Announcement from National Science Foundation’s New Assistant Director

James L. Moore III was selected to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), which funds research enhancing learning and teaching, including broad efforts to achieve excellence in STEM education. Internationally recognized for his work on African American males, Moore pursues research focusing on topics such as STEM education, gifted education, multicultural and urban education, and higher education. Moore is interested in investing in improving STEM preparation and pathways in urban and rural, underserved, and under-resourced communities across the U.S. and advancing knowledge of enhancing STEM educational and workforce outcomes in his new role as Assistant Directorate. Read more about Moore’s vision here.

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New NSF Proposal Award Policies, and Procedures Guide 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently revised the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 23-1), which will be effective for all proposals submitted or due on or after Monday, January 30, 2023. A complete summary of the overall and by-chapter revisions can be reviewed here.

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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of IES

November marked the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) 20th Anniversary, with IES sharing stories of past work and impacts from the past two decades in honor of the celebration. If you are interested in sharing your own story or vision for the future, please visit IES’ anniversary page to learn more.

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Funding Mechanisms and Support from Cyber Florida

The Florida Center for Cybersecurity is looking to support impactful cybersecurity research at state universities with the launching of their new program for academic research support. Services are available to faculty members submitting large-scale research projects (typically over $2 million) and junior faculty submitting NSF CAREER and YIP proposals. Support is available in the form of funding opportunities, travel support, and mentorship. If interested, please contact Dr. Sriram Chellappan, the Academic Director of Cybersecurity Research at Cyber Florida, at sriramc@cyberflorida.org. More information on Cyber Florida can be found here.

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Research Spotlight: Taryrn T.C. Brown

Q & A with Taryrn T.C. Brown, Ph. D., Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning

What research are you currently working on?

My research interests sit at the nexus of Black feminist thought and Black girlhood studies in education. My research agenda thus contributes to the growing scholarship in experiences of Black women and girls through an overarching attention to mapping spatial geographies across time and space, centering relationships in knowledge production and epistemology, and acknowledging the ways Black women and girls document themselves against the archival grain. This collective interdisciplinary work embodies a theoretical extension of intersectionality as a tangible way to support research projects that center equity, advocacy, and culturally sustaining pedagogies both inside and outside of various educational contexts.

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Research Spotlight: Ana Puig

Q & A with Ana Puig, Ph. D., Research Director in the Office of Educational Research and Clinical Professor in the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education

What research are you currently working on?

I am actively involved in a national study with three institutions of higher education in the southeastern United States (led by Oklahoma State University) that explores adverse childhood experiences and academic performance of undergraduate college students. Our aim is to determine factors that hinder or support ACE survivors in their educational journeys.

Additionally, I am engaged in a study that builds on research I have conducted with the Streetlight palliative care program (https://streetlight.ufhealth.org/) that provides psychosocial support to chronically or terminally ill adolescents and young adults. Our research team has explored the experiences of Streetlight volunteer members, treatment providers, and, more recently, its patients. We are in the process of completing a research proposal for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support conducting a feasibility study of the program with the goal of manualizing its services and comparing outcomes with other palliative care programs across the United States.

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Research Spotlight: Hakeem Hasan

Q & A with Hakeem Hasan, J. D., Senior Researcher at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School

What research are you currently working on?

I am currently looking into COVID-19’s impact on public education grades 9-12. Many have hypothesized that the three-year pandemic is going to have long-term effects on student learning. I am attempting to unpack the extent of this so that educators nationwide can have more to think through when delivering instruction at the high school grade levels.

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Research Spotlight: Yiqin Pan

Q & A with Yiqin Pan, Ph. D., Assistant Professor in the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education

What research are you currently working on?

I leverage quantitative methodologies, including artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, and psychometrics, to address applied issues in educational measurement and to optimize the learning process. Most of my recent research has centered on aspects of test security and personalized learning. My current projects include (i) developing anomaly detection algorithms for identifying potential fraud in tests, (ii) implementing item selection designs by recommendation systems for preventing potential fraud in adaptive testing, (iii) using anomaly detection methods to identify disengagement in learning, and (iv) building recommendation systems to select appropriate learning materials for students. My research has been supported by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

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Research Spotlight: David Miller

Q & A with David Miller, Ph. D., Director of and Professor in the School of Human Development and Organizational Studies in Education

What research are you currently working on?

I am currently developing assessments of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education, including assessment standards for fair and equitable evaluation.

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Research Spotlight: Larisa Olesova

Q & A with Larisa Olesova, Ph. D., Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning

What research are you currently working on?

I am working on the effectiveness of a case-based discussions strategy to increase interaction among students. I am also collecting data from various online discussions where different general, role-based, inquiry-based, and debate instructional strategies are used to examine their effectiveness to increase interaction among students. I am studying the levels of students’ interactions by applying social network analysis to understand how to better design online students’ cognitive engagement. In addition, I am currently conducting research on examining engineering students’ cognitive skills in active learning courses using the Community of Inquiry (COI) theoretical framework.

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Research Spotlight: Kathrin Maki

Q & A with Kathrin Maki, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Special Education, School Psychology, and Early Childhood Studies

What basic questions does your research seek to answer?

My work focuses on the identification of learning needs and development of academic skills for children with learning difficulties and disabilities. Specifically, my work centers on two interconnected lines of research through examination of: (a) methodologies used to identify children with learning difficulties and disabilities, and (b) academic interventions and data-driven decision making to ensure all children receive appropriate academic support in schools.

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Research Spotlight: Mary Bratsch-Hines

Q & A with Mary Bratsch-Hines, Ph.D., Senior Manager for Research and Evaluation in the Lastinger Center for Learning

What research are you currently working on?

I am currently working on several research projects, which generally fall in three overarching buckets. These projects include numerous colleagues with whom I collaborate at UF and at other institutions across the US.

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Research Spotlight: Blake Beckett

Q & A with Blake Beckett, Ed. D., Assistant Professor at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School

What research are you currently working on?

I recently completed my dissertation research focused on how teachers and students experience the intersection of Universal Design for Learning and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in my own sixth-grade classroom at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School here at the University of Florida. I am interested in empowering students and teachers to understand their own assets and variabilities, as well as those of others. This year I am extending this research with a focus on how students understand and engage in critical thinking in different contexts.

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Awarded Projects for October 2022

Congratulations to Mary Bratsch-Hines for her award from Take Stock in Children; Ashley Pennypacker-Hill for her award from the Florida Department of Education ; Paige Pullen and Philip Poekert for their subcontract U.S. Department of Education flow through award from Pinellas County Schools; and Paige Pullen for her awards from the School Board of Sarasota County and Early Learning Coalition of Broward County.

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Submitted Projects for October 2022

Best wishes to Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko for his subcontract NSF flow through proposal to the University of Kansas; Anthony Botelho, Nigel Newbutt, and Catherine Cavanaugh for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Anthony Botelho and Catherine Paolucci for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Mary Bratsch-Hines for her proposal to Childcare Resources of Indian River; Kent Crippen and Julie Brown for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Maya Israel, Catherine Paolucci, and Anne Corinne Manley for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Maya Israel and Joanne Barrett for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Kristy Boyer and Maya Israel for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Maya Israel and her proposal to the National Science Foundation; Megan Ennes, Maya Israel, Bruce MacFadden, and Mariela Pajuelo Rubina for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Kathrin Maki, Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, and Do Koh for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Philip Poekert and Zandra de Araujo for their proposal to the Kansas Department of Administration; Philip Poekert, Taryrn Brown, Chonika Coleman King, and Hyunyi Jung for their proposal to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Paige Pullen for her proposals to the Early Learning Coalitions of Palm Beach County and Hillsborough County; Seyedahmad Rahimi, Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, Anthony Botelho, and Kristy Boyer for their three proposals to the National Science Foundation; Kristy Boyer and Seyedahmad Rahimi for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; Eunjin “Jinnie” Shin, Wei Li, Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko, Zandra de Araujo, and Paige Pullen for their proposal to the National Science Foundation; and Wanli Xing, Anthony Botelho, and Eunjin “Jinnie” Shin for their proposal to the ASSISTments Foundation.
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