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TEAGLE FOUNDATION GRANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

FRESH THINKING COLLEGIA ON STUDENT LEARNING

RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

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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

 

 $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.
Columbia University
Collegium on student learning

 

 $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.
Indiana University
Collegium on inquiry in action

 

 $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.
Rice University and the University of Texas Medical Center
Collegium on student learning

 

 $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.
Tufts University
A teacher's collegium to design, implement, evaluate, and revise teaching innovations to improve students learning

 

 $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.
The University of Michigan
Distinctions, intersections, and collaborations: An interdisciplinary collegium on applying the science of learning

 

 $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.
Yale University and Haskins Laboratories
Collegium on student learning

 

 $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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