Project Grant 2415197

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $399,853 to Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIU) to develop a conceptual framework and measurement tool for examining diverse student perceptions and valuation of flipped instruction in undergraduate gateway chemistry courses. The project aims to advance understanding of how historically marginalized student groups engage with and benefit from the increasingly popular flipped instructional approach in these foundational chemistry courses. Through a sequential exploratory mixed methods study, the project will generate essential design principles for effective and inclusive flipped chemistry instruction and create a corresponding psychometric instrument. The project also plans to provide training for instructors and researchers to adopt these design principles in their local undergraduate chemistry courses. The work is intentionally designed to proactively include historically marginalized student groups in all phases of the project, with the goal of identifying and amplifying high-impact flipped instruction practices for diverse learners in these critical gateway STEM courses.