Project Grant 2106168

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 federal Project Grant award of $133,367 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program supports a conference on developing culturally sustaining approaches to science and engineering classroom assessments. The conference aims to: (a) conceptualize culturally sustaining assessment frameworks by drawing on research in STEM education, classroom assessment, and learning sciences; and (b) generate practical examples of culturally sustaining assessments...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $172,947 will fund the development of open response assessments to evaluate undergraduate student engagement in mathematical sensemaking across biology, chemistry, and physics disciplines. Awarded under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the funding will support two aims over a four year period from March 2023 through February 2027. The first aim is to apply an evidence-centered design process to develop open-ended assessment items...

This $119,212 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of open response assessment items to evaluate undergraduate student engagement in mathematical sensemaking across science disciplines. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the California State University, Stanislaus will apply an evidence-centered design process to create assessment items aligned with a three-dimensional learning framework. The university will conduct validity studies,...

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 award under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM Education) program will support the development of open-response assessment items to evaluate undergraduate student engagement in mathematical sensemaking across biology, chemistry, and physics disciplines. With total funding of $699,918 over a four-year period from March 2023 through February 2027, Michigan State University will pursue two aims. The first aim is to apply an...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to investigate how neurodivergent youth can stimulate community-centered learning of electronic circuits through playful arts-based practices in underserved public spaces. The $296,239 award will be used by Arizona State University (ASU) to train 12 neurodivergent youth community educators on electronic circuits and facilitate workshops on circuit bending at two community pop-up...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to support a collaborative conference on innovations in two-year college STEM education. Carleton College, in partnership with Highline College, will develop and implement a multi-day conference to bring together awardees from the NSF's Innovations in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC) program. The $381,872 award, with a project period from April 2025 to March 2026, seeks...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a conference that aims to address the persistent lack of integration of local ecological knowledge with Western STEM education. The $100,000 award, effective from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024, will enable WestEd, a non-profit education research and service agency, to convene a group of Indigenous academic, community, and education leaders. Over three phases, the...

This five-year, $280,952 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and assessment of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) using digitized natural history collection data across four institutions. Faculty from George Washington University, Widener University, Texas Tech University, and Westfield State University will collaborate to measure the impacts of these CUREs on student learning and science...