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Joan Ferrini-MundyAssistant Director, National Science Foundation

Education and Human Resources

Advisory Committee, Directorate for Education and Human ResourcesApril 30, 2014

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DIRECTORATE FOR EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

Vision: A healthy and vital national science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education enterprise.

Mission: To support research and development on STEM education and learning and to engage and grow a diverse, STEM-literate citizenry ready to advance the frontiers of science and innovate for society.

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Welcome!• New NSF Director France Córdova• New EHR Advisory Committee Members• New EHR staff and assignments

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Transparency and Accountability

• Abstracts• Post-panel reviews• Portfolio analyses

• NSF• FY 2015 Budget Request: $7255.00 Million

• EHR FY 2015 Budget Request: $889.75 Million

• EHR FY 2015 request is shaped by investments in fundamental research, capacity building, and people as well as critical investments in NSF-wide priorities and programs, and cross-agency collaboration.

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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MODEL-BUILDING FOR STEM LEARNING

Investments where questions inform development and model-building and, in turn, model building and development give rise to new questions.

Research Development & Model-Building

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EHR FY 2015 CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET REQUEST

Divisions RequestResearch on Learning in Formal $241.58 million and Informal Settings (DRL)Graduate Education (DGE) $263.34 millionHuman Resource Development (HRD) $143.11 millionUndergraduate Education (DUE) $241.72 million

Total FY 2015 Request: $889.75 million

Change over FY 2014 estimate: $43.25 million (+5.1%)

EHR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK STEM Learning

and Learning Environments

Broadening Participation in

STEM

STEM Professional Workforce

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EHR CORE RESEARCH (ECR) MERGES WITH RESEARCH ON EDUCATION AND LEARNING (REAL)

• Foundational research in areas that are broad, essential, and enduring

• Coherent foundation of theory and research to guide and improve STEM education

• Synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in key areas

Total FY 2015 Request: $75.57 million (+$4.99M over FY14 estimate)

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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE)

$118.48 million

Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)

$ 99.08 million

Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)

$2.5 million

Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)

$ 10.90 million

Directorate for Engineering (ENG)

$6.00 million

Rapidly and dramatically improve U.S. undergraduate STEM education through coherent, agency-wide investment to:

• increase numbers• broaden diversity• improve preparation of STEM professionals

Common system of assessing the impact of the collective investment

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I-Corps for Learning (I-Corps-L)A pilot initiative to study whether the I-Corps model can help to propagate and scale educational innovations

Integrating the Scientific Process and Active Learning

Participating Teams

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Value of I-Corps-L (from the participants)

For their learning innovation...

• “I was really skeptical…I have learned an amazing amount already and look at things very differently than I did two weeks ago”

• “A scientific approach to customer discovery framed within the construct of the business model canvas provides a potentially transformative perspective to propagation of innovations”

• “All faculty who engage in research/funded activities should know this”

And beyond...

• “Already applying it to other projects”

• “Out of my comfort zone, a good challenge”

• “Opens doors to people we wouldn’t normally get to meet”

• “Got an idea of how to use it in my teaching...”

SCIENCE LEARNING +• An international partnership

• Established by NSF, UK-based Wellcome Trust, and UK Economic and Social Research Council

• In collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Noyce Foundation

• Science Learning+ funding (up to $14.4mil) will support• Research into how learning happens outside the classroom• Exploration of effective practice• Building the evidence base

• Objectives• Strengthen the research and knowledge base• Bridge the practice – research gap: • Share knowledge and experience:

• Funding priorities• Understanding learning• Engagement in STEM• Skills development• Equity, diversity, and access to informal learning settings• Measurement of outcomes

For additional information see Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) solicitation, NSF 14-555

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NSF/USAID Partnership

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

• Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide

• Graduate research experiences in underdeveloped countries

• Initial Year: 15 partner countries/47 awards to GRFP Fellows

Leadership and Excellence• February 18-19, 2014 – Successful PAEMST State

Coordinator Meeting• March 2-5, 2014 – ADVANCE PI meeting, with pre –

meeting gathering of presidents and provosts• March 3-5, 2014 – Presidential Awards Recognition

Ceremony

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A current activity: DRAFT

Five Levers, that frame what we can and cannot do:1. Grant Making2. Technical

Assistance3. Communication4. Partnerships5. People

Four goals for the next few years:1. Improve EHR

work environment

2. Improve operating procedures

3. Identify critical challenges, work to find solutions

4. Increase impact

11 Short-Term Projects, to be completed by 12/31/2014, that will move us towards our goals.

Advisory CommitteeRecommendations

Notice 135“accountability & transparency”

Other

FEVS

External Drivers Internal Processes

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Cross-Agency Activities

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FEDERAL STEM EDUCATION 5-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN

Members of the Committee on STEM Education (CoSTEM)

*Department of Agriculture *Environmental Protection Agency*Department of Commerce *Executive Office of the President*Department of Defense *National Aeronautics and Space *Department of Education Administration*Department of Energy *National Science Foundation*Department of Health & Human *Smithsonian Institution

Services*Department of Homeland Security*Department of the Interior*Department of Transportation

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FEDERAL STEM EDUCATION 5-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN

Priority Areas: Lead Convener

*Improve STEM Instruction: Department of Education *Increase and Youth and Public Engagement in STEM: Smithsonian

Institution*Enhance STEM Experience of Undergraduate Students: National Science Foundation*Better Serve Groups Historically Underrepresented in STEM Fields:

National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health*Design Graduate Education for Tomorrow’s STEM Workforce: National

Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health

Coordination Objectives

*Build New Models for Leveraging Assets and Expertise: FC-STEM*Build and Use Evidence-Based Approaches: FC-STEM

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Focus of this meeting• Next steps on “Strategic Re-Envisioning for the Education

and Human Resources Directorate”• Hearing from the AC:

• Collaborations across sectors• Defining the STEM education trajectory• Collaborations across NSF• Reflections from outgoing members• National dialogue on K-12 standards

• Tackling a national issue: growing the STEM workforce