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 $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...
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 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 $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...
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 $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 $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...
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...
This $1,188,628 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research and development efforts to enhance middle school students' learning of science and engineering content and practices. The project will co-design, implement, and refine two integrated STEM curriculum units with community-based service-learning projects focused on environmental justice. Nearly 2,000 students will participate, with a focus on increasing the...