Project Grant R305L170006

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $200,000 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop adaptable, game-based interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals of the project are to: Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve learner engagement. Provide a deeper understanding of the design, development, and deployment of these learning environments,...

This $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of an AI-based learning support system to provide personalized educational content for large-scale university courses in sustainability science. The key components of the project include: Designing and evaluating a system to interview students about their backgrounds and transform this data into a knowledge graph representation to inform...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program award to the University of Pittsburgh will create and validate a Personalized Learning Model (PLM) for graduate STEM education. The $500,000 award, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026, aims to break the traditional "one-size-fits-all" approach to graduate STEM training by developing a model that addresses issues of inclusivity and removes barriers to participation by underrepresented...

This $149,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of adaptable, game-based, interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals are to: 1) Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve engagement; 2) Assess the effectiveness of these learning environments for diverse learner groups in online and in-person...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $809,155 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a game-based learning environment and conduct research and evaluation from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to improve probability education for high school students by designing artificial intelligence problem-solving activities within a game. Students will learn probability concepts while exploring AI algorithms...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $350,000 to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, will develop adaptable, game-based interactive learning environments to improve STEM education and learning outcomes. The primary goals are to automatically customize 3D simulated game-based learning environments to enhance learner engagement and understanding, and assess their effectiveness for...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Engineering Education and Centers provides $490,174 to Purdue University under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from September 2022 through August 2025. The funding will support research to develop and validate a new survey instrument to measure student engagement in team-based learning across academic disciplines, with a focus on identifying differences based on gender, race/ethnicity and other factors. Leveraging data...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Purdue University received a $788,393 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), effective September 1, 2025, through February 28, 2029. This collaborative research project will design and develop a suite of educational games targeting negative number and integer concepts for students in grades 2-4. The deliverables include game prototypes...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, provides $349,994 to Arizona State University to implement a research project and professional development plan aimed at empowering children of migratory and seasonal farmworkers through culturally responsive gamification and engineering design instruction. Specifically, the investigator will conduct a qualitative study using critical agency framework to collect...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $481,384 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to enhance the Peer+ tool, which supports peer instruction techniques in STEM courses. The project aims to evaluate the effects of three different peer discussion modes - text-chat during lectures, pseudo text-chat after lectures, and traditional in-person peer discussions - on learning outcomes and student satisfaction across...