Grant Category: Level II

Swapnil Rai, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2020-2021 This project is an alternative assessment to my traditional written final exam. Its primary goal is developing critical thinking and engagement with the public and the industry and provide an opportunity for students to blend critical thinking with industry studies. It examines the presence and operations of…

Lisa Levinson, Linguistics | 2022-2023 This project aims to build tools and documentation for linguistics and similar fields where dynamic banks of qualitative questions might improve student learning outcomes by facilitating the creation of larger and rotating question sets. Especially for large courses, having a large set of possible assessment questions supports student learning by…

Qian Liu, Xiaoying Yu, Asian Languages and Cultures | 2022-2023 With the continuous growth of Chinese language education, students in our advanced-level classrooms have been showing increasing diversity in terms of their language proficiency, educational and cultural background and learning goals. This diversity not only brought new dynamics into the classroom, but also new challenges…

P. Gavin LaRose, Mathematics | 2022-2023 This proposal will allow the expansion of equity-focused assessment practices in our Introductory Program mathematics courses by providing bridge funding for student workers in a pilot proctored computer testing center on North Campus. Over the past three years the Department of Mathematics has been working with CRLT and the…

Said Hannouchi, Near Eastern Studies | 2022-2023 Please describe your grant project in a few sentences. (This information will be published in the Grant Gallery of the Technology Services website, if the grant is approved.) This project aims to develop a two-year Levantine Arabic curriculum for Arabic 425 and Arabic 426. Courses on Levantine Arabic…

Andy Noverr, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2020-2021 We are creating original materials (grammar explanations and homework activities) that will be added to the Spanish 232 Standard & 232 Topics curriculum. Eventually, these activities will be available online and replace a product currently provided by a publishing company that costs students between $109.99 – $135…

Ryan Szpiech, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2018-2019 Spanish 450: “Inventing Spanish. The Cultural World of Alfonso X” and other sections. Spanish is today one of the world’s most spoken languages, but in its early stages of development in the late Middle Ages, it was only one among various local dialects. How did this remarkable…

Matt Friedman, Earth and Environmental Sciences | 2018-2019 This proposal targets a pair of paleontology courses in the 2018-2019 academic year, although we anticipate that our work will impact paleontological learning throughout U-M (see faculty letters associated with this proposal). First, we will use EARTH 437 (Evolution of Vertebrates; F18), an upper-level course with lower…

Ryan Hendrickson, Romance Languages and Literatures | 2016-2017 Gameful learning is a pedagogical approach that takes inspiration from how well-designed games function, and applies those choices to course design. Gameful design operates in a self-deterministic framework–we want to apply what self-determination theory says about how intrinsic motivation works to build motivating classroom experiences. (http://gamefulpedagogy.com/what-is-gameful/) For…

LaKisha Simmons, History | 2018-2019 How do our family histories help us tell stories about who we are and where we have come from? Companies such as Ancestry.com promise to unlock personal pasts and make sense of our future through the use of genealogy and DNA testing. Television shows like Finding Your Roots and Who…