Special session - strengths and weakness in NSF curriculum development proposals as identified by reviewers and strategies for dealing with them

The goal of the session is to enable the participants to prepare more competitive curriculum development NSF proposals by making them aware of the role that reviewers play in the proposal decision process, the factors that reviewers consider in processing proposals, and approaches for anticipating and responding to these factors. The session is based on an analysis of the engineering proposals submitted in the CCLI Phase 1 competition in 2005 and 2006. The analysis will identify the most common strengths and weaknesses cited by the review panels in discussing the proposals. The interactive session will be structured so that the participants will develop an understanding of these data and identify approaches for enhancing these strengths and dealing with these weaknesses as they prepare future proposals.