Project Grant 1954427

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance STEM faculty engagement with educational research and effective teaching practices at the University of South Alabama and three regional community colleges. The $184,224 project, running from October 2024 to September 2026, will create and sustain faculty learning communities to develop a shared vision for improving equitable STEM education across the participating institutions. Key...

This Project Grant award of $344,033 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) was made to the University Enterprises, Inc. (doing business as Sacramento State Sponsored Research) at California State University, Sacramento. The project, titled "PROJECT-SOAR: INVESTIGATING STUDENTS' (S) ONLINE SELF-EFFICACY (O), ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (A) AND COURSE REDESIGN (R) - BUILDING MY CAPACITY IN SCIENCE EDUCATION RESEARCH", aims to study how student...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $361,296 to Baylor College of Medicine over three years to develop the capacity of future STEM teachers through authentic research experiences involving data analytics. Specifically, the award aims to immerse six prospective secondary STEM teachers per year in mentored summer research experiences related to biological applications of data science at Baylor...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant awarded to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research for $541,575 aims to develop a comprehensive statistical framework, software tools, illustrative examples, and training materials to support the optimal design of longitudinal studies in STEM education. Specifically, the project will create two new software tools - "PowerUPR-Growth" and an R Shiny app - to provide applied researchers with practical and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $444,348 to Virginia Commonwealth University to develop a digital platform and classroom strategies for improving undergraduate STEM students' professional skills. The three-year award beginning in March 2023 will support creating a digital platform pre-loaded with customizable rubrics from the prior NSF-funded Enhancing Learning by...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program award to the University of Pittsburgh will create and validate a Personalized Learning Model (PLM) for graduate STEM education. The $500,000 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026, aims to break the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to graduate STEM training by developing a model that addresses issues of inclusivity and removes barriers to participation by underrepresented...

This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research at Cal Poly Corporation to characterize undergraduate STEM research experiences and student outcomes. The three-year award aims to develop and validate a multi-dimensional measure of the work design structure of academic-year undergraduate research experiences. Researchers will adapt an established work design survey from organizational psychology for the STEM research...

This $198,956 National Science Foundation project grant supports San Diego Mesa College in developing and testing collaborative learning opportunities to strengthen STEM identity and increase degree and career pathway selection among students. Through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions program, the college will revise curricula and compare three models for providing classroom- and field-based research experiences across biology, physical geology, and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of departmental change efforts that can transform undergraduate STEM education. The $136,024 award to National Louis University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and Western Michigan University, will conduct a two-pronged project: (1) a landscape study on methods for supporting STEM departmental...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...