nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation funded a 22-page “study” that used Critical Race Theory to argue that physics was r****t, in part because it rewards students for getting the right answer and uses whiteboards. The paper was funded through National Science Foundation Grant No. 1760761, which gave $500,000 to Seattle Pacific University for “understanding centrality and marginalization in undergraduate physics teaching and learning.”

Who are we as a nation becoming? I***ts????

David L Loc: Central Wisconsin

In a word, yes. More than enough idiocy to go around

Big Kahuna

The NSF gave me my requested grant of $1.00 to study the "stupidity and caveman mentality" of grant's given to any university that would publish any such trash that universities like Seattle Pacific would put out. My 1 page coherent paper included the "decentralization of multi-faceted incursions of cognitive upper motor neurons and the central nervous system in primates who regurgitate such bull s**t."

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Fascinating!! And well done, I might add!

Wonttakeitanymore

That was some thesis thinking! U get it!!!!

elledee

How bout the grant ovomit and d******c t*******t Bill Ayers got to improve the Chicago gov. schools, you know the worst ones in the country.

Kevyn

A study to determine why more minorities are not enrolled in physics programs giving research universities the tools they need to address the issue. The US is falling behind in STEM education and encouraging a more diverse group of students to consider fields like physics will go along way to fill the gap.



Award Abstract # 1760761
Understanding Centrality and Marginalization in Undergraduate Physics Teaching and Learning to Enhance Student Persistence and Success

NSF Org: HRD
Division Of Human Resource Development
Awardee: SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: June 4, 2018
Latest Amendment Date: July 30, 2022
Award Number: 1760761
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Jessie Dearo
jdearo@nsf.gov (703)292-5350
HRD Division Of Human Resource Development
EHR Direct For Education and Human Resources
Start Date: July 1, 2018
End Date: May 31, 2023 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $495,847.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $513,283.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2018 = $495,847.00
FY 2022 = $17,436.00
History of Investigator:
Amy Robertson (Principal Investigator)
robertsona2@spu.edu
Tali Hairston (Co-Principal Investigator)
Rachel Scherr (Former Principal Investigator)
Amy Robertson (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Awardee Sponsored Research Office: Seattle Pacific University
3307 3RD AVE W
SEATTLE
WA US 98119-1940
(206)281-2174
Sponsor Congressional District: 07
Primary Place of Performance: Seattle Pacific University
3307 Third Avenue West, Seattle
Seattle
WA US 98119-1997
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District: 07
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): ZGJNCLDUKDR3
Parent UEI: ZGJNCLDUKDR3
NSF Program(s): ECR-EHR Core Research
Primary Program Source:
040106 NSF Education & Human Resource
Program Reference Code(s): 1544, 8212, 8816
Program Element Code(s): 7980
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.076

ABSTRACT

This ECR project will explore the extent to which educational strategies, tools, and materials in undergraduate physics classrooms and laboratory sessions center some students and marginalize others. This project will identify teaching strategies, tools, and materials that communicate who is welcome, important, and influential in physics and what characteristics are valued and necessary for success in physics. The ways that undergraduate physics is taught may lead to reduced persistence and interest of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities in physics, which is important because diversity in the STEM workforce at all levels has been shown to benefit the outcomes of scientific research. Physics has among the lowest representation of women and people of color of all the sciences compared to the total population in the country as well as the population enrolled in higher education. African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans collectively earn only 11% of undergraduate physics degrees in the US and only 6% of doctoral degrees, and women earn about 19% of degrees at both levels.

This project will contribute to the ECR focus areas of STEM learning environments and broadening participation in STEM. The aim of this project is to develop a knowledge base that could lead to awareness of how power relations may be embedded in the way physics is taught and learned. Data for this project will include video of undergraduate physics classes, reflective interviews with physics instructors and learners, and instructional artifacts. Methods will include empirical observations of who is centralized (or marginalized) and how they are made central (or marginal) in instructional settings, using Situated Learning Theory (SLT) methodology and Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS). This project will draw on CWS perspectives to show how privilege operates in undergraduate physics teaching and learning. SLT offers a vision of power relations, in which power is indicated by centrality and learning is a process of STEM identity development that moves learners from peripheral to central participation in learning environments.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Go ahead , keep letting Huckabee print your school books.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

You can research out your wazoo but until you address the decline in k-12 education and the deleterious effects of our deteriorating culture upon it, the decline will continue. Our nation has lost its focus and is becoming more and more immoral. We talk more about g****r confusion than about basic science, math, history and communications. Just look around. The nations who are passing us by have stable and consistent cultures/beliefs. They have discipline. They are motivated to improve. That is disappearing in the USA, I am sorry to say. All you have to do is look around.

Increasing the number of people in the field is not going to close the gap.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Assuming you are referring to the teaching of creation in schools, we might have common ground in that regard.

American Vet

This ECR project will explore the extent to which educational strategies, tools, and materials in undergraduate physics classrooms and laboratory sessions center some students and marginalize others.

Yep - a r****t premise.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Yes, it is r****t and marginalizing to have one answer to mathematical problems.

Big Kahuna

Yes, I can confuse the masses with big words just like our scientists, politicians and left wing bulls**tting university professors.

Big Kahuna

So in fact all my wrong answers in my Engineering studies were actually right and I deserve to be a Magna Cum Laude grad?. I can see now that a lot of our high rise buildings won't be standing long. Maybe slo joe can also forgive my college grades and raise them to all A's. Next on my list is r********ns to me for all the pain and suffering I accumulated from beautiful co-eds refusing my advances. That pain persists to this day and I deserve $$$$ millions from the University, the co-eds and Slo joe for not addressing this issue in a timely manner.

Big Kahuna

And those $$$billions in grants served to make the dumb even dumber.