Funded Grants

Collaborative Research: Extending A Coherent Gateway to STEM Teaching and Learning

National Science Foundation

$1,323,499

09/01/17 - 08/31/22

Senior Personnel

Collaborative Research: Learning Progressions on the Development of Principle-based Reasoning in Undergraduate Physiology(LeaPUP)

National Science Foundation

$497,846

07/15/17 - 07/14/20

co-PI

Supporting Excellent Engineers (SEE)

National Science Foundation

$1,000,000

02/1/17 - 1/31/22

co-PI

Collaborative Research: ArguLex - Applying Automated Analysis to a Learning Progression for Argumentation

National Science Foundation

$450,000

09/1/16 - 8/31/19

PI

Launching, Accelerating, and Multiplying STEM Students for Michigan: The Michigan State University STEM Success Program

Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation

$5,000,000

10/1/14 - 10/31/17

co-PI

Collaborative Research: PCK*Lex: Applying Computerized Lexical Analysis to Develop a Cost-Effective Measure of Science Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge

National Science Foundation

$266,667

10/1/14 - 9/30/18

PI

LEVERS: Leveraging Engagement and Vision to Encourage Retention in STEM

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

$1,500,000

6/1/14 - 5/31/19

co-PI

Collaborative Research: Expanding a National Network for Automated Analysis of Constructed Response Assessments to Reveal Student Thinking in STEM

National Science Foundation

$4,999,708

9/15/13 - 9/14/18

PI

Collaborative Research: A Community of Enhanced Assessment Facilitates Reformed Teaching

National Science Foundation

$718,470

9/15/13 - 9/14/18

co-PI

Collaborative Research: Automated Analysis of Constructed Response Concept Inventories to Reveal Student Thinking: Forging a National Network for Innovative Assessment Methods - Supplemental

National Science Foundation

$75,974

08/11/11 - 08/31/14

PI

Collaborative Research: Automated Analysis of Constructed Response Concept Inventories to Reveal Student Thinking: Forging a National Network for Innovative Assessment Methods

National Science Foundation

$382,601

09/01/10 - 08/31/14

PI

Collaborative Research: Building Global Climate Change Literacy through Analogical Reasoning

National Science Foundation

$93,850

07/01/10 - 06/30/13

co-PI

CPATH-2: CPACE II: Implementing Constituency-driven Curricular Change that Integrates Computational Thinking Across Engineering Disciplines

National Science Foundation

$799,796

09/15/09 - 09/14/14

co-PI

Simplifying complexity: Analyzing students' models of biological systems

National Science Foundation

$533,261

09/15/09 - 09/14/14

co-PI

Analyzing Constructed Responses: Using Linguistic Software to Understand Students' Conceptions in Science

National Science Foundation

$150,000

08/01/08 - 07/31/11

PI

EEES: Engaging Early Engineering Students to Expand Numbers of Degree Recipients

National Science Foundation

$2,499,907

07/01/08 - 06/30/14

co-PI

A Framework For Reasoning In Cell Biology Courses

National Science Foundation

$200,000

01/01/08 - 12/31/09

Senior Personnel

Reforming Introductory Biology at MSU: Does it Make a Difference?

National Science Foundation

$150,000

01/01/08 - 12/31/09

Senior Personnel

CPATH CB: Computing and Undergraduate Engineering: A Collaborative Process to Align Computing Education with Engineering Workforce Needs

National Science Foundation

$449,859

09/01/07- 08/31/10

co-PI

FIRST III - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching: Developing the Scholars

National Science Foundation

$418,984

01/01/07 - 12/31/10

co-PI

Problem-Based Learning Designed Science and Mathematics Professional Development

National Science Foundation

$4,605,130

06/01/04 - 05/31/09

Senior personnel

Development and Design of Structural Elements for a Web-based Course in Animal Welfare

USDA

$191,660

08/01/04 - 02/01/06

Senior personnel

Evaluation of Michigan 's Freedom To Learn program

Michigan Virtual University

$145,000

10/01/03 - 12/31/04

co-PI

Teachers as Designers: A Problem-Based Approach to Preparing Teachers

U.S. Department of Education

$1,575,435

10/01/03 - 09/30/06

co-PI

Promoting Rigorous Outcomes in Mathematics/Science Education (PROM/SE)

National Science Foundation

$35,000,000

10/01/03 - 09/30/08

Senior personnel

Diagnostic Question Clusters: Development and Testing in Introductory Geology and Biology

National Science Foundation

$491,606

9/15/03 - 8/14/08

Senior Personnel

Evaluation of Michigan 's Learning Without Limits program

Michigan Virtual University

$75,000

03/06/03 - 09/30/03

co-PI