Grants in Higher Education
TEAGLE FOUNDATION GRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
FRESH THINKING COLLEGIA ON STUDENT LEARNING
RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
Click here for Collegia from consortia of liberal arts colleges.
May 2008
Brown University, Connecticut College, Rhode Island Schools of Design, and Wellesley College
Using cognitive principles to enhance graduate and undergraduate learning in independent research projects
Project Leader: Kathy Spoehr
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$112,344 over 36 months to explore the ways in which insights from cognitive science about how students learn can be used to enhance the effectiveness of independent research project expriences at undergraduate and graduate levels. |
Collegium on student learning
Project Leader: Steven Mintz
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$149,990 over 36 months to test the applicability of recent developments in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and educational assessment in enhancing course design, teaching methods, and evaluation of student learning. |
Collegium on inquiry in action | Project Website
Project Leader: Jennifer Meta Robinson
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$150,000 over 39 months to develop a model interdisciplinary approach that prepares graduate students to be reflective practitioners who base their teaching on appropriate learning theory and revise it based on evidence of student learning. |
Collegium on student learning
Project Leader: Jessica Logan
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$149,997 over 36 months to enhance student learning and long-term retention by implementing teaching practices based on empirical findings from the psychology and neuroscience of memory, and drawing on the expertise of faculty and administrators committed to developing scientifically-motivated curriculum changes on their campuses. |
A teacher's collegium to design, implement, evaluate, and revise teaching innovations to improve students learning
Project Leader: Linda Jarvin
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$149,844 over 36 months to learn about empirically validated best teaching practices and design course-based curriculum interventions grounded in research on how students learn, to implement these interventions in the classroom, and to assess their impact on student learning. |
Distinctions, intersections, and collaborations: An interdisciplinary collegium on applying the science of learning
Project Leader: Crisca Bierwert
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$149,600 over 36 months to explore, respond to, and use recent research on student learning and assessment to improve the way faculty teach and the way their students learn. Special emphasis will be placed on the multicultural elements of the teaching and learning experience. Click here for an annotated bibliography on the "science of learning" (PDF, 127 KB). |
Collegium on student learning
Project Leader: Michael Holquist
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$149,991 over 36 months to examine reading difficulties among late adolescents from a range of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and to assess the impact of reading on the many other aptitudes required for a liberal education. |
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