This $379,990 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The overarching goal is to understand how small group experiences, specifically pair programming, can be designed to create...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the CFDA Program 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2023 to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to develop new curricular modules and hands-on exercises for computer science students and the software development workforce. The goal is to enhance their secure coding practices when using AI-powered coding assistant tools, such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot,...
This $370,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to implement and study evidence-based teaching practices that promote equitable collaboration in undergraduate data science courses at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Monterey Bay. The project will investigate students' experiences when collaborating on pair programming tasks in the data science classroom, with a focus...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $698,161 project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Southern California on December 15, 2022. The grant will support the development of multimodal accessibility tools to facilitate programming education and workforce readiness for individuals with physical disabilities. Specifically, the University of Southern California will develop prototypes of speech, eye tracking, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $252,007 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Northeastern University. The grant supports the development and testing of AI-based programming tools to assist social and natural scientists with computer programming tasks. The research team is developing large language models and associated tools to support programming languages commonly used in the sciences, such as MATLAB and R, in order to make programming easier...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $1,283,565 will fund the development of an AI-driven classroom assistant called Insight to transform introductory computer science instruction from 2023-2027. Under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), North Carolina State University will design, develop, and refine Insight to provide real-time adaptive feedback and coding analytics to both students and instructors. The university will collaborate with computer science courses at...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,578 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a direct manipulation programming system that integrates visual and textual representations of computer code. The 3-year project seeks to transform the nature of programming by making it more intuitive and accessible, especially for beginners, by allowing programmers to directly...
This $149,971 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The primary awardee, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), will collaborate with Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State...
This $249,960 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The project, led by North Carolina State University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Massachusetts, aims to provide...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $299,776 supports a research-practice partnership between the University of Central Oklahoma, Code.org, and the Kiawa Tribe to develop computer science curriculum and professional development for tribal educators in Oklahoma. The key products and services to be delivered include: Co-designing computer science curricular interventions that...