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CCLI Vision and Scope

Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF 09-529. CCLI Vision and Scope. Vision: Excellent STEM education for all undergraduate students Supports efforts that

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CCLI Vision and Scope

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  1. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathematicsPROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF 09-529

  2. CCLI Vision and Scope • Vision: Excellent STEM education for all undergraduate students • Supports efforts that • Bring advances in STEM disciplinary knowledge into curriculum • Create or adapt learning materials and teaching strategies • Develop faculty expertise • Promote widespread implementation of educational innovations • Prepare future K-12 teachers • Enhance our understanding of how students learn STEM topics • Enhance our understanding how faculty adopt instructional approaches • Build capacity for assessment and evaluation • Further the work of the program itself

  3. CCLI Vision and Scope (Cont) • Program especially encourages projects that: • Have potential to transform undergraduate STEM education • Produce widespread adoption of classroom practices based on how students learn • Explore cyberlearning

  4. PROJECT COMPONENTS • Creating Learning Materials and Strategies • Incorporate ideas from research on teaching and learning • Incorporate scientific advances in disciplines • Implementing New Instructional Strategies • Implement proven or promising techniques in ways that encourage widespread adoption • Add knowledge about transfer of strategies and impact on learning • Developing Faculty Expertise • Increase instructor’s knowledge and skills on curricula and teaching practices • Involve diverse group of faculty

  5. PROJECT COMPONENTS (cont) • Assessing and Evaluating Student Achievement • Develop and disseminate valid and reliable tests of STEM knowledge and skills • Collect, synthesize, and interpret information about students • Conducting Research on Undergraduate STEM Education • Explore how undergraduate STEM students learn • Explore how practices have diffused and how faculty and programs implement changes • NOTE: Instrumentation and equipment requests are appropriate -- based learning impact

  6. Important Project Features • Quality, Relevance, and Impact • Describe a recognized need or opportunity and an innovative approach • Student Focus • Link activities and improvements in STEM learning • Knowledge about STEM Education: • Build on existing work & disseminate new finding and results • STEM Education Community-Building • Interact with others in the STEM education community • Sustainability • Demonstrate reasonable expectation of persistent effects • Expected Measurable Outcomes • Describe goals & expected measurable outcomes • Project Evaluation • Monitor progress toward expected outcomes and success in achieving them

  7. Type 1 Projects • 70 to 75 awards expected • Total budget up to $200,000 for 2 to 3 years • 250,000 when 4-year and 2-year schools collaborate • Deadline • May 21, 2009 (A-M states) • May 22, 2009 (N-Z states) • Typically involve a single institution & one program component • Contribute to the understanding of undergraduate STEM education

  8. Type 2 Projects • 20 to 25 awards expected • Total budget up to $600,000 for 2 to 4 years. • Deadline January 13, 2010 • Typically involve multiple institutions & several program components – but exceptions • Typically based on prior work with results explicitly described – but exceptions • Produce evidence on the effectiveness • Institutionalize at the participating schools

  9. Type 3 Projects • 3 to 5 awards expected • Budget negotiable, but not to exceed $5,000,000 over 5 years. • Deadline January 13, 2010 • Large scale efforts • Typically based on prior work with results explicitly described – but exceptions • Produce evidence of student learning in a broad population • Describe impact of the work on the prevailing models • Describe strategies for implementation in new contexts

  10. CCLI Central Resource Projects • 1 to 3 awards expected • Budget negotiable, depending on the scope and scale of the activity • Small focused workshop projects -- 1 to 2 years & up to $100,000 • Large scale projects -- 3 to 5 years & $300,000 to $3,000,000 • Deadline January 13, 2010 • Implement activities to sustain the STEM community • Increase the capabilities of and communications in the STEM community • Increase and document the impact of CCLI projects

  11. NSF Merit Review Criteria`` • Standard intellectual merit and the broader impacts review criteria • Additional intellectual merit review criteria • Produce exemplary material, processes, or models that enhance student learning • Yield important findings related to student learning • Build on existing knowledge about STEM education • State expected outcomes & integrate them into evaluation plan • Describe evaluation plan that is likely to produce useful information • Additional broader impacts review criteria • Contribute to the understanding of STEM education • Help build the STEM education community • Have a broad impact on recognized need or opportunity • Have the potential to contribute to transformative change

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