A Social Network Analysis of the National Science Foundation's Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) and Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) Programs
A Social Network Analysis of the National Science Foundation's Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) and Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) Programs
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This request seeks approval for OMB clearance to conduct a survey for a Social Network Analysis of the NSFÂs Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) and Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) programs. The data collection consists of surveying NSF grantees. The information gathered from these surveys will document the REESE and DRK-12 social networks and will be used as a guide to the program officers in their future strategic and management decisions.
NSF wishes to receive OMB clearance to perform conduct a survey to provide data for a social network analysis for the last four years of the DRK-12 program (FY2007 - FY2010) and the last five years of the REESE program (FY2006 - FY2010). The primary objectives of the social network analysis are to determine whether the Discovery Research K-12 (DR-K12) and Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) grantees affect the creation, diffusion, and uptake of intellectual products or property produced with funding from either grant program.
STPI was asked to map, measure, and analyze PI and co-PI networks for each program, between the two programs, and between the two programs and other select NSF programs.
The Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program seeks to advance research at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, and to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to improve STEM teaching and learning at all educational levels and in all settings. There are four types of grantsÂPathways, Knowledge Diffusion, Empirical Research, and Large Empirical Research.
The goal of the DR K-12 program is to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, implementation, and study of resources, models, and technologies that eventually can and will be used effectively in many sites and circumstances across the nation.
 Resources include instructional and assessment materials for students and teachers, and they may come in print, multi-media, networked, or virtual forms.
 Models include curricular frameworks and learning progressions, teacher education and professional development program designs, academic standards, and other guides for learning and teaching.
 Technologies include tools for cyberlearning such as computer software, labware, networking and collaboration utilities, web-based resources, on-¬line gaming, virtual learning environments, and portable digital media as well as scientific tools like sensors for data capture or laboratory studies.
DR K-12 accepts proposals for exploratory projects, full research and development projects, synthesis projects, and conferences/workshops.
Once information from the surveys is gathered and analyzed, a report will be prepared that presents whether REESE)and DR-K12 grants lead to influence and impact among Principal Investigators (PIs) within each program, across DRL programs, and across other NSF programs. The findings of the analysis will be presented to the NSF management and will be used by them to determine how the program and its administration may be altered and improved in future years.
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Online Survey for REESE and DR K-12 Grantees