ALSET Seed grant projects
ALSET supports promising proposals from NUS faculty that can lead to bigger Educational research.
Here is a list of the projects that have been supported so far:
Goal
Our goal is to provide teachers and students with a new tool that is engaging, promotes joyful learning, and is helpful for foreign language learning and mother tongue retention.
Investigator
WANG Ye (NUS Computing)
Implementation
Nov. 2017-Nov. 2018
Goal
This project intends to evaluate if social annotation foster higher levels of cognitive engagement and communicative competences for STEM undergraduates. It focuses on the integration of Perusall into stem biology curriculum and assesses to what extent it improve student learning outcomes.
Investigator
YEONG Foong May (NUS, YLLSOM)
Implementation
Oct. 2018-Oct. 2019
Goal
Promoting student performance and motivation with a growth mindset of interest (additional comparative experimentation).
Investigator
Paul O’KEEFE (Yale-NUS, Psychology)
Implementation
Nov. 2018-Nov. 2019
Goal
An evaluative inquiry into the academic writing development of the AY2016/2017 cohort of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) undergraduates enrolled in a core writing module that is aimed at developing academic literacy and related critical thinking skills. This study aims to trace students’ written academic literacy growth within and beyond their first year of studies at the university. Of interest are the components of students’ grammatical complexity in adopting a formal register to construct and convey intended meaning and the critical thinking and synthesis of source ideas.
Investigators
WU Siew Mei (NUS CELC), LEE Kooi Cheng (NUS CELC), YAP Melvin (NUS FASS)
Implementation
Nov. 2019- Dec. 2020
Goal
We propose a novel framework – that effective social communication in academic pursuit relies on three key, synergistic components: informational sharing, meaning-making, and social contagion. In the long term, our research hopes to offer a comprehensive guide outlining clear steps on how students can navigate social communication in a way that capitalizes on these processes to maximize motivation and academic outcomes.
Investigator
JIA Lile (NUS Psychology)
Implementation
Oct. 2019- Dec. 2020