{"id":5658,"date":"2019-06-25T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2019-06-25T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:33:30","slug":"research-office-requests-one-page-summaries-for-nsf-advancing-informal-stem-learning-aisl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2019\/06\/25\/research-office-requests-one-page-summaries-for-nsf-advancing-informal-stem-learning-aisl\/","title":{"rendered":"Research office requests one page summaries for NSF Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Synopsis<\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">The\u00a0<strong class=\"\">Advancing Informal STEM Learning<\/strong>\u00a0(AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The AISL program supports six types of projects: (1) Pilots and Feasibility Studies, (2) Research in Service to Practice, (3) Innovations in Development, (4) Broad Implementation, (5) Literature Reviews, Syntheses, or Meta-Analyses, and (6) Conferences.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Project Summary \u2013 1 page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following NSF instructions &#8211; Each proposal must have a summary of the proposed project not more than one page in length. The Project Summary should be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Written in the third person, informative to other persons working in the same or related fields, and, insofar as possible, understandable to a scientifically or technically literate lay reader. It should not be an abstract of the proposal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Project Summary consists of three sections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first sentence must identify the AISL project type: Pilots and Feasibility Studies, Research in Service to Practice, Innovations in Development, Broad Implementation, or Conferences, Literature Reviews, Syntheses, or Meta-analyses, or Conferences. For Literature Reviews, Syntheses, or Meta-analyses, indicate which kind is being proposed.<\/p>\n<p>The Overview includes a description of the activity that will result if the proposal is funded and a statement of objectives and methods to be employed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) Intellectual Merit: a statement on the intellectual merit of the proposed activity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement on intellectual merit should describe the potential of the proposed activity to advance knowledge building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(3) Broader Impacts: a statement on the broader impacts of the proposed activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement on broader impacts should describe the potential of the proposed activity to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The AISL priorities (e.g., strategic impact, knowledge building, innovation, collaboration, infrastructure and capacity building, and broadening participation) may be a part of either Intellectual Merit, Broader Impacts, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis The\u00a0Advancing Informal STEM Learning\u00a0(AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2019\/06\/25\/research-office-requests-one-page-summaries-for-nsf-advancing-informal-stem-learning-aisl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}