Block Grant 2020YSBX0061

The federal Project Grant award of $543,245.00, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Special Education Parent Information Centers (CFDA 84.328) program, supports the TEAM Project operated by Partners Resource Network Inc. in the Texas Region 1. The TEAM Project provides training, technical assistance, and resources to parents, families, and professionals working with children who have disabilities. This includes...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $200,592 to Northwestern University will fund the "Collaborative Research: HNDS-R: Advancing Diverse Viable Effective Networked Teams (ADVENT)" project. The research aims to create an open-source computational network model to optimize team formation by integrating functional individual differences and member affinity. The researchers will train and test this model...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support collaborative research by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to investigate faculty and student practices that shape the regulation of teamwork, psychological safety, and conflict in first-year engineering teams. The $163,096 award, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028, aims to address critical needs in engineering education by improving how students learn to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $250,000 to Oregon State University (OSU) to develop a framework for assessing individual student contributions to team software projects in undergraduate computing education. The project aims to create a novel teaching and assessment approach where students document and reflect on their project tasks and learning outcomes, which are then evaluated by instructors and peers....

This Project Grant award, totaling $373,576, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076). The award aims to investigate strategies for effective teamwork in engineering education, with the goal of improving student persistence and success in engineering programs. The project will implement and assess a teamwork intervention, as well as conduct a nationwide survey and interviews with engineering...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Engineering Education and Centers provides $490,174 to Purdue University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 2022 through August 2025. The funding will support research to develop and validate a new survey instrument to measure student engagement in team-based learning across academic disciplines, with a focus on identifying differences based on gender, race/ethnicity and other factors. Leveraging data...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program grant award of $562,752 will support Northeastern Technical College's "Technical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing" (TEAM) project in Cheraw, South Carolina. The project aims to develop a technician-based engineering technology program to address the local manufacturing sector's need for skilled technicians. The key components of the TEAM project include: Collaborating with a Business and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $153,597 over 2 years to the University of Delaware. The project aims to develop strategies for coaching undergraduate near-peer mentors to support first-year engineering students experiencing team conflicts during team-based projects in large introductory engineering courses. The research will first document common causes of student team conflicts, then use mixed-reality...

This federal Project Grant award of $460,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) under the Social Services Research and Demonstration (SSRD) program (CFDA 93.647). The award was granted to Team Inc., a non-profit organization based in Derby, Connecticut, to support comprehensive social services and community-focused interventions targeting low-income and vulnerable populations. Key focus areas include early childhood...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and evaluate a pedagogical approach for assessing individual contributions in undergraduate software engineering team projects. The $127,717 award to Washington State University, spanning from July 2024 to June 2027, will focus on deriving desirable qualities of software engineering artifacts, enabling students to assess and reflect on their own and peers' contributions. The...