This $374,120 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to characterize the help resource landscape available to students in computing courses and understand how students from different backgrounds seek and utilize these resources. The project at North Carolina State University (NC State) has three primary goals: 1) Describe the current help resource landscape in computing courses, 2) Understand students' help-seeking...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) was awarded a $549,700 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The five-year grant will support research harnessing interpersonal common sense for social grounding in natural language processing. As described in the NSF program, the goal is to advance the development and use of research cyberinfrastructure to enable and accelerate...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $143,278 to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to develop and validate a versatile, equitable assessment tool for evaluating student knowledge in introductory computer science courses. The project aims to enhance the existing Second Computer Science 1 (SCS1) assessment by increasing the number of questions and improving the validity and formative value of...
North Carolina State University will apply a digital tool to support self-regulated learning strategies in introductory geoscience courses under a $480,225 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2021 with a completion date of June 30, 2024. The funding supports the university's work under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which aims to ensure the vitality of the Nation's science, technology,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $657,616 project grant under its STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) for the project "Integrating Self-Regulated Learning into STEM Courses: Maximizing Learning Outcomes with the STSRL Framework." This 3-year effort aims to improve postsecondary students' academic success and retention in STEM disciplines by embedding effective self-regulated learning...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $240,530 project grant from the National Science Foundation to support the "ATHENA: Learning-Oriented Search with Personalized Learning Flows" collaborative research effort from October 2021 through September 2024. The grant is funded through NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and information science and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will use a $335,948 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to determine if parental STEM language varies by child gender. The research effort, taking place from September 2021 through August 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will employ computational language processing techniques to analyze parental speech patterns regarding STEM topics around their children. The STEM Education program aims to...
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte will provide pre-service teacher training and professional development focused on integrating ethical computational thinking into secondary mathematics and science curricula under a $618,003 National Science Foundation Project Grant awarded through the agency's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076). Over four years, the project will develop ethical computational thinking skills in three cohorts of eight undergraduate teaching candidates and their...
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 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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) received a three-year $548,722 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (formerly the Education and Human Resources program, CFDA 47.076) to develop and validate a model of self-regulated learning (SRL) in computer science education. Through this award, UNC-Chapel Hill will collect fine-grained digital trace data from students' interactions with programming tools in authentic undergraduate computer science courses. Researchers will pair this trace data with think-aloud protocol data to map digitally logged events to verbal SRL events and validate inferences about SRL processes. They will then collect trace data from 2,000+ students in two courses to analyze the sequential, contingent nature of SRL and inform an empirically-supported initial SRL in computer science model. Findings aim to elucidate relationships between SRL behaviors, cognitive/non-cognitive outcomes, and moderators like student characteristics to help computer science educators develop more effective learning interventions. No subawards were indicated.