This $190,737 National Science Foundation project grant supports research on the security and privacy implications of remote proctoring services for educational policies and practices. Funded under the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), this 24-month award to Georgetown University will advance knowledge in pedagogy and usable security/privacy. Specifically, the multi-pronged research effort will examine how online proctoring technologies impact...
This $213,100 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop and deliver remote experiments utilizing cloud-based resources to educate a broad audience of students and practitioners in hardware security. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: EDU: A SOCIALLY-DISTANT CLOUD-BASED HARDWARE SECURITY EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM," will create a comprehensive online training module with detailed experiments and...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...
This $186,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development and delivery of remote experiments utilizing cloud-based resources to educate students and practitioners in hardware security. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: EDU: A SOCIALLY-DISTANT CLOUD-BASED HARDWARE SECURITY EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM", aims to create a comprehensive online training module accessible to a broad...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Initiation Award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $450,000 to Shaw University, a historically Black college or university, to investigate disparities in smart technology privacy studies. The project has two main components: 1) conducting a systematic literature review to identify trends, gaps, and demographic profiles of participants in existing smart technology privacy studies, and 2) carrying out user studies such as...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) totaling $149,999 will fund the development and assessment of a two-stage exam process to improve teaching and learning outcomes in introductory computer science courses. The George Washington University will receive the funding to implement multiple choice exams requiring answer justifications from students. Those demonstrating knowledge gaps will participate in structured post-exam interviews to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $210,000.00 to develop a lab-based curriculum and open-source platform for training students, the current workforce, and policymakers on watermarking techniques to detect AI-generated content. The objective is to bridge the education gap on this emerging technology, which is critical for addressing societal and legal concerns around the potential misuse of generative AI. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports research to uncover school policies and decision-making processes that structure access to and engagement in high school STEM credit recovery programs, particularly online STEM courses. The $646,405 grant awarded to George Mason University will fund three interrelated studies: 1) an in-depth case study in 14 schools in a large, demographically changing suburban district, 2) a...
This $300,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop a "Professional Informatics" (Pro-I) system using classroom sensing technologies. The goal is to provide instructors personalized feedback on their teaching practices to help create more equitable learning experiences, especially to increase underrepresented student participation in STEM fields. The project will...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $115,995 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: SMALL: FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRIVATE LEARNING SYSTEMS." The place of performance is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This award will support research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022 under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The...