STP Instructional Resource Grants

STP Instructional Resource Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Society for the Teaching of Psychology
Amount: US $1,500
Last Updated: December 22, 2025

Summary

The STP Instructional Resource Grants aim to foster the creation of educational materials and promote research in psychology education. These grants, awarded annually, support projects that enhance teaching resources for various educational levels. The initiative encourages diverse applicants, particularly from underrepresented backgrounds. Recipients may develop general or specialized instructional resources, contributing to publications in relevant educational journals. Grants will not fund projects that solely create internet sites unless they provide print-friendly materials.

Overview

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 as a Teaching Resource on the STP website for interested teachers of psychology, or published in Teaching of Psychology or a similar SoTL journal. Consistent with our Mission Statement and the Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism and Inequity in STP, we encourage applications from colleagues who are from underrepresented groups and have diverse backgrounds and experiences. Up to five grants will be presented annually to enable recipients to complete substantive instructional resource projects related to the teaching of psychology suitable for posting on the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) website as a teaching resource; or if the project is an empirical study, for publication in Teaching of Psychology or another 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, teaching resources should not link to outside Internet sources because they cannot be monitored continuously.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Any member of APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology is eligible to apply for an STP Instructional Resource Grant. You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.

Ineligibility

Current members of the Society’s Executive Committee and the IRG Committee are ineligible to apply.