
– Research
– Education
– Integration of Research and Education
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CAREER
• NSF-wide
– 3000 plus proposals
– 500 plus awards
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reviewed by disciplinary programs
• Deadlines: NSF 08-557
– July 20, 2010 BIO, CISE, EHR,OCI
– July 21, 2010 ENG
– July 22, 2010 GEO, MPS, SBE, OPP
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Other Programs of Interest
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NSF Scholarships in STEM
Noyce Teacher Scholars
Advanced Technological Education
NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12
REESE, DRK-12, ISE
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WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
• Grant Holder
– Principal Investigator
– Member of Project Team, or
Coalition, or Advisory Board
– Test Site
• User of Products
• Participant in Workshops and
Symposium
• Reviewer of Proposals
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