Project Grant 0822175

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education aims to develop and evaluate an empirically-defensible model for increasing STEM persistence and graduation rates among underrepresented students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the $500,000 award made to Our Lady of the Lake University on January 1, 2023 will support redesigning the institution's College Algebra course into three...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $400,000 to Los Angeles Pierce College from October 2022 to September 2024 to support collaborative undergraduate research experiences in mathematical sciences for community college students. Specifically, the award adapts the proven Research Experiences in Community Colleges model into an online community of practice. Each year, teams of two community college students, one community college...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to gain deeper insights into how undergraduate students in computer science and mathematics approach and comprehend fundamental discrete mathematics concepts. The $175,000 award to the California State University Long Beach Research Foundation will span one academic year from August 2024 to July 2025. The project will utilize a novel analytical approach combining the frameworks of...

This $370,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The project will investigate students' experiences when collaborating on pair programming tasks in the data science classroom, with a focus...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $418,180 to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte to deliver collaborative research and student support services from July 2022 to June 2025. The award aims to improve outcomes for 1,900+ African American men in entry-level mathematics courses at four North Carolina institutions through culturally relevant advising, mentoring,...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $2,230,149 to Mississippi State University will support a collaborative research hub focused on increasing the retention, graduation, and STEM career participation of rural, low-income college students. The award will fund the development of a strategic alliance among five rural-serving institutions (RSIs) to conduct research on factors influencing the belonging, persistence, and academic/career outcomes of this student population. Key...

This $347,370 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of active assessment strategies aligned with active learning methods in collegiate mathematics. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grant aims to build capacity for high-quality STEM education research and practice. Specifically, the awardee, California State University, East Bay Foundation, will integrate student and instructor perspectives on active assessment through communities of...

This $330,021 STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (CFDA 47.076) awarded by the National Science Foundation supports a two-year project to advance community-engaged mentoring approaches for prospective secondary mathematics teachers. The project aims to: (1) develop a theory of community-engaged mentoring to support justice-oriented pedagogies, (2) increase understanding of mentoring practices related to justice-oriented mathematics teaching, and (3) create a new model for secondary...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $353,389 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Ohio State University to research and develop a model for the Rising Doctoral Institute (RDI), a program aimed at improving the transition and success of underrepresented minority students in engineering doctoral programs. The 5-year project has two key goals: 1) researching the factors that lead to successful transitions into engineering doctoral programs for...

This $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support Texas State University in developing equitable group work strategies for proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses. Over a two-year period ending December 2025, the university will design and implement instructor workshops on incorporating group-worthy tasks adapted from K-12 complex instruction principles. It will also study the...