[STEM-funding] NSF RDE

[Christopher Andersen]

*1) NSF Research in Disabilities Education (RDE):* The National Science
Foundation has released a revised solicitation for its RDE program (
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482). The solicitation
describes two types of projects:

*RDE-Model Building (RDE-MB)** - *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.

*RDE-Broadening Participation Research in STEM Education** (RDE-BPR)* -
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.
Funding varies by type of proposal and level:
*RDE-MB Level 1* (Designing, developing and testing models): up to $800,000
over 48 months
*RDE-MB Level 2* (Replicating, translating and implementing models): up to
$1,000,000 over 48 months
*RDE-BPR Level 1* (Fundamental learning and educational research,
early-stage studies, and design and development research): up to $500,000
over 36 months
*RDE-BPR Level 2* (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

All proposals are due June 1.

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Christopher Andersen
Director, STEM Initiatives
College of Arts and Sciences
The Ohio State University
186 University Hall
230 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1335 USA
andersen.18 at osu.edu
https://stemoutreach.osu.edu/

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