Revised Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guidelines
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program
National Science Foundation
Full Proposal Deadline: 13 January 2010
For further information, please contact:
Jill Singer
Email: jksinger [at] nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-5323
Or go to the solicitation website:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal and Award Policies and
Procedures Guide for the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
(CCLI) Program solicitation (NSF 09-529) has been revised. The revised
changes include a new program opportunity that invites proposals for
projects that would provide leadership and contribute to transforming
undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
education. Geoscience faculty are encouraged to submit proposals to this
program.
The most recent program solicitation (NSF 09-529) invites proposals for
Central Resource Projects that provide leadership and implementation of
activities that sustain a community of practice engaged in transforming
undergraduate STEM education. CCLI Central Resource projects could:
1. Support activities intended to increase communication within the
STEM education community and increase the impact of CCLI projects;
2. Provide leadership in the dissemination of STEM instructional
materials and practices, as well as ways to integrate research
experiences into the undergraduate curriculum;
3. Provide expertise about assessing student learning and findings on
what is known about how students learn and what pedagogies work under
what conditions; and / or
4. Provide for a series of meetings designed to increase cooperation
and collaboration among large groups of PIs with similar interests.
One of the significant changes between the new solicitation and the one
it replaces is that "types" have replaced "phases." The new solicitation
allows proposals to be submitted as Type 1, Type 2, or Type 3 requests.
These three types are independent and correspond to different levels of
support and scale, scope, and stage of development. Type 1 projects
typically are of smaller scale, scope, and stage than Types 2 and 3 and
have budgets up to $200,000 ($250,000 for projects involving
collaborations between four-year colleges and universities and two-year
colleges), for 2 to 3 years. Type 2 projects have budgets up to $600,000
for 2 to 4 years, and Type 3 projects have budgets up to $5 million over
5 years.
The following should be considered when submitting a proposal:
- Determine how your ideas best match the solicitation;
- Articulate goals, objectives, and outcomes and explain how the
proposed activities contribute to improving student learning;
- Build on the existing knowledge base; review the literature and
demonstrate you are aware of what others have done and how your
proposed effort is informed by previous work;
- Explore potential collaborations with industry, business, or other
academic departments and institutions;
- Use data to document existing shortcomings in student learning;
- Describe your management plan (identify tasks, timeline, and roles
and responsibilities for each member of your project team);
- Integrate project evaluation into your proposed project - identify an
independent and experienced project evaluator to clarify the nature of
your project, purpose of the evaluation, and what questions,
instruments, methods, and assessments will guide the evaluation;
- Identify strategies for dissemination, including workshops in
association with professional conferences; and
- Provide letters of support, collaboration, etc. as evidence of prior
planning.
Consider submitting proposals that take advantage of new research
findings, technological opportunities made possible via the Internet,
visualization software, or developing instruments and tools for
acquiring and analyzing various types of geoscientific data (one recent
example is Lidar).
The CCLI program does not take letters of intent or preliminary
proposals. The deadline for Types 2 and 3 full proposals and for CCLI
Central Resource Project proposals is 13 January 2010. However, CCLI
Central Resource Project proposals for small focused workshops may be
submitted at any time after consulting with a program officer.
For further information, please contact:
Jill Singer
Email: jksinger [at] nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-5323
Or go to the solicitation webpage:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741