Project Grant 2044118

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development and evaluation of peer-led learning activities and a training curriculum to support non-traditional students in online engineering courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Through the introduction of peer leaders and synchronous recitation sessions, the awardee aims to provide additional academic and social support to help improve persistence and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $254,966 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop, improve, and deploy adaptive learning platform (ALP) lessons and compare them with one-size-fits-all pre-class activities delivered via a learning management system (LMS) across five engineering courses at three institutions. The project aims to examine how prior knowledge from ALP lessons impacts student cognitive and affective outcomes,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $481,384 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to enhance the Peer+ tool, which supports peer instruction techniques in STEM courses. The project aims to evaluate the effects of three different peer discussion modes - text-chat during lectures, pseudo text-chat after lectures, and traditional in-person peer discussions - on learning outcomes and student satisfaction across...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $653,723 project grant under its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program to the University of Illinois. The 4-year project will develop and test a professional development model that empowers high school science teachers to adapt curriculum materials to integrate students' knowledge and community resources. Working with education researchers, teachers, scientists, and community organizations, the project teams will go through cycles of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) Program project grant for $1,502,771 will fund the development and pilot testing of an asynchronous, collaborative online professional learning (PL) course for middle grades mathematics teachers. The project aims to help teachers provide equitable mathematics instruction to their students by incorporating equity-based teaching practices, such as positioning students as mathematically competent. The 10 PL sessions will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program ($299,499) supports the development of scalable, experiential learning models and tools for undergraduate STEM education from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The University of California Santa Cruz will establish a new pedagogical approach organizing project-based courses around "micro-roles" that scaffold apprenticeship-style learning pathways. This design-based research aims to develop organizational...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and evaluate the T-PRACTISE system, a framework for fostering engaged online and hybrid learning among diverse students. The $400,000 award to The Pennsylvania State University will support three key goals: 1) designing and piloting the T-PRACTISE proof-of-concept system to reduce training and engagement disparities in asynchronous online environments; 2) adapting and extending...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $333,285 to the University of Pittsburgh to create an innovative "Peer-Reviewed Presentation Exchange (PEREPEX)" model that integrates primary biology research literature into large undergraduate courses. The project aims to make research engagement opportunities traditionally available only in advanced courses accessible to a broader range of students, with a focus on inclusivity and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, totaling $421,171 will fund the development of a model to understand instructor implementation of evidence-based teaching practices. Yale University is the primary awardee and will collaborate with the State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Connecticut on this project awarded February 1, 2023 with a projected completion date of January 31,...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...