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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Development of a Grant Proposal
- Consider the problem you want to address or the question you want
to ask.
- Determine the context of change: content, process, product, environment.
- Conduct a literature search to learn what is already known in your
discipline, other disciplines, higher education.
- Determine possible qualitative and/or quantitative methods you can
use to address this desired change.
- Pilot test your idea or test an intervention with one class or other
subset of your students.
- Communicate results to your students and compare their feedback/comments
with your interpretation.
- Define your problem or question based on pilot test results.
- Review and update your literature search.
- Determine other possible qualitative and/or quantitative methods you
can use to answer the question or solve the problem.
- Determine what resources you need to conduct the project, including
time and financial requirements.
- Conduct a funding search to identify grantmakers that might be interested
in the problem or question. Consider on-campus grant programs.
- Gather information such as guidelines, annual reports, application
materials, lists of previously funded projects.
- Determine why each sponsor will be interested in your project: content,
process, product, or environment. Select the best one or two sponsors
to pursue.
- Initiate communication with the sponsor via telephone, personal letter,
or personal contact unless guidelines prohibit such contact.
- Draft a proposal to the sponsor. Concentrate on the significance statement
(why is the project important, and why is it important to the sponsor?).
Establish well articulated goals and objectives that lead clearly to
your established methodology and a solid plan for evaluation and communication
of results.
- Draft a budget based on specific teaching, learning, evaluation, and
follow-up activities.
- Work with appropriate people and offices at IU and any collaborating
institutions to ensure support for your project and compliance with
local and sponsor regulations.
- Ask colleagues and sponsored research staff to critically review your
proposal and budget.
- Revise, rewrite, revise, rewrite.
- Submit your proposal based on institutional and sponsor requirements.
Landen/McCallister, 2000
Contact:
Marcia Landen
Director, Sponsored Program Development
Sponsored Research Services
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Landen@indiana.edu
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