NSF grant to help improve student success in life sciences | WSU Insider
April 27, 2021 By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education A Washington State University research team has been awarded a three-year, $515,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to improve teacher ability to support student success across all life sciences. The team is led by assistant educational psychology professor Chad Gotch and is part of the NSF’s Discovery Research PreK-12 program, meant to support STEM education research and innovations. In this case, the research involves supporting students’ use of “crosscutting concepts,” or ideas that link the different domains of sci...