Purdue University was awarded a $295,816 project grant from the National Science Foundation under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the TRANSFORMING UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING TO ENHANCE INNOVATION FOR A CHANGING WORLD project. The two-year project, awarded January 15, 2021 and set to be completed by December 31, 2023, will develop and evaluate new approaches to integrate innovation and design thinking into undergraduate STEM courses to better prepare students for an...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $796,858 to Purdue University, a public land-grant research university, will support the development of an innovative learner-in-the-loop multi-robot system called LILMR to transform conventional in-person field-based lab environments into hybrid-flexible (hyflex) field-based lab environments. This system aims to enable remote and residential students to collaboratively develop critical...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $325,009 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to characterize how teachers design engaging learning environments in STEM education. The grant will fund research from September 2021 to August 2023 examining teachers' and students' conceptualizations of integrated STEM. As part of the NSF's efforts to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, this project aims to provide insights into effective...
Purdue University was awarded a $210,311 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant funds a collaborative research project titled "Rethinking Circle Time: Integrating Computational Thinking into K-2 Literacy." As part of its mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education enterprise, the NSF STEM Education program supports the development of innovative...
Purdue University received a $399,999 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the STEM Education (47.076) program to foster culturally relevant programming learning experiences through learner-sourced contextualized worked examples. The three-year award running from June 2023 to May 2026 aims to engage and improve learning outcomes for female computing students by developing customized activities incorporating feminist pedagogy and learner contributions. Purdue will study the...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $1,566,948 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the "Grappling With Graphs: New Tools For Improving Graphing Practices Of Undergraduate Biology Students" project from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2025. The grant aims to develop new tools to improve undergraduate biology students' skills in graphing, a practice critical to data analysis in STEM fields. Purdue will collaborate with California...
Purdue University received a $499,815 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The award supports research to develop an automated system using natural language processing to provide personalized formative feedback to undergraduate physics students on their problem-solving strategies. The project aims to determine the accuracy of machine learning algorithms in scoring student essays on their...
This $399,186 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to establish best practices for blended online and face-to-face learning in undergraduate STEM courses. The project at Michigan State University will isolate the design features of blended courses that impact student learning outcomes, particularly for historically marginalized groups. Key focus areas include evaluating the effects of geographical flexibility,...
Purdue University was awarded a $746,412 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings to develop co-robots to enhance motivation and self-efficacy in formal STEM education. The grant falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Purdue University will...
Purdue University was awarded a $471,103 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for the period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The grant will support Purdue University's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: STRATEGIC COURSE-BASED ADAPTATIONS OF AN ECOLOGICAL BELONGING INTERVENTION TO BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN ENGINEERING AT SCALE" project. Specifically, the University will adapt and scale up an...