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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a Dear Colleague letter to encourage proposals that integrate the use of data from polar regions into undergraduate education and informal STEM education. From NSF: The Geosciences and Education and Human Resources Directorates are partnering to advance and develop understanding of learning environments that build upon the rich ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter announcing opportunities for funding through the INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science) initiative. Proposals will be due on November 13, 2017 and April 16, 2018. For more information, visit the NSF website.

The Directorate for Education and Human Resources announces a nationwide search to fill the position of Division Director, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The mission of EHR is to provide the research foundation to develop a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-literate public and a ... Read more

NSF has identified improvement of graduate student preparedness for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce as one of its priorities. As part of this effort, a supplemental funding opportunity is available in fiscal year (FY) 2018 and FY 2019 to provide support for non-academic research internships for graduate students to support career opportunities ... Read more

On October 18, 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF), along with the Department of Education (ED), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) jointly established the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Panel. This panel was formed in response to the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act ... Read more

The Dear Colleague Letter: NSF and William T. Grant Foundation Partnership to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research about Youth upcoming deadlines for grant proposals are May 4 and August 3, 2022. Dear Colleague: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National Science ... Read more

The Dear Colleague Letter: NSF and William T. Grant Foundation Partnership to Increase the Use, Usefulness, and Impact of Research about Youth upcoming deadlines for grant proposals are May 4 and August 3, 2022. Dear Colleague: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National Science ... Read more

The NSF Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) announces a nationwide search for temporary Program Directors in Mathematics Education Research at the National Science Foundation. Formal consideration of applications will begin March 19, 2018 and will continue until selections are made. DRL is interested in candidates with research expertise in ... Read more

With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) wish to notify the community of their intention to fund research to support the design of the next generation of digital learning environments for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ... Read more

Building on previous investments, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR) announce their interest in continuing support of research related to the Science of Broadening Participation (SBP). The Science of Broadening Participation will employ the theories, methods, and analytic techniques of the social, behavioral, ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has released a Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding Requests for Grade 6-12 Data Science Education. The submission deadline is June 7, 2022.   Read the letter here or below: Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation notifies the community of a collaboration with Schmidt Futures to ... Read more

The Geosciences and Education and Human Resources Directorates at the National Science Foundation are partnering to advance and develop understanding of learning environments that build upon the rich interdisciplinary resources emerging from polar investments. To that end, the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) and the Division of Research on ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports collaborations and partnerships among education researchers and practitioners to advance science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all Americans. Such collaborations address pressing needs in the Nation’s diverse preK-12 schools, including students, teachers, and families, as well as informal learning institutions where professional educators, youth, and their families ... Read more

This NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)-funded Science and Ethics in Informal STEM Contexts (DRL- 2040350) project was designed to explore research ethics in science and the history of science, particularly within informal STEM institutions, through the lenses of multiple cultural traditions, and to produce a documentary, tentatively titled Decolonizing Science? to engage both scientists and informal ... Read more

As with many historical collections of artworks, there are certain works in the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s collection that are culturally inappropriate in today’s context. This could include their subject matter, their mediums, or their institutional cataloguing and titles. The Artworks Renaming Initiative addresses these problematic pieces by giving new names to identified artworks with the ... Read more

An end-of-the-year CAISE blog post named the White House Maker Faire as one the defining informal Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education stories of the 2014. That event symbolically reflected the recent exponential growth of the “Maker movement” i.e.. the plethora of “Makerspaces” now in science centers, museums, libraries and other informal learning settings, ... Read more

The Math and Science Partnership Network (MSPnet) Academy hosted a webinar on November 20th on Design Based Implementation Research (DBIR). The webinar, presented by William Penuel from the University of Colorado Boulder and Barry Fishman from the University of Michigan, has now been archived. In the webinar, Penuel and Fishman define DBIR, describe its main ... Read more

This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview  According to the 2014 U.S. Mobile App Report, 60% of digital media time in the U.S. takes place on mobile devices.  This represents an opportunity for the field of informal STEM education to ... Read more

Are you a workshop facilitator or trainer? Would you like a new resource to help you engage adult learners? Let’s face it—adults learn differently, and if you’re a workshop facilitator, this can present a creative challenge. You know your content, but how do you combine your expertise with instructional strategies that are proven to engage ... Read more

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This article was migrated from a previous version of the Knowledge Base. The date stamp does not reflect the original publication date. Overview  The original entry was based on an informalscience.org forum discussion on the topic and draws from the contributions of multiple people who participated in the forum. Design-based research (DBR) and Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) ... Read more

Conclusions Design Decisions Models Intended to Engage Populations Further Reading Blog Post Evaluators have shown the strength of summer camp as an intervention. With such rich possibilities, more studies and evaluations could assess and reveal the impact of facilitators and presenters. They can show how different the outcomes are when scientists practicing scientists present and ... Read more

Conclusions Design Decisions Models Intended to Engage Populations Further Reading Blog Post Camp experiences are time-limited, some as short as a partial week. Nevertheless, they promise transformative experiences. Below we discuss several projects with different audiences and priorities. By design, they seek to increase knowledge and facilitate career exploration among other goals like developing participants’ ... Read more

Conclusions Design Decisions Models Intended to Engage Populations Further Reading Blog Post There are several articles on the subject of summer camps in a variety of journals. For example, Kong, Dabney, and Tai examine the relationship between students’ participation in science summer camps and their career interest in science and engineering across 5 states and ... Read more

Conclusions Design Decisions Models Intended to Engage Populations Further Reading Blog Post Girlstart Insights See project page Girlstart offers engaging, impactful STEM-focused week-long summer day camps for girls entering 4th-8th grade in Austin and several cities around the country. In an effort to interest girls who haven’t already decided they want to be in STEM, ... Read more