Research Development

Active College of Education Research Projects

Adult and Higher Education Department
Curriculum & Instruction Department
Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Department
Mathematics, Science & Technology Department
Elementary Education
Friday Institute
Archived Research Projects


Adult and Higher Education:


Principal Investigator:
Audry Jaeger 
Sponsor:                       Association for Institutional Research
Award Period:               06/01/2007-05/31/2008
Title:                             Connecting Faculty Employment Status and Student Outcomes in Community Colleges           
Amount Awarded:         $30,000

Principal Investigator: Duane Akroyd, Carol Kaswork, Aaron Clark, John Penick, Theodore Branoff
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:               09/01/2003-08/31/2008
Title:                             Development of Master's and Online Certificate Programs in STEM Community College Teaching
Amount:                        $919,486

Principal Investigator: Julia Storberg-Walker
Sponsor:                       National Council of Family Court Justices (Prime--US Dept. of Justice)
Award Period:               08/15/2005-12/31/2007
Title:                             National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Proposal
Amount:                        $44,938

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Curriculum & Instruction:


Principal Investigator: Patricia Marshall, Jessica DeCuir
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              07/01/2004-08/31/2008
Title:                             Nuturing Mathematics Dreamkeepers
Amount:                        $4,012,537
Website:                        http://ced.ncsu.edu/nmd/Flash_Index.htm

Principal Investigator: Ellen Vasu, Jason Osborne
Sponsor:                       NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:              03/01/2003-09/30/2007
Title:                             Looking at North Carolina Educational Technology (LANCET)
Amount:                        $493,816

Principal Investigator: Lisa Grable, Carol Pope, Glenda Carter
Sponsor:                       US Dept. of Education
Award Period:              10/01/2003-09/30/2007
Title:                             MiddleData: A North Carolina Consortium to Prepare Future Teachers to Become Middle Grades                                           Technology Teacher Leaders
Amount:                        $524,613
Website:                        http://ced.ncsu.edu/2/mga/middledata/flash_index.htm

Principal Investigator: Ruie Pritchard
Sponsor:                       National Writing Projecct Corp
Award Period:              03/01/1995-06/30/2008
Title:                             National Writing Project at NCSU (Capital Area Writing Project/CAWP)                                         
Amount:                        $399,000

Principal Investigator: Jason Osborne, Ellen Vasu, Jane Steelman, Lisa Grable, John Nietfeld
Sponsor:                       NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:              06/01/2003-08/08/2007
Title:                             Statewide Evaluation of North Carolina's Enhancing Education Through Technology Competitive                                           Grant: IMPACT Model Grant                                        
Amount:                        $1,485,000

Principal Investigator: Jason Osborne, Ellen Vasu, Lisa Grable, Amy Overbay
Sponsor:                       NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:              06/01/2007-09/30/2008
Title:                             Statewide Evaluation of North Carolina's Enhancing Education Through Technology Competitive                                           Grant: IMPACT II                                        
Amount:                        $140,000

Principal Investigator: Ellen Vasu, Jason Osborne, Lisa Grable, Amy Overbay
Sponsor:                       NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:              09/01/2006-09/30/2007
Title:                             IMPACT-Leadership                                      
Amount:                        $126,000

Principal Investigator: Raymond Ting, Yu-Fai Leung
Sponsor:                       Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2010
Title:                             Geosciences in Middle Schools (GIMS)                                      
Amount:                        $171,222

Principal Investigator: Jessica DeCuir, Christine Grant (College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              06/15/2006-05/31/2009
Title:                             ADVANCE LEADERSHIP AWARD: Peer Mentoring Summits for Women Engineering Faculty
                                      of Color                                      
Amount:                        $34,170 (Total Award $299,995)

Principal Investigator: Hiller Spires, John Nietfeld, James Lester (College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              01/01/2007-12/31/2009
Title:                             Bayesian Pedagogical Agents for Dynamic High-Performance Inquiry-Based Science
                                     Learning Environments                                      
Amount:                        $276,002 (Total Award $605,436)

Principal Investigator: Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, Mary Wyer (College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Lead),                                                  Maria Oliver-Hoyo
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              07/01/2005-6/30/2008
Title:                             Measurement Matters: Developing New Scales to Evaluate Undergraduate Students' Images
                                     and Attitudes in STEM Fields                                     
Amount:                        $50,587 (Total Award $499,586)

Principal Investigator: Carl Young, John Lee, Carol Pope, Candy Beal
Sponsor:                       UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Award Period:              03/01/2007-08/31/2008
Title:                             Voices of North Carolina in the Classroom: School/University Professional Development                                              Initiative to Enhance Middle School Teachers' Language and Literacy Instruction                      
Amount:                        $268,837

Principal Investigator: Alan Reiman
Sponsor:                       UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Award Period:              03/30/2007-06/30/2008
Title:                             Facilitating New Teacher Induction Efforts                                      
Amount:                        $45,000

Principal Investigator: Alan Reiman
Sponsor:                       NCSU University Extension Grant Program
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2008
Title:                             SUCCEED at Engaging Partners in Business Plan Creation and Outreach Development                                              Strategies                                    
Amount:                        $10,000

Principal Investigator: Lisa Grable, Margaret Blanchard, Eric Wiebe
Sponsor:                       NCSU University Extension Grant Program
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2008
Title:                             Middle Grades in the 21st Century: Science & Mathematics                                      
Amount:                        $10,000

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Educational Leadership & Policy Studies

Principal Investigator: Thomas Alsbury, La Tefy Schoen
Sponsor:                       NCSU Faculty Research & Professional Development Fund
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2008
Title:                             Friday Institute Innovation Leaders Academy: Sustaining Educational Innovation                    
Amount:                        $8,000

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Mathematics, Science & Technology Department

Principal Investigator: Gail Jones
Sponsor:                       UNC-Chapel Hill (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Award Period:              09/01/2005-08/31/2009
Title:                             NIRT: Bio-Inspired Actuating Structures                                    
Amount:                        $225,494

Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe
Sponsor:                       Duke University (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Award Period:              05/01/2005-04/30/2008
Title:                             An Interactive Approach to Formal Languages and Automata with JFLAP                                   
Amount:                        $69,640

Principal Investigator: Sally Berenson, Mladen Vouk, Joan Michael, Roger Woodard, Susan Bracken
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:               10/01/2006-09/30/2009
Title:                             Markers of STEM Success (MOSS): An Eleven-Year Longitudinal Study of High Achieving                                              Young Women's Interests, Experiences, and Preparation For STEM Careers
Amount:                        $511,512

Principal Investigator: Sally Berenson, Mladen Vouk (College of Engineering-Lead), Laurie Williams
Sponsor:                       UNC-Charlotte (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Award Period:               03/01/2006-02/28/2009
Title:                             BPC-A: The STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Diverse Participation in Computing
Amount:                        $95,000 (Total Award $285,698)

Principal Investigator: Sally Berenson, Jason Osborne, Mladen Vouk (College of Engineering-Lead), Laurie Williams
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:               07/15/2003-06/30/2008
Title:                             ITWF: Collaboration Through Agile Software Development Practices: A Means for Improvement
                                     in Quality & Retention of IT Worker
Amount:                        $203,128 (Total Award $812,587)

Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta
Sponsor:                       Harvard University (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Award Period:              10/15/2006-09/30/2007
Title:                             Exploring Sophisticated Data Mining Analytics as a Strategy for Diagnostic Assessment            Amount:                        $50,305 
     
Principal Investigator: Gail Jones, Jerome Lavelle, Mark Johnson (College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              09/15/2006-08/31/2008
Title:                             NUE: Teaching Nanoscale Engineering Across Undergraduate Disciplines
Amount:                        $118,270 (Total Award $200,000)

Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe, George Rouskas, (College of Engineering-Lead), Lisa Bullard, (Eng.)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation/GE Foundation
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2010
Title:                             CPATH CB: Computing Across Curricula                                  
Amount:                        $12,624 (Total Award $258,750)

Principal Investigator: Meg Blanchard
Sponsor:                       NCSU Faculty Research & Professional Development Fund
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2008
Title:                             Effective Models of Follow-Up to Professional Development                                   
Amount:                        $8,000

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Elementary Education

Principal Investigator: Ellen McIntyre
Sponsor:                       National Council of Teachers of English
Award Period:              07/01/2007-06/30/2009
Title:                             Teaching the "Science of Reading" Through Equity Pedagogy
Amount:                        $14,975

 

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Friday Institute:

Principal Investigator: Phil Emer
Sponsor:                       NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:              02/09/2007-06/30/2007
Title:                             School Connectivity                                  
Amount:                        $430,927

Principal Investigator:
Jere Confrey
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:               09/01/2007-08/31/2012
Title:                             Diagnostic E-Learning Trajectories Approach (DELTA) Applied to Rational Number Reasoning for                                           Grades 3-8
Amount:                        $1,653,385

Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta, William Tucci, Michael Young, Thomas Miller, Deborah Mangum
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              09/01/2005-08/31/2008
Title:                             HI-FIVES: Using Web-Based Gaming to Improve Student Comprehension of Information                                             Technology in Science Grant: IMPACT Model Grant                                        
Amount:                        $1,197,270
Website:                        http://ced.ncsu.edu/hifives/

Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe, James Minogue, Michael Carter, (Graduate School)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:               01/01/2008-12/31/2009
Title:                             Multimodal Science: Supporting Elementary Science Education through Graphic-Enhanced                                              Communication
Amount:                        $367,691

Principal Investigator: Karen Hollebrands, Laura Bottomley (College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation/GE Foundation
Award Period:              02/15/2004-01/31/2008
Title:                             RAMP-UP: Engineers and Teachers Working for Mathematics Success                                   
Amount:                        $704,237 (Total Award $2,221,489)

Principal Investigator: Aaron Clark, Eric Wiebe
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              06/01/2002-11/30/2007
Title:                             Visualization in Technology Education (VisTE)
Amount:                        $1,108,063

Principal Investigator: John Penick
Sponsor:                       Syracuse University (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Award Period:              07/01/2005-06/30/2010
Title:                            Investigating the Meaningfulness of Preservice Programs Across the Continuum of Teaching                                            (IMPPACT) in Science Education
Amount:                        $475,000

Principal Investigator: Gail Jones
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              07/15/2004-06/30/2008
Title:                             Scale and Scaling Across the Science Domains
Amount:                        $703,305

Principal Investigator: Hollylynne Stohl Lee, Karen Hollebrands
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              05/01/2005-11/30/2007
Title:                             Preparing Prospective Mathematics Teachers to Teach with Technology: An Integrated                                             Approach                                  
Amount:                        $74,787

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Archived Research Projects:

Principal Investigator: Audry Jaeger
Sponsor:                       Association for Institutional Research
Award Period:              06/01/2006-05/31/2007
Title:                             Is Freshman Retention a Consequence of Faculty Employment Status?:How Part-time Faculty                                               Affect Sudent Outcomes
Amount Awarded:        $29,914

Principal Investigator: Timothy Hatcher, Julia Storberg-Walker
Sponsor:                        WakeMed Health & Hospitals
Award Period:               06/01/2005-05/31/2007
Title:                             WakeMed Workforce Development Return on Value (WDROV)
Amount:                        $20,000

Principal Investigator: Susan Osborne, Ann Schulte (College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Lead)
Sponsor:                        US Department of Education
Award Period:               06/01/2001-5/31/2007
Title:                             All Together Now: Aligning School Physchology Training & Practice with the Needs of Students                                           with Disabilities
Amount:                        $36,843 (Total Award $684,275)

Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe, Michael Carter (College of Humanities and Social Sciences-Lead), Alton Banks, James                                        Mikle, Robert Beichner
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              01/15/2003-05/31/2007
Title:                             LabWrite: A National Web-based Initiative to Use the Lab Report to Help Students Write, Visualize                                         and Understand Science
Amount:                        $192,187 (Total Award $489,159)

Principal Investigator: John Penick, Jerianne Taylor, Richard Peterson, Sarah Berenson
Sponsor:                       National Science Foundation
Award Period:              08/01/2001-01/31/2007
Title:                            Teck*Know: Integrated Instructional Materials for Technological Literacy
Amount:                       $1,824,387

Principal Investigator: Braska Williams
Sponsor:                      NC Space Grant Consortium
Award Period:              09/01/2006-04/20/2007
Title:                            North Carolina Students Participating in an Aerospace Collaborative Experience(NC S.P.A.C.E.)
Amount:                      $5,000

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