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...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) aims to redesign an introductory computer science (CS1) course to teach programming with the aid of large language model (LLM) AI assistants. The key goals are to: 1) Redesign the CS1 course to emphasize skills like code reading, testing, and problem decomposition rather than just syntax and writing code from scratch; 2) Study how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $191,929 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. This 4-year grant, active from June 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, aims to develop and evaluate an AI-driven classroom assistant called "Insight" to transform introductory computer science education. The project objectives are to:...
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...
The Leland Stanford Junior University was awarded a $850,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the STEM Education (47.076) federal grant program. The three-year award will support development of an AI pair-programming agent named CoCode to serve as a tool and tutor for students learning computer programming. Stanford will prototype and test CoCode using techniques like pair programming pedagogy and innovations in language models and...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $280,000 Project Grant through its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to develop and evaluate a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The collaborative project, led by Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State University, aims to provide...
This three-year, $349,987 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the University of Houston to understand and mitigate the impacts of code intelligence systems in introductory programming courses. The university will develop infrastructure for students to use intelligent code generation tools in a web development environment. It will then conduct pilot experiments examining effects on student tinkering behaviors and self-efficacy. An...
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...
This $339,927 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support Georgetown University's development of an intelligent conversational agent. The agent will be built on a hierarchical model-based deep reinforcement learning framework to enable proactive, two-way conversations that can dynamically detect opportunities to expand knowledge and explore new topics. The project...