Bruce Homer
Associated IES Content
Single-Session Panels FY2024
FY2024 Single-Session Peer Review Panel
Basic Processes FY2024
Basic Processes Reviewers FY2024
Grant
Exploring the Affordances of Immersive Virtual Reality for Learning
The purpose of this project is to systematically investigate how specific features of immersive virtual reality (IVR) can be used to improve student outcomes in science learning. In particular, the researchers will examine the effectiveness of visual and auditory IVR design features in enhancing learners' affective state and cognitive processing for learners in general and for specific subgroups of learners. IVR has the potential to cause a feeling of presence, emotional arousal, and situati...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A230403
FY2022
FY2022 Single-Session Peer Review Panel
FY2021
FY2021 Single-Session Peer Review Panel
FY2021
FY2021 Basic Processes Peer Review Panel
FY2020
FY2020 Basic Processes Peer Review Panel
FY2022
Basic Processes FY2020 - FY2022 Peer review panel
Grant
Designing Crowdsourced Mentorship to Support Low-Income High School Students' College Enrollment
This partnership will develop and test a mentorship model for extending advising to college-accepted high school graduates during the summer months after graduation. Prior research has documented a pattern of "summer melt" in which motivated and academically-prepared high school graduates who have been accepted to college decide not to enroll in college. Summer melt is especially prevalent among low-income, African American, and Latinx students. Through prior research, the partnership team i...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305H180051
Grant
Focused Computer Games that Promote Specific Cognitive Skills
The research team will develop and pilot test game-based interventions for students in middle school through early college that are intended to improve the executive function (EF) skills that are needed to enter rigorous academic disciplines. EF predicts success in many academic disciplines, including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); however, explicit instruction in EF is rarely part of formal or informal education. The specific project goals are: (1) to design and d...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A150417
Grant
Molecules & Minds: Developing Bridging Scaffolds to Improve Chemistry Learning
In high school chemistry classes, the ability to visualize dynamic sub-microscopic particles (atoms and molecules) is especially important because the behavior of such particles is used to explain macroscopic phenomena (e.g., ice melting). Under a previous IES Goal 2 Development grant (R305K050140), the researchers developed six simulations in four high school chemistry topics: kinetic molecular theory, diffusion, the behavior of ideal gases, and phase change. In the process of designing, de...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305A090203
Grant
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research and Training Fellowship in the Educational Sciences (IPoRT Fellowships)
The Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research and Training Fellowship in the Educational Sciences (IPoRT Fellowships) prepared future leaders in educational science and technology research.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R305B080007
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