The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,745 project grant under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Arizona State University (ASU) on September 1, 2024. The goal of this collaborative research project is to identify and understand pedagogical strategies that promote equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science classrooms. The research team will use an asset-based approach drawing upon students' cultural, behavioral, and...
This $188,167 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research to address racial inequities in STEM teacher preparation programs. The project is a collaborative effort led by Washington State University, which will: Identify community assets and systemic barriers to recruiting and supporting STEM teacher candidates from underrepresented populations; Develop strategies for preparing STEM teacher candidates to employ...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $280,806 will fund Vanderbilt University to deliver products and services aimed at improving equity in STEM education through 2026. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports development and implementation of promising STEM education practices, the university will pursue three specific aims. The first is to assess impacts of incorporating Learning Assistants on sense of belonging, self-efficacy, and identity across...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant, funded under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support research at the University of California, Santa Barbara to advance the cognitive science of active learning in STEM courses. Over a two-year period, the fellow will conduct three controlled experiments manipulating dosage schedules and order of active learning and lecture components. The research aims to pinpoint instructional features that maximize equity,...
This $741,554 federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a collaborative research project titled "A Student Asset-Based Approach to the Formation of Equitable Teams (SAFE Teams)." The goal is to identify and understand pedagogical strategies that promote equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science classrooms. The research team will use an asset-based...
This $712,744 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant supports a collaborative research project titled "A Student Asset-Based Approach to the Formation of Equitable Teams (SAFE Teams)" focused on promoting equity in team experiences for Black and Latinx students in engineering and computer science courses. The research team, which includes partners from the University of South Florida, Virginia...
This $559,342 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to foster a STEM + medicine learning ecosystem that brings together secondary teachers in historically under-resourced schools and local STEM professionals to co-design and allocate STEM-based resources for youth. The research team will employ an ethnographic design to understand how integrating STEM lessons in under-resourced schools can advance equitable learning...
This four-year, $2.27 million project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform STEM education for Latinx students at two-year Hispanic Serving Institutions. Led by Arizona State University, the grant will establish STEM planning teams as communities of practice at 16 institutions to conduct college-wide STEM assessments, develop multi-year STEM plans, and implement evidence-based solutions to close achievement gaps. Project...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $349,962 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), a Hispanic-Serving Institution, to build the principal investigator's expertise in STEM education research study design, research methods, and data analysis techniques. The project aims to support a pilot STEM education research project to investigate remedial math training for civil engineering undergraduate students, with...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $398,236 to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to create a sustainable, adaptable framework for fostering critical thinking and inspiring diverse learners in STEM fields. The project aims to promote sustained interest and critical statistical thinking across undergraduate STEM education by implementing a novel two-course cross-level structure that pairs advanced...