The Pennsylvania State University received a $285,813 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education on October 1, 2021 to develop products and services aimed at breaking language barriers in chemistry assessment. Funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the BCSER project will work to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise by developing tools and resources to assess...
This federal Project Grant award of $331,452, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to identify essential competencies for data science literacy and how undergraduate students learn these fundamentals in introductory data science courses. The project, titled "MCA: CULTIVATING A LEADER IN STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS," will investigate pedagogical choices and learning pathways to...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076), provides $549,274 to Penn State University from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The funding supports further development of an open educational software resource and research into improving conceptual understanding for architectural engineering students. Specifically, the project will develop writing exercises within the software that...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $286,185 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the Cultivating Innovative Thinking Skills in STEM Education project. The three-year project beginning in October 2021 aims to develop innovative thinking skills in undergraduate STEM education through curriculum enhancement and faculty professional development at Penn State's Reading campus. The STEM Education program seeks to ensure the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, will develop adaptable, game-based interactive learning environments to improve STEM education and learning outcomes. The primary goals are to automatically customize 3D simulated game-based learning environments to enhance learner engagement and understanding, and assess their effectiveness for...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $749,991 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The Leveraging Innovation and Optimizing Nurturing in STEM: The LION STEM Scholars Program will provide $749,991 in funding from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2027 to support the development of programs that ensure the vitality of the nation's...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $312,568 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will support the development of a framework for attributable cybersecurity case studies from May 1, 2021 through April 30, 2023. The STEM Education program aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology,...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $3 million project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 1, 2021. The five-year grant will support the Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan project to transform training and advance human-technology interaction through research on linguistic diversity. As part of the NSF's mission to ensure the vitality of the nation's STEM education...
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...
The National Science Foundation awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University a $400,000 Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop and deliver a Targeted Infusion Project infusing data-centered pedagogy and data-analytical skills into introductory statistics courses. The University will integrate data-focused experiential learning activities and assignments into undergraduate statistics courses from July 2021 through June 2024. The STEM...