Project Grant AH27400920

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $706,588 Project Grant on October 1, 2024 to College Unbound under the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence—Teacher Preparation and Development program (CFDA 84.428). This grant will fund the establishment of the Transformative Educator Pathways' Center of Excellence (TEP-CE), which will create a center of excellence for delivering equitable teacher preparation programs through multiple certification pathways....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program, provides $418,180 to The University of North Carolina at Charlotte to deliver collaborative research and student support services from July 2022 to June 2025. The award aims to improve outcomes for 1,900+ African American men in entry-level mathematics courses at four North Carolina institutions through culturally relevant advising, mentoring,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) project grant award of $365,905 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) aims to enhance the CASELET tool, a scalable case-based learning platform, to improve data science problem-solving competency among graduate students. The project will augment CASELET with new features, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and data analytics to scale up the...

The University of Texas at San Antonio received a $486,291 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to support improving college algebra teaching and student outcomes. The award, issued on October 15, 2021, will fund work through September 30, 2024 to develop and implement strategies for enhancing college instructors' ability to effectively...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $644,957 to Purdue University to design and implement a novel STEM education curriculum focused on developing secondary students' abilities to reason through ambiguous and ethical challenges through engineering design projects. The curriculum is aligned with the principles of socially transformative engineering and aims to empower youth, particularly students of color, as transformative agents...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $399,680 project grant to Auburn University to implement an evidence-based active learning program in calculus courses. The project, titled "Building a Calculus Active Learning Environment Equally Beneficial Across a Diverse Student Population," aims to establish "MERIT" recitation sections where students collaborate in groups on challenging tasks with highly-trained facilitators. The...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) aims to redesign an introductory computer science (CS1) course to teach programming with the aid of large language model (LLM) AI assistants. The key goals are to: 1) Redesign the CS1 course to emphasize skills like code reading, testing, and problem decomposition rather than just syntax and writing code from scratch; 2) Study how...

This $211,477 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development and implementation of introductory geoscience lessons at Boise State University to quantify the relationship between student learning outcomes, affect, and levels of instructional reform. The grant aims to design lessons classified as teacher-centered, transitional/interactive lecture, and student-centered using the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol and Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM....

This $1.97 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research and activities to improve student success in gateway mathematics courses at community colleges. The University of California Irvine leads a research partnership with the Virginia Community College System and University of Delaware to study Virginia's comprehensive reform initiative for underprepared students. This includes identifying students needing support,...

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...