Project Grant 2524321
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $344,869 to Tufts University to develop and implement professional development for Learning Assistants (LAs) to improve their facilitation of student learning in active learning STEM courses. The key objectives are to design and implement a new LA pedagogy course sequence based on recent research (Goal 1) and investigate how this pedagogy sequence impacts LA facilitation...
- 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,...
- The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania, located in Bloomsburg, PA, to improve student success in first-year STEM courses. The project aims to implement two proven approaches - the co-requisite model and the Learning Assistant (LA) model - to increase college completion and retention, particularly for disadvantaged students, in STEM degree programs. Through the co-requisite model, students with...
- This $441,059 award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance student success and persistence in STEM fields at Oakton Community College, a designated Hispanic Serving Institution. Over 3 years, the project will create a leadership development program for STEM Learning Assistants (LAs) and an expanded emerging leaders training program. The LA program will provide mentorship and pedagogical training to up to 60 LAs who will support active learning...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $400,000 over two years to Family Health International (FHI 360) to synthesize and evaluate the use of active learning strategies in undergraduate STEM education. The project aims to identify and describe the full range of active learning strategies and instructional tactics across STEM disciplines and institution types. By providing context-specific guidance on effective active learning...
- This $498,212 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to improve the classroom experience and academic success of undergraduate students in introductory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. The award will fund a 3-year implementation and evaluation project at the University of Arizona, a prominent Hispanic-Serving research institution, to train 50 graduate teaching assistants in student-centered,...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $1,389,237 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to investigate how informal STEM educators in settings like museums, libraries, and community organizations negotiate, redesign, and repair organizational and community infrastructures to support innovations in learning with computing. The research focuses on understanding the supports that informal STEM and computing...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to support faculty and student learning of equity-minded and student-centered pedagogy through iterative curricular co-design. The $399,896 award to the CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, a non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a professional development model that provides STEM faculty the knowledge, time, and support to design instructional innovations...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to advance understanding of the central role that academic departments play in transforming undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The $176,893 award to the University of Colorado Boulder will conduct a landscape study on effective departmental change strategies and establish an inclusive community network to share best practices. The...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to develop and document more effective ways to disseminate research-informed STEM education programs and practices at the University of Colorado-Denver. The $500,000 award will fund two key initiatives over a 3-year period from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2028: Expansion of the Learning Assistants (LA) program to additional STEM courses with high DFW (D, F, or Withdrawal) rates, adapting the program to address challenges engineering students face. Expansion and customization of the Faculty Pedagogy Academy to enable 15 engineering instructors across 5 departments to incorporate active learning strategies proven to boost student comprehension and grades in STEM courses. The project aims to generate and disseminate knowledge from these scaling and adaptation efforts to support broader adoption of effective STEM education practices and improve student success, contributing to a larger, more proficient STEM workforce.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $500.0k | 9/7/25 |