This $175,331 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will fund collaborative research to develop advanced student modeling and tailored large language models (LLMs) for personalized learning in computer science education. The project aims to improve the effectiveness and quality of personalized learning by integrating fine-grained student process data to model problem-solving...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $199,299 to the University of California, Berkeley to develop and evaluate novel AI-based methods for student modeling and tailoring large language models (LLMs) to enhance personalized learning in computer science education. The project aims to trace students' problem-solving competencies, identify effective and harmful learning patterns, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $178,031 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Massachusetts for the project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH:CYBERTRAINING:IMPLEMENTATION:MEDIUM: MODERN COURSE EXEMPLARS INFUSED WITH PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR THE INTRODUCTORY COMPUTING COURSE SEQUENCE". The project aims to design and evaluate a modernized first-year introductory computer science course sequence...
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...
This $399,988 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop and test technology-based interventions to help introductory biology students improve self-regulation and learning. The project, led by the University of Colorado, will engage over 2,000 introductory biology students annually in reflective practices focused on motivation, metacognition, and self-regulation. The interventions will be integrated into a...
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 $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to enhance learning and motivation in introductory programming courses at Georgia Gwinnett College, a Hispanic-serving institution. The key products and services to be delivered include: Integrating research-supported pedagogies and automated tools to accommodate diverse learning styles, including hiring and mentoring a diverse group of peer tutors and producing a video library to...
This $324,986 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to study the complex help resource landscape available to students in computing courses and how students navigate this landscape. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CHARACTERIZING AND EMPOWERING STUDENT SUCCESS WHEN TRAVERSING THE ACADEMIC HELP LANDSCAPE," has three primary goals: 1) characterize the help resource...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $249,120 to Georgia Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and Arizona State University to explore the "hidden curricula" in computer science (CS) education. The three-year research program aims to: Identify factors from the hidden curricula that could pose risks to students' mental health, such as anxiety, depression, and the...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) aims to enhance student learning and engagement in large lecture STEM courses. The $103,426 award to the University of Pittsburgh supports the development and optimization of a digital learning environment called CourseMirror that uses natural language processing (NLP) techniques to prompt and scaffold...