Collaborative Noyce Track #4 (National Science Foundation)
Collaborative Research: Retention, Persistence, and Effectiveness of STEM Teachers in High-need School Districts-An Investigation of the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship
National Science Foundation(Award No. #1950292), Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, 2020-2024, $1,160,761
Core Research Team: Dr. Li Feng (PI and Project Director), Dr. Mike Hansen (PI at the Brookings Institution), Dr. David Kumar (PI at Florida Atlantic University)
Collaborators: Dr. Ann Cavallo and Dr. David Sparks (the University of Texas at Arlington), Dr. Hunter Close (Texas State University), Dr. John Pecore (the University of West Florida), Dr. Maria Fernandez (Florida International University)
Texas State University Research Team:
Project Manager/Team Lead: Dr. Jieon Shim
GIS Specialist/Doctoral Research Assistant: Xiu Wu
Undergraduate Research Assistant: Philip Ervin
Project Team Alumni:
Former Undergraduate Research Assistant: Richard Vega
This project involves three core research institutions (Texas State University, Florida Atlantic University, and The Brookings Institution) and four collaborating institutions with Noyce programs (Texas State University, the University of Texas at Arlington, University of West Florida, and Florida International University). The project will mine local and national databases for patterns that uncover the impact of Noyce projects on the supply of STEM teachers in the school districts they serve. The project seeks to raise awareness of challenges specific to STEM teachers in high-need settings, generate evidence-based policy solutions, and promote a better understanding of how Noyce projects influence the STEM teacher workforce. This Track 4: Noyce Research project is supported through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Noyce). The Noyce program supports talented STEM undergraduate majors and professionals to become effective K-12 STEM teachers and experienced, exemplary K-12 STEM teachers to become STEM master teachers in high-need school districts. It also supports research on the persistence, retention, and effectiveness of K-12 STEM teachers in high-need school districts.
STEM Communities (National Science Foundation)
Faculty-Student Communities for Improving STEM Instruction
National Science Foundation(Award No. #1928696) Creating Faculty-Student Communities for Culturally Relevant Institutional Change, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, 2019-2024, $2,499,933
Dr. Li Feng (co-PI) with Dr. Heather Galloway (PI), Dr. Eleanor Close(co-PI), Dr. Alice Omstead (co-PI), and Dr. Cynthia Luxford (co-PI)
Texas State University Research Team:
Project Manager/Team Lead: Dr. Jieon Shim
Data Lead/Graduate Research Assistant: Mariella van der Sluijs
Data Analyst/Graduate Research Assistant: Monica P. Arboleda Martinez
Project Team Alumni:
Graduate Research Assistant: Venkata Sowjanya Koka
Graduate Research Assistant: Babitha Govindaiah
Undergraduate Researcher: Daniel Payan
The Faculty-Student Communities Initiative is a comprehensive effort to support student-centered instructional change across the College of Science and Engineering at Texas State University. This five-year initiative is officially launching in 2020 and will consist of four programmatic components that provide STEM faculty and students with opportunities to engage in workshops, departmental self-assessments, redesign of lower-division gateway courses, and project-level decision making. Participating STEM departments will receive multifaceted intellectual, material, and logistical supports to empower faculty-student teams in developing sustainable communities focused on culturally relevant instruction. The initiative will also involve three research strands that focus on communities among faculty and students, STEM student trajectories at Texas State, and student graduation rates and STEM workforce outcomes for Texas State and other Hispanic Serving Institutions.
Find more info on our project site here.