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Opportunity Summary:

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program is a discretionary grant opportunity designed to push forward the research base on how people learn, are taught, and are assessed in STEM fields. Its central purpose is to generate foundational knowledge that can improve STEM teaching and learning across all educational levels and settings, ranging from early childhood and K-12 through undergraduate and graduate education, informal learning environments, and continuing learning in the workforce. REESE is explicitly research-focused and emphasizes work at the frontiers of STEM learning, education, and evaluation, meaning it is meant to advance theory, methods, and evidence rather than primarily fund implementation or routine program delivery.

REESE is organized around four proposal types: Pathways, Knowledge Diffusion, Empirical Research, and Large Empirical Research. Together, these tracks support a portfolio that spans the full pipeline of building and spreading knowledge. In practice, that means the program is interested both in producing rigorous empirical findings (including larger, more comprehensive studies where appropriate) and in strengthening the way the field shares, translates, and uses that knowledge so it actually influences future research and educational practice. A notable theme running throughout the solicitation is methodological and evaluation research: REESE treats improved research methods, measurement, and evaluation approaches as core contributions, not side topics.

The program states three main goals. First, it aims to catalyze discovery and innovation at the leading edge of STEM learning, education, and evaluation research. Second, it seeks to raise the overall quality and robustness of research results by supporting progress in theory, research methods, and the development of human resources (in other words, building the field itself). Third, it aims to coordinate and transform advances across education research, learning research, and evaluation, encouraging interdisciplinary work that connects insights and tools that often sit in separate academic or professional communities.

REESE places particular value on interdisciplinary teams and the direct involvement of STEM disciplinary experts, reflecting NSF's interest in grounding education research in the realities of specific STEM domains. It also strongly emphasizes the engagement of early-career scholars and trainees, including doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career investigators, suggesting that projects that meaningfully incorporate mentorship, training, and roles for emerging researchers align well with the program's priorities.

From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number 09-601; NSF Publication 09-601) is a grant program in the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category. NSF anticipated about 50 awards with an estimated total funding level of $27,000,000, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning the program is broadly open to many entity types, subject to any clarifications in the full solicitation. The posting date was July 31, 2009, and the full proposal deadline was November 12, 2009, with the opportunity later archived on July 21, 2010.

Applicants seeking more details were directed to the full announcement and NSF support resources, including grants.gov support for access issues. Overall, REESE is best understood as NSF's mechanism for funding high-impact, methodologically strong, and often interdisciplinary research that improves what is known about STEM learning and evaluation, while also building capacity in the next generation of STEM education researchers.

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