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 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...
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 Project Grant award of $298,375.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to design and implement an artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented formative assessment and feedback system. The system will support the development of STEM text summarization and problem-solving skills among students in large, introductory undergraduate physics courses at an urban university serving diverse and underrepresented student...
This $635,513 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to enhance conceptual learning in quantum and semiconductor physics through the development and assessment of interactive visualization and simulation tools. The project, led by Purdue University, will conduct large-scale investigations to determine how such educational tools can improve undergraduate students' understanding of these topics across diverse educational environments....
This $158,416 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an adaptive online assessment platform to improve introductory physics instruction. Awarded under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the funding enables investigators at Iowa State University and Purdue University to create diagnostic tools that provide individualized feedback to help students succeed in high-enrollment physics courses. Specifically, 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...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $349,999 to Purdue University to support research on undergraduate student experiences with intercultural team cognition in computational fields. The three-year award beginning in October 2022 aims to examine how students experience working on intercultural teams to solve computational challenges. It will also further develop the principal investigator's...
The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $599,980 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) for a three-year period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024. The grant funds the Expanding Accessibility of Learning Through Blended Synchronous Instruction of Face-to-Face and Remote Students project. This project aims to develop innovative instructional methods that blend synchronous face-to-face and remote learning to expand accessibility of STEM education. As the...
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...