Project title: Exploring Faculty Motivation and Practices Using Universal Design for Instruction in Introductory Statistics/Data Science Classrooms
PI: Dr. Maria Tackett
Co-Investigators: Dr. Sinem Demirci
Funded by: American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and Data Science Education Member Initiative Grant
Role & time spent: Co-Investigator, 16.12.2024 – Present
Project title: Exploring the Role of Curiosity in Learning Statistics
PI: Dr. Beth Chance
Co-Investigators: Dr. Sinem Demirci, Visruth Srimath Kandali – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Partners/Collaborators: Ranjani Grove - University of Washington, David Wilcox - The Lawrenceville School, Uma Ravat - UC Santa Barbara
Role & time spent: Co-Investigator, 29.10.2024 - Present
Project title: Coastal California Classroom Initiative – Exploring the Impact of Sonification on Identifying Skewed Distributions in Introductory Statistics
PI: Jeanine Scaramozzino – Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Co-Investigators: Dr. Julia Schedler, Dr. Sinem Demirci – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Partners/Collaborators: Donya Ava Behroozi, Annica Wu, Josh Schneider, Aaron C. Liggett, – Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Funded by: CET Seed Grants
Role & time spent: Co-Investigator, 2024 - 2025
Project title: Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Data Science Education: An Assessment of Readiness to Teach Data Science in Higher Education
Principle Investigator: Dr Sinem Demirci
Co-PI: Dr Mine Dogucu – University College London
Collaborators: Dr Joshua M. Rosenberg – University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Dr Andrew Zieffler – University of Minnesota
Funded by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, TÜBİTAK
Sponsored by: University College London
Time spent: Principal Investigator, 01.08.2022 - 31.07.2023
Project title: Copten Gubreye 3 [ From Waste to Fertilizer 3 - Composting]
Principal Investigator: Dr. Serap Bilen (METU, Society and Science Application and Research Center)
Supported by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBİTAK
Role & time spent: Trainer, 08.04.2019 - 19.04.2019
Project No: 218B226
Project title: Copten Gubreye! [ From Waste to Fertilizer 1 - Composting]
Principal Investigator: Dr. Serap Bilen (METU, Society and Science Application and Research Center)
Supported by: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, TUBİTAK
Role & time spent: Trainer, 09.10.2017 - 30.10.2017
Project No: 117B056
Project title: University Students’ Beliefs on Human Population Growth
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan Sahin (METU, Dept. of Science and Mathematics Education)
Supported by: Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit, Middle East Technical University
Role & time spent: Researcher, 1.1.2013 - 31.12.2013
Project No: BAP-07-03-2013-010
Project title: In-service Science Teachers’ Teaching Experiences on Atomic Models within the context of History of Science
Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan Şahin (METU, Dept. of Science and Mathematics Education)
Collaborators: Prof. Dr. Ayhan Yilmaz - Hacettepe University
Res. Assist. Sinem Demirci - Middle East Technical University
Supported by: Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit, Middle East Technical
Role & time spent: Researcher, 1.1.2015 -31.12.2015
Project No: BAP-05-06-2015-001