Instructional Resource Grants (Division 2)

Up to five grants of $1,500 each will be presented annually to enable recipients to complete substantive instructional research projects related to the teaching of psychology that will create resources suitable for posting on OTRP-Online, or if an empirical study, for publication in Teaching of Psychology or a SoTL journal. Proposals may be general in focus or specific to a particular psychology course or student population. Research may be empirical (e.g., an investigation to determine which strategies are most successful in preventing cheating), experiential (e.g. a critical summary and evaluation of time-tested methods of assessing learning in child development courses), or reviews of the literature on new topics in psychology (e.g., producing an annotated bibliography of readings or internet resources in cross-cultural psychology). Proposals to create internet sites will not be funded unless the posted resource captures the same information in a print-friendly file (.doc, .pdf, .rtf); given its mission to provide readers with high quality, peer-reviewed materials, OTRP will not link to outside internet sources because they cannot be monitored continuously. The average funding rate in the last five years is 38 percent.

The purpose of the Instructional Resource Grants is twofold: (1) to stimulate the development of teaching resource materials, and (2) to encourage instructional research relevant to the teaching of psychology at the university, college, community college, or high school level, either of which can be subsequently posted by the society’s website for interested teachers of psychology or published in Teaching of Psychology or similar SoTL journal.

Deadline: February

Any member of Div. 2 is eligible to apply, except for current members of the division’s executive or awards committees.

Application details are available on Div 2’s websiteopens in new window.

Deadline: February