Active College of Education Research Projects
Curriculum & Instruction
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies &
Adult and Higher Education Education
Elementary Education
Friday Institute
Mathematics,
Science & Technology Education
Archived Research Projects
Curriculum & Instruction
Principal Investigator: Patricia Marshall,
Jessica DeCuir, Allison McCulloch
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Nuturing Mathematics Dreamkeepers
Amount:
$4,012,537
Website:
http://ced.ncsu.edu/nmd/Flash_Index.htm
Principal Investigator: Ruie Pritchard
Sponsor:
National
Writing Projecct Corp
Title:
National Writing Project at NCSU (Capital Area Writing Project/CAWP)
Amount:
$488,000
Principal Investigator: Ellen Vasu, 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:
$96,156
Principal Investigator: Raymond Ting, Yu-Fai Leung (College
of Natural Resources)
Sponsor:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Title:
Geosciences in Middle Schools (GIMS)
Amount:
$171,222
Principal Investigator: Jessica DeCuir, Christine Grant
(College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
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
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 (CHASS-Lead), Maria Oliver-Hoyo
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
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: Anona Smith
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Title:
North Carolina State University Teacher Recruitment Plan
Amount:
$158,364
Principal Investigator: Jason Osborne, Sylvia Nassar-McMillan
Sponsor:
National Institute of Aerospace/NASA
Title:
NASA Education Television - NETV
Amount:
$260,001
Elementary Education
Principal Investigator: Ellen McIntyre
Sponsor:
National Council of Teachers of English
Title:
Teaching the "Science of Reading" Through Equity Pedagogy
Amount:
$14,975
Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies
& Adult and Higher Education
Principal Investigator: Joy Gayles
Sponsor:
Association for Institutional Research
Title:
The Effects of College on Degree Attainment for Women
and Underrepresented
Minorities in the Sciences at
Four-year
Colleges and Universities
Amount:
$39,781
Principal Investigator: Patti Clayton (Center for Excellence
in Curricular Engagement), Audrey Jaeger
Sponsor:
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health
Title:
Transforming the Land-Grant Institution for the 21st Century through Education
and Discovery Grounded
in Engaged Scholarship
Amount:
$10,000
Friday Institute
Principal Investigator: Jere Confrey
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Diagnostic E-Learning Trajectories Approach (DELTA)
Applied to Rational Number
Reasoning
for Grades 3-8
Amount:
$1,969,994
Principal Investigator: Jere Confrey
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Synthesizing Rational Number Reasoning for Urban Schools
Amount:
$132,357
Principal Investigator: Jere Confrey
Sponsor:
Weldon City Schools/NC Dept of Public Instruction
Title:
NC STEM
Amount:
$259,370
Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta, William Tucci,
Michael Young, Thomas Miller, Deborah Mangum
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
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
Title:
Multimodal Science: Supporting Elementary Science Education
through
Graphic-Enhanced
Communication
Amount:
$404,216
Principal Investigator: Karen Hollebrands, Laura Bottomley
(College of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation/GE Foundation
Title:
RAMP-UP: Engineers and Teachers Working for Mathematics
Success
Amount:
$704,237 (Total Award $2,221,489)
Principal Investigator: Jeni Corn
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
Evaluation of North Carolina's One-to-One Laptop Pilot-Year
1
Amount:
$200,000
Principal Investigator: Melinda Mollette, Amy Overbay
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
Statewide Evaluation of North Carolina's Enhancing Education
through
Technology
Competitive Grant:Impact IV
Amount:
$362,304
Principal Investigator: Amy Overbay
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
IMPACT 1 Renewal
Amount:
$85,000
Principal Investigator: Melinda Mollette, Amy Overbay
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
Statewide Evaluation of North Carolina's Enhancing
Education
Through Technology
Competitive Grant: Impact III
Amount:
$340,300
Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe, Sarah Carrier
Sponsor:
UNC-Greensboro/National Science Foundation
Title:
Universal BEATS: Universal BioMusic Education Achievement
Tier in Science
Amount:
$153,422
Principal Investigator: Hiller Spires, James Lester (College
of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Major: The Narrative Theatre - A Creativity Enhancement
Environment
Amount:
$286,002 (Total Award $780,868)
Principal Investigator: Hiller Spires, John Nietfeld,
James Minogue,
James Lester (College
of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Developing Science Problem Solving Skills and Engagement
Through Intelligent
Game-Based
Learning Environments
Amount:
$1,150,465 (Total Award $2,523,295)
Principal Investigator: Glenn Kleiman, Dennis Kekas
(Engineering Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Increasing the Pipeline: Research and Education on Stimulating
Interest
in High Confidence Software and Systems
Amount:
$50,893 (Total Award $105,000)
Principal Investigator: Glenn Kleiman
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
North Carolina 1:1 Learning Project FY09-Professional Development
Amount:
$70,500
Principal Investigator: Glenn Kleiman, Phil Emer
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
North Carolina 1:1 Learning Project FY09-Project Planning
Amount:
$508,935
Principal Investigator: Jeni Corn
Sponsor:
Edgecombe County Public School/Golden Leaf Foundation
Title:
North Carolina 1:1 Learning Learning Initiative Evaluation Plan
Edgecombe County Schools/GoldenLeaf
Amount:
$50,000
Principal Investigator: Jeni Corn
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
Evaluation of North Carolina's One to One Laptop Pilot Program-Year
2
Amount:
$200,000
Principal Investigator: Glenn Kleiman, Verna Lalbeharie,
Emmy Colemen
Sponsor:
SAS Institute
Title:
Redesigned High Schools 2.0:Proposed Expansion of the NC
1-2 Learning Project
Amount:
$74,750
Principal Investigator:Verna Lalbeharie, Emmy Colemen
Sponsor:
Golden
Leaf Foundation
Title:
Golden Leaf Grant Proposal-1:1 Learning Technology Initiatives
Amount:
$300,000
Principal Investigator: Bernice Campbell
Sponsor:
Fayetteville State University/UNC-GA
Title:
Middle Math Teacher Academy: Effective Content and Literacy
Instruction in
Algebra Readiness and Algebraic Thinking for 6-8 Teachers
Amount:
$6,654
Mathematics, Science & Technology Education
Principal Investigator: Gail Jones
Sponsor:
UNC-Chapel
Hill (Prime--National Science Foundation)
Title:
NIRT: Bio-Inspired Actuating Structures
Amount:
$225,494
Principal Investigator: Sally Berenson, Mladen Vouk,
Joan Michael, Roger Woodard, Susan Bracken
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
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)
Title:
BPC-A: The STARS Alliance: A Southeastern Partnership for Diverse
Participation
in Computing
Amount:
$95,000 (Total Award $285,698)
Principal Investigator: Eric Wiebe, George Rouskas, (College
of Engineering-Lead), Lisa Bullard, (Eng.)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation/GE Foundation
Title:
CPATH CB: Computing Across Curricula
Amount:
$12,624 (Total Award $274,749)
Principal Investigator: William Deluca, Aaron Clark,
Lenard Annetta,
Herbert Eckerlin
(Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.), Pam Carpenter (Solar Center)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Grid-C:Green Research for Incorporating Data in the Classroom
Amount:
$199,986
Principal Investigator: Hollylynne Lee, Karen Hollebrands,
Irina Kogan (Mathematics),
Pamela Arroway
(PAMS-Statistics)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Noyce Mathematics Education Teaching Scholars at NC State University
Amount:
$994,273
Principal Investigator: Karen Keene
Sponsor:
Valparaiso University/National Science Foundation
Title:
Collaborative Research:Tutoring to Apply Conceptual Understanding
of
Ordinary Differential
Equations: Analysis for Cognitive and Computable Patterns
Amount:
$62,849
Principal Investigator: Karen Keene, Robert Young (College
of Engineering-Lead)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Mathematics Instruction using Decision Science and Engineering
Tools
Amount:
$493,577 (Total Award $3,000,000)
Principal Investigator: Margaret Blanchard, Herbert Underwood
(Biology), Jason Osborne
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)/US Department of Education
Title:
SMART for Teachers: Science and Mathematics Achievement through
Enriched Technology for
Teachers, Phase II
Amount:
$149,847
Principal Investigator: Patricia Simmons, Margaret Blanchard
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)/Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Title:
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholars Program
Amount:
$470,000
Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta, James Minogue,
John Penick
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
STIMULATE (Science Training Immersive Modules For University
Learning Around Teacher
Education)
Amount:
$199,795
Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta
Sponsor:
University
of Florida/National Science Foundation
Title:
OUTBREAK:Opportunities to Use Immersive Technologies
to Explore Biotechnology
Resources, Career Education And Knowledge
Amount:
$197,729
Principal Investigator: Leonard Annetta, Bill Deluca,
Bonnie Fusarelli, Edwin Gerler,
Valerie Brown-Schild
(Kenan Institute)
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Title:
Games Requiring Advanced Developmental Understanding
and Achievement in Technological
Endeavors [GRADUATE]
Amount:
$1,497,220
Principal Investigator: Gail Jones, Herbert Underwood
(Zoology)
Sponsor:
Durham Public Schools/NC Department of Public Instruction
Title:
TOSS (Trajectory of Science Scholars) Project
Amount:
$77,076
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
Principal Investigator: Audry Jaeger
Sponsor:
Association for Institutional Research
Award Period:
06/01/2007-08/15/2008
Title:
Connecting Faculty Employment Status and Student Outcomes in Community
Colleges
Amount Awarded:
$30,000
Principal Investigator: Duane Akroyd, Carol Kasworm,
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 Awarded: $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
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: 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: 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
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
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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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
Principal Investigator: Jason Osborne, Kevin Oliver,
Kevin Brady
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
03/30/2008-06/30/2008
Title:
Evaluation of the NC Virtual Public Schools
Amount:
$71,315
Principal Investigator: Carl Young, John Lee, Carol
Pope, Candy Beal
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Award Period:
03/01/2007-09/31/2008
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: Ellen Vasu, Jason Osborne
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
03/01/2003-09/30/2008
Title:
Looking at North Carolina Educational Technology (LANCET)
Amount:
$493,816
Principal Investigator: Ellen Vasu, Jason Osborne, Lisa
Grable, Amy Overbay
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
09/01/2006-09/30/2008
Title:
IMPACT-Leadership
Amount:
$126,000
Principal Investigator: Alan Reiman
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Award Period:
03/30/2007-12/01/2008
Title:
Facilitating New Teacher Induction Efforts
Amount:
$45,000
Principal Investigator: Edward Sabornie
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)
Award Period:
04/01/2008-12/31/2008
Title:
Project TALENT: Training All Lateral ENtry Teachers
Amount:
$30,000
Principal Investigator: Sally Berenson, Jason Osborne,
Mladen Vouk (College of Engineering-Lead),
Laurie Williams
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
Award Period:
07/15/2003-06/30/2009
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: Margaret Blanchard, Robert Bruck
(Plant Pathology)
Sponsor:
UNC-Office of the President (GA)/US Department of Education
Award Period:
03/13/2008-09/30/2009
Title:
SMART for Teachers: Science and Mathematics Achievement
through
Enriched
Technology for Teachers
Amount:
$296,965
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:
07/15/2004-06/30/2009
Title:
Scale and Scaling Across the Science Domains
Amount:
$703,305
Principal Investigator: Phil Emer
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
12/17/2007-12/30/2008
Title:
School Connectivity Initiative FY08-Establish NCEdNet
Governance
and Funding Plans
Amount:
$310,632
Principal Investigator: Phil Emer
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
08/27/2007-08/31/2008
Title:
School Connectivity Initiative FY08 - Establish the K12 Common
Network
Amount:
$1,359,032
Principal Investigator: Phil Emer
Sponsor:
NC Department of Public Instruction
Award Period:
12/14/2007-12/30/2008
Title:
School Connectivity Initiative FY08-Establish the Core
Functions of NCEdNet
Amount:
$422,707
