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 landscape in computing courses, 2) understand students' help-seeking behaviors and usage of resources, and 3) evaluate an intervention to improve students' understanding and utilization of help resources to develop self-regulated learning skills. The project will use a quantitative approach to describe the current help resource landscape, conduct interviews to clarify students' help-seeking patterns, and create best practices for equitable computing course design, including an intervention to explicitly teach students about the help resource landscape and empower them to effectively leverage it.
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