This $381,176 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the establishment of Networked Improvement Communities (NICs) to enhance graduate teaching assistant (GTA) teaching professional development in STEM disciplines at the University of South Carolina and Bowling Green State University.
The key objectives are to: (1) construct a network of peer-mentoring GTA teaching professional development programs across STEM...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,572 Project Grant to the University of Connecticut under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop video-based professional development materials for graduate teaching assistants in chemistry courses. The project aims to improve accessibility and inclusion for undergraduate students with disabilities through training GTAs in Universal Design for Learning principles. Over a three-year period from February 2023 to January 2026, the...
This $516,971 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports Bowling Green State University in recruiting, preparing, and supporting STEM professionals to become secondary STEM teachers in high-need school districts in Ohio over a four-year period. The project aims to increase the number of qualified STEM teachers serving in the region's high-need school districts by recruiting 32 STEM professionals and providing them with an...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded through the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $275,484 to North Carolina State University to design and implement a set of four professional development modules for statistics graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). The key objectives are to support GTAs in learning to teach introductory statistics courses more equitably using authentic data. Through a design and development research approach, the project will:
Design...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the understanding of departmental change efforts that can transform undergraduate STEM education. The $136,024 award to National Louis University, in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, and Western Michigan University, will conduct a two-pronged project: (1) a landscape study on methods for supporting STEM departmental...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $350,212 to Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) to examine the pedagogical beliefs and skills of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) who instruct undergraduate calculus courses. The two-year project aims to identify GTAs' understandings of key calculus concepts, strategies for supporting student learning, and responsiveness to student thinking. GTAs will serve as...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $124,354 to Michigan State University from July 2023 to June 2026. The project aims to design and implement a set of four research-informed professional development modules for statistics graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) to learn how to teach introductory statistics courses equitably using authentic data. Key modules focus on areas like teaching statistical thinking, facilitating...
This National Science Foundation STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant, awarded to Middle Tennessee State University for $1,199,915 starting on July 1, 2024, aims to improve the culture of teaching in STEM departments within higher education institutions. The project will provide a two-year professional development experience for approximately 50 STEM faculty to support the adoption of effective, inclusive instructional techniques. The project will study the impact of this professional...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program award to the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will test strategies for improving outcomes for all graduate students, particularly those underrepresented in STEM doctoral programs. The $999,699 project will be conducted from October 2024 to September 2028 and seeks to validate and scale an institutional approach developed at the University of California, Berkeley that links program structure to positive...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $118,728 Project Grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Northern Iowa (UNI) to investigate the impact of video-based analysis of classroom teaching on STEM teacher preparation, effectiveness, and retention. The project aims to engage approximately 200 future and current STEM teachers across seven geographically diverse institutions in video-based analysis activities as part of their teacher preparation programs...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $390,973 provides funding to Bowling Green State University (BGSU) and the University of South Carolina to establish networked improvement communities (NICs) of STEM graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) and faculty who provide GTA teaching professional development. The goal is to create a peer-mentoring program that helps GTAs implement evidence-based active learning strategies in undergraduate STEM courses. The project will adapt and evaluate the peer-mentoring program across multiple STEM disciplines over a 5-year period from May 2025 to April 2030. The research aims to understand how the GTA NIC and faculty provider NIC develop and measure the effectiveness of GTA instruction through the peer-mentoring approach.