The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York will receive $198,205 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education to support the collaborative research project "Expanding Subgoal Labels for Imperative Programming to Further Improve Student Learning Outcome." The grant will fund work from August 2021 through July 2024. The project aims to develop new approaches to subgoal labeling in imperative programming to...
This $385,799 National Science Foundation project grant will fund research and educational activities through August 2024 under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The University of Delaware will leverage educational data mining to understand how undergraduate computer science students regulate learning and draw on motivational resources. Initial findings aim to inform a just-in-time learning intervention to improve study patterns. The project also seeks to increase participation of...
The University of Virginia received a $374,876 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: DASS: ACCOUNTABLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS FOR SAFETY-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS" from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications,...
The Virginia Commonwealth University was awarded a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) federal grant program. The three-year award will support the development of personalized secure programming learning projects motivated by real-world security vulnerabilities. Specifically, the university will map secure programming curriculum topics to categories of real vulnerabilities, build easy-to-use...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $695,368 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) to develop instructional units that integrate computer coding into mathematics and science lessons for third, fourth, and fifth grade students. The goal is to create engaging, conceptually-focused coding tasks that can be incorporated into elementary school...
The University of Virginia received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on January 1, 2022 to support research titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: GENERALIZING ADVERSARIAL EXAMPLES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE." The period of performance for this award is January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The award will support investigator-initiated research in the area of computer and information science and engineering under...
This Project Grant award for $499,998.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education). The award will fund the incubation and piloting of a "laboratory classroom" to capture real-time data on individual student and teacher behavior, neurology, physiology, cognition, and physical interactions within classroom settings. This research aims to advance understanding of how individual student...
The University of Virginia received a $249,101 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to support the "METHODS AND RESULTS IN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION USING LITERARY DIGITAL EDITIONS" project from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The funding will allow the University of Virginia to contribute to scientific research and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Utah State University a $349,847 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) CFDA program. The grant will fund a 3-year research project to investigate students' keystroke patterns as they work on Python programming assignments in introductory computer programming courses. The project aims to develop targeted intervention strategies that help struggling students succeed, while also advancing educational research...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $320,822 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Virginia (UVA) for the "REU Site: The Data Justice Academy" program. This 10-week summer program provides undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds with research experiences, technical training, and professional development in data science and computational social science. The program, overseen by UVA's...