(FOA)-Discovery
Research PreK-12 (DRK-12); October 7, 2020
Agency
National
Science Foundation
Description
The
Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the
learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and
computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and
development of STEM education innovations and approaches. Projects in the
DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior
research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical
justification for proposed projects. Projects should result in
research-informed and field-tested outcomes and products that inform teaching
and learning. Teachers and students who participate in DRK-12 studies are
expected to enhance their understanding and use of STEM content, practices and
skills.
The
DRK-12 program invites proposals that address immediate challenges that are
facing preK-12 STEM education as well as those that anticipate radically
different structures and functions of preK-12 teaching and learning. The DRK-12
program has three major research and development strands: (1) Assessment; (2)
Learning; and (3) Teaching. The program recognizes the synergy among the three
strands and that there is some overlap and interdependence among them. However,
proposals should identify a clear focus of the proposed research efforts (i.e.,
assessment, learning, or teaching) consistent with the proposal’s main
objectives and research questions. The program supports six types of projects:
(1) Exploratory, (2) Design and Development, (3) Impact, (4) Implementation and
Improvement, (5) Syntheses, and (6) Conferences. All six types of projects
apply to each of the three DRK-12 program strands.
Announcement
Number:
NSF
20-572
Closing
Date:
October
07, 2020
October
06, 2021 - First Wednesday in October, Annually
Thereafter
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20572/nsf20572.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
Contact
Information
(703)
292-8620