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