The Center sponsors various funded and non-funded opportunities to support faculty, post-doc fellows, instructional staff, and graduate students to conduct research projects that evaluate evidence-based learning through performance outcomes. These projects might include pre- and posttest, portfolio evaluation, and longitudinal tracking of student achievement. Successful proposals provide clear evidence of instructional practices that encourage active learning.  For additional information about Center-funded projects, please refer to our Grants and Fellowships page or contact us at crte@ucmerced.edu.

Mini-Grant Faculty Projects

• "Teaching Silk Road History with Google Earth" by Ruth Mostern
  

Faculty Seminar Series with Certificate Projects

• "Teaching in the Post-Doctoral Career" - Jesus Ciriza, Post-Doctoral Fellow, World Cultures
  
• "Best-practices for a Productive Relationship between TAs and their IOR" - Catherine Gilbert, Lecturer, NS
• "Self-Assessment of Graduate Student Professional Development" - Christopher Viney, Professor, ENG
• "A Personal Perspective Advice for the Apprentice Scholar" - Jennifer Lu, Assistant Professor, ENG 
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• Graduate Projects*
  

• eScholarship CRTE Guidebook Project (all FIPSE-funded publications can be found here)
  

  "Active Learning Activities" (video presentation) featuring Debra Conte and Korana Burke

*Thanks to a two-year Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant, the Center funded graduate students to participate in learning communities for academic years 2010-11 and 2011-12.  Graduate fellows conducted classroom research and publish their findings in our guidebook project paper series, focused on the needs of first-generation college students.  Graduate students were paired with a Senate or Non-Senate faculty mentor.  If you have any questions about the FIPSE Guidebook Project, please contact Anne Zanzucchi, the project coordinator (azanzucchi@ucmerced.edu or 209-228-4173).