Project Grant 1339424

This $277,284 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the Research Foundation for the State University of New York to design a residency-based computer science teacher preparation program in partnership with Lockport City School District. The goal is to increase access to K-12 computer science courses and train qualified teachers through a community-based, justice-oriented approach. Specifically, the award will support the development of CS curricular pathways for the high school and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program provides $1,197,134 to the University of Massachusetts for a research-practice partnership studying the impacts of and impediments to diffusing an equity-centered computer science curriculum across 32 elementary schools in the Springfield Public School District through 2025. The University will partner with Springfield Public Schools to employ a teacher-co-designed curriculum integrating computer science...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $293,330 to Coastal Carolina University to address the computer science (CS) teacher shortage in South Carolina. The project aims to increase the number of licensed CS teachers in the state who can lead rigorous CS programs, especially in rural, low-income, and underrepresented schools. The key products and services to be delivered include: An accelerated,...

The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $203,828 to CAL State La University Auxiliary Services Inc. under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support the Collaborative Research: BPC-A project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The funding will support an alliance of six California State University campuses—Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, Cal Poly Pomona,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $300,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023. The award will support collecting enrollment and degree attainment data in undergraduate computing programs disaggregated by gender and race/ethnicity for three to five institutions with...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant award of $1,999,992 to Hofstra University will fund the "Exploring Computation Integrated into Technology and Engineering II (EXCITE II)" initiative. The project aims to provide professional development workshops and resources to enable technology and engineering teachers across 9 states to offer pedagogically sound Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP)...

This two-year, $299,998 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to expand access to computer science education across rural Kansas through the Cyber Pipeline Initiative led by Kansas State University's Department of Computer Science. The initiative currently provides computer science curriculum, teacher professional development and support to seven schools. This demonstration project will modify the Computing Core...

The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) awarded a $299,912 Project Grant to Chico State Enterprises, a Minority Institution and Hispanic Serving Institution, to fund the "Embedding Representation, Relevance, and Equity in a Personalized System of Instruction" project. This 2-year collaboration between California State University, Chico and the University of California, Santa Barbara will develop instructional videos featuring...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award to Louisiana State University (LSU) in the amount of $138,601 aims to increase the use of project-based learning in undergraduate software engineering courses. The project will design, develop, and evaluate a reference software engineering course with a repository of 12 ready-to-use projects and associated active learning activities. These resources are intended to enable instructors to more easily...

This $499,828 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to formalize the concept of "threat perception" (TP) in software development and design educational interventions to improve TP learning among undergraduate computer science students. The primary goals are to: 1) develop a mechanistic model of TP based on constructivist learning theory, 2) analyze how code analysis tasks like "build it, break it, fix...