Grant Proposal Guide, NSF 01-2 (http://www.nsf.gov/cgi- bin/getpub?nsf012). INFORMATION CONTACTS: Headquarters Office: Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 805, Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292-8600. NSF World Wide Web site URL: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/. Web Site Address: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/. EXAMPLES OF FUNDED PROJECTS: (1) The "Educational Software Components of Tomorrow (ESCOT)" project (a collaboration among nine universities, business, industry, and private foundations) seeks to develop and link software components for the K-12 classroom and understand how to stimulate teachers to customize software for specific lessons. (2) The 225 "Misconceptions About Complex Causality" project (Harvard University is the lead institution) explores how students bring to their learning certain assumptions about the nature of causal patterns that persist and surface in later, even adult, scientific reasoning. The project will develop interventions that lead to increased sophistication of students' causal modeling. (3) The "QuarkNet" project (based at the FERMI National Accelerator Laboratory) provides five years of intensive summer research experiences in physics for secondary teachers, including development of a web-based mechanism for transferring research results to their respective classrooms, along with access to real-time data. (4) The "Promoting
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