Project Grant 2514349
- This $544,703 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve students' teamwork and collaboration skills in the context of learning physics. The primary goal is to develop and test a classroom intervention using socio-metacognitive practices to support productive teamwork in three different physics courses at two universities - Western Washington University and California State University, Chico. The intervention consists of five...
- This $129,990 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve students' teamwork and collaboration skills in the context of learning physics. The project, awarded to Chico State Enterprises, will develop and test a classroom intervention using socio-metacognitive practices to support effective group work in physics courses at two institutions. The intervention includes activities like reading, case study analysis, team charters, and...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to investigate innovative strategies for effective teamwork in engineering education. The $373,576 award to Washington State University will implement and assess a teamwork intervention, and document its effects on student persistence in engineering. The project plans to conduct a nationwide survey and interviews with engineering faculty to understand their perceptions and experiences with...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 STEM Education) in the amount of $945,813 aims to enhance conceptual learning in quantum and semiconductor physics through the development and evaluation of interactive visualization and simulation tools. The project, which will be carried out by a consortium of researchers across five universities and colleges, will expand upon previously developed tools and conduct large-scale studies to determine their effectiveness in...
- This $213,393 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance science learning and collaboration for undergraduate students in biology and biochemistry. The project will use qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze how social metacognition, or the awareness and regulation of another's thinking, impacts collaboration in these science contexts. Key objectives are to characterize social metacognition and determine how...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $254,022.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Washington State University. The award will fund the development of a novel teaching and assessment approach for evaluating individual student contributions within team-based software development projects in undergraduate computing education. The project aims to create a framework that allows students to compile individual portfolios documenting their...
- This National Science Foundation STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award in the amount of $111,193 aims to improve teaching and learning in large introductory physics courses through the use of Learning Assistants (LAs). The project, which involves investigators at Seattle Pacific University, University of Washington Bothell, and Western Washington University, will develop a model for training LAs to effectively elicit and build on students' diverse science ideas. This approach,...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $155,257 will support the University of Washington's efforts to improve and broaden participation in undergraduate STEM education through faculty professional development workshops focused on student-centered pedagogical practices that foster diversity, equity and inclusion in physics and astronomy. Funded under the NSF's Institutional and Community Transformation track of the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), this May 1, 2022 through April...
- This $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support Texas State University in developing equitable group work strategies for proof-based undergraduate mathematics courses. Over a two-year period ending December 2025, the university will design and implement instructor workshops on incorporating group-worthy tasks adapted from K-12 complex instruction principles. It will also study the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $150,962 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to West Virginia University Research Corporation to develop new, improved assessment instruments focused on accurately and fairly measuring students' conceptual understanding in introductory physics courses. The project aims to replace legacy assessments like the Force Concept Inventory and the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation, addressing limitations around psychometric...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $303,700 to Western Washington University (WWU) aims to create a teaching tool to help students learn to work more effectively in teams in physics education. The project will develop a flexible set of lessons designed to improve students' socio-metacognition, which involves awareness of group thinking and dynamics. The tool will be tested and refined in partnership with instructors at multiple universities to reach approximately 480 future K-12 teachers, who can then pass on effective teamwork skills to their students. The research will use a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental design to examine the intervention's impacts on student collaboration, including case studies of students navigating group power dynamics. The PI will share the resulting tool and research through science teacher preparation networks to expand the project's reach to around 50 programs.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $303.7k | 7/31/25 |