Federal Laboratories Research and Development Survey

Project Overview While some surveys collect information from federal agencies on their external research and development (R&D) funding, comprehensive data are lacking on intramural R&D expenditures, the number of federal R&D personnel, and the amount of space within federal laboratories dedicated to R&D activities. The National Science Foundation is collecting this information to inform international[...]

Project Overview Each year, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reviews nearly 50,000 research proposals in all fields of science and science education, with the goal of identifying the highest quality proposals to receive funding. Currently, NSF project officers assign each proposal to a technical panel of reviewers with relevant content expertise to read and evaluate[...]

Project Overview The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Program promotes innovative, interdisciplinary initiatives in engineering research and education. EFRI pursues research projects that embrace new frontiers in engineering research and supports projects that generate transformative ideas in areas with a demonstrated need. EFRI aimed to create a new outcome monitoring system to streamline[...]

Project Overview This study evaluated the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. The ATE program seeks to produce more highly qualified science and engineering technicians to meet workforce demands in strategic advanced technology fields and improve the technical skills and general science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (known as STEM) preparation of these[...]

Project Overview Insight developed a formative evaluation of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Career-Life Balance (CLB) initiative. The CLB is a 10-year initiative that supports family-friendly policy solutions to promote work-life balance among science and engineering graduate students, postdoctorate fellows, and faculty at institutions of higher education. Supplemental grants can be used, for example, to[...]

Project Overview The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program responds to a growing national concern about improving the educational performance of U.S. children in mathematics and science. Through MSP, NSF awards competitive merit-based grants to teams of institutions of higher education, local K–12 school systems, and their supporting partners. The MSP[...]

Project Overview Insight is leading an evaluation of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Merit Review Process. Principal investigators (PIs) submit approximately 50,000 proposals to NSF each year, and reviewers evaluate each one against two main criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts. The goal of this study is to conduct a biennial web survey of PIs’[...]

Project Overview Insight conducted an evaluation of three grant opportunities the National Science Foundation (NSF) administers as part of the Gender in Science and Engineering (GSE) program: research, diffusion, and extension projects. The overall goal of the GSE program is to promote a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce by increasing the[...]