Project Grant P031A210206

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Higher Education Institutional Aid program (CFDA 84.031) will enable EDP University of Puerto Rico, Inc., a private non-profit Hispanic-Serving Institution, to virtualize academic programs and develop online support services to enhance Hispanic student success. The funding will support initiatives to expand educational opportunities, improve academic offerings, and increase...

This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...

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 College of Charleston received a $299,680 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education on October 1, 2021 to develop and evaluate an expanded digital course-based undergraduate research experience through September 30, 2024. The grant funds the EXPANDING SCIENTIFIC OPPORTUNITY WITH A DIGITAL COURSE BASED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE project under the NSF's STEM Education program (formerly the Education and Human Resources program). This...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education, under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), provides $165,933 to develop and evaluate two online modules integrating growth mindset and effective learning strategies interventions for introductory and general chemistry courses. The University Corporation will create interactive videos and reflective writing activities to teach growth mindset and effective learning strategies explicitly within the...

This five-year, $1,049,958 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI) at Carnegie Mellon University. EASI aims to lower barriers for conducting randomized experiments comparing alternative digital learning experiences and analyzing resulting data to rapidly improve educational resources. Specifically, the infrastructure will support 1) design of...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under the Education Research, Development and Dissemination program (CFDA 84.305) will provide $191,654.00 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR) to study the academic outcomes and experiences of digital and on-campus immersion students. The project, titled "The Educational Divide: Transition, Retention, and Course Selection in Digital and On-Campus Immersion Students," will run...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) for $199,299 provides funding to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to develop and evaluate novel AI-based methods for student modeling and tailored large language models (LLMs) to enhance personalized learning in computer science education. The key objectives are to: (1) integrate...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $133,617 to Temple University to address preparation gaps and promote culturally relevant teaching to support diverse groups in computing courses. The university will expand its Bridges system of learning materials to better serve underrepresented student populations in foundational data structures and algorithms courses. Key products and services include...