Title:
Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement
Funding Source:
National Science Foundation
Scope:
The goals of this program reflect national concerns about producing skilled STEM professionals (including K-12 teachers) and citizens knowledgeable about STEM and how it relates to their lives. The program seeks to build on the community of faculty committed to improving undergraduate STEM education.
All proposals must contribute to the development of exemplary undergraduate STEM untested, forward-looking, and unconventional activities that could have a high impact and contribute to transforming undergraduate Stem education.
Areas:
Creating Learning Materials and Strategies: Projects developing new learning materials and strategies for improving courses, curriculum, and laboratories should be guided by research on teaching and learning and should incorporate and be inspired by advances within the disciplines.
Implementing New Instructional Strategies: To ensure their broad based adoption, successful instructional strategies should be widely practiced. Therefore, CCLI welcomes proposals to change undergraduate STEM courses, curricula and laboratories by implementing strategies to reflect proven or promising pedagogical techniques in ways that encourage widespread adoption.
Developing Faculty Expertise: Using new learning materials and teaching strategies often requires faculty to acquire new knowledge and skills in order to revise their curricula and teaching practices. Projects focused on developing faculty expertise can range from short-term workshops to sustained activities.
Assessing and Evaluating Student Achievement: Proposals for designing processes and instruments to measure the effectiveness of new materials and instructional methods are responsive to this solicitation.
Conducting Research on Undergraduate STEM Education: Results from assessments of learning and teaching as well as from projects emphasizing other programmatic components provide a foundation for developing new and revised models of how undergraduate STEM students learn.
Funds:
Type 1 Projects – 70 to 75 awards expected, each with a duration of 2 to 3 years and a total budget up to $200,000 ($250,000 when four-year colleges and universities collaborate with two-year colleges).
· Type 2 Projects – 20 to 25 awards expected, each with a duration of 2 to 4 years and budget that fits the scope of the project. It is expected that the total budget for the majority of awards will be $300,000 to $600,000.
· Type 3 Projects – 3 to 5 awards expected, each with duration of 3 to 5 years and a budget that fits the scope of the project. It is expected that the total budget for the majority of these awards will be $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.
For collaborative projects, these limits apply to the total project budget.
Deadline:
May 21st, 2009 for Type 1 proposals
January 13th, 2010 for Type 2 and 3 proposals
Before your grant proposal is submitted, the district grants office will be available to review your application, answer any questions, and help you with technical difficulties. Please contact us after reviewing the guidelines if you are planning on submitting this grant.
Please note: Dr. Harper-Marinick is required to review all outgoing proposals as well as the district grants office and your campus president. The district grants interest packet contains grant related information, and includes procedures. |
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