Project Grant P031A230037

This $139,666 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Undergraduate Education will fund the development of artificial intelligence-enhanced personalized adaptive learning tools to improve programming skills among engineering students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Under the grant program's Engaged Student Learning track, the awardee, Alabama A&M University, will create online learning modules, recommend personalized adaptive learning paths using...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program award in the amount of $499,969 supports the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in implementing and evaluating a comprehensive program called "Enhancing and Expanding Second-Year Experience (EESYE)" for engineering and computer science students. The project aims to reduce attrition and improve retention and graduation rates, particularly among Hispanic and...

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...

The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded Bakersfield Auxiliary For Sponsored Programs Administration California State University a $1,253,296 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program. The grant will support the Pathways of Possibilities for Transforming Higher Education Curriculum Alignment Program (POP THE CAP) from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026. The FIPSE program aims to support institutional...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $160,000 to Prairie View A&M University to develop online artificial intelligence-enhanced personalized adaptive learning tools. The tools aim to improve engineering students' programming skills at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Specifically, the University will create a series of online programming modules, use deep reinforcement learning...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of online learning modules to improve retention of STEM students at the City University of New York. Led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York in partnership with the university system, the three-year project aims to design, implement, and refine eight modules focused on building students' sense of belonging and self-regulated learning skills. The modules will be piloted in two required civil...

This $234,004 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and development activities aimed at improving STEM education outcomes for underrepresented groups. Specifically, the grant funds a collaborative project between four North Carolina universities to investigate strategies for increasing the success, confidence, and sense of belonging of 1,900 African American men in entry-level mathematics courses. The project will evaluate the impact of improved placement procedures...

This three-year, $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development and evaluation of peer-led learning activities and a training curriculum to support non-traditional students in online engineering courses at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Through the introduction of peer leaders and synchronous recitation sessions, the awardee aims to provide additional academic and social support to help improve persistence and...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded a $5,343,903 Project Grant under the Education Innovation and Research (EIR) program to The Johns Hopkins University on January 1, 2025. The grant supports the "ENABLING STUDENT SUCCESS: COMBINING EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS AND SCHOOL CONNECTEDNESS TO PROPEL SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT AMONG BALTIMORE CITY STUDENTS" project, which aims to develop and implement innovative educational...

This five-year, $1,014,803 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance the use of computer adaptive testing and assessment development for mathematics instruction. The key products and services delivered under this award include: Benchmarking previously established grades 6-8 problem-solving measures, developing and validating criterion-referenced computer adaptive testing for these measures, and constructing student-...