<b>1) NSF Research in Disabilities Education (RDE):</b> The National Science Foundation has released a revised solicitation for its RDE program (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482">http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482</a>). The solicitation describes two types of projects:<br>
<p style="margin-left:40px"><strong><em>RDE-Model Building (RDE-MB)</em></strong><em> - </em>These
projects broaden the participation and achievement of postsecondary
students with disabilities in STEM by creating, replicating, translating
and implementing innovative educational and institutional capacity
building models. RDE-MB projects employ evidence-based educational
exemplars that improve the learning, participation, persistence and
graduation of postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM degree
programs. These projects must have a strong theoretical base and
initiatives must be justified by the relevant educational, disability,
and social science research. </p>
<p style="margin-left:40px"><strong><em>RDE-Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education</em></strong><strong> <em>(RDE-BPR)</em></strong>
- These projects to investigate the underlying issues affecting the
differential learning, participation, retention and graduation rates of
postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM. Proposed research may
investigate learning and educational influences as well as
organizational, institutional or systemic processes that broaden the
participation of postsecondary students with disabilities in STEM.
Disability should be the main focus of the research and analysis, with
race, ethnicity, gender, economic status, and/or veteran status as
potential secondary foci. Projects catalyze the acquisition of knowledge
that may inform interventions impacting learning, persistence, and
graduation in STEM for postsecondary students with disabilities under
certain conditions and in specific educational contexts. BPR can also
be found in other solicitations in the Division of Research on Learning
in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) and in the Division of Human
Resource Development (HRD). DRL's Research and Evaluation on Education
in Science and Engineering (REESE) solicitation has a strand called BPR
that converges with elements of the Research on Gender in Science and
Engineering (GSE) and RDE solicitations; the new BPR strand is jointly
managed by DRL and HRD with coordination by the RDE, GSE and REESE
programs.</p>Funding varies by type of proposal and level:<br><div style="margin-left:40px"><b><i>RDE-MB Level 1</i></b> (Designing, developing and testing models): up to $800,000 over 48 months<br><i><b>RDE-MB Level 2</b></i> (Replicating, translating and implementing models): up to $1,000,000 over 48 months<br>
<i><b>RDE-BPR Level 1</b></i> (Fundamental learning and educational research, early-stage studies, and design and development research): up to $500,000 over 36 months<br><i><b>RDE-BPR Level 2</b></i> (Efficacy and replication research to inform learning and educational theory, and advance postsecondary STEM learning and education for students with disabilities): up to $600,000 over 48 months<br>
</div><br>All proposals are due June 1.<br><br>-- <br><p>Christopher <span><span>Andersen</span></span><br>Director, <span><span>STEM</span></span> Initiatives<br>
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