This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal Project Grant award, with CFDA number 47.070, provides $240,900.00 to the University of Colorado to develop educational resources for the ethical use of pervasive data in computing and data science research. The project will span 3 years from September 2024 to August 2027.
In Phase 1, the research team will survey and interview current computing students and junior researchers to identify...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources (CFDA #47.076), provides $114,724 to the University of Pittsburgh to improve engineering ethics education. The award aims to develop and test interactive collaborative and competitive scenarios to teach ethical reasoning skills to undergraduate engineering students, compared to traditional instructional methods. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh will...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will support The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in piloting a Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) approach to integrate ethical reasoning into core computer science (CS) courses through contextualized AI scenarios. The $995,830 award will fund the development of open-source ethics modules focused on AI that...
This $246,900 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of reflection exercises and vignettes to promote professional dispositions among undergraduate computing students. Awarded under the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education program (CFDA 47.076), the grant involves faculty from four institutions collaborating over two years to design and study exercises asking students to explain how they have demonstrated behaviors like persistence and...
This Project Grant award for $393,800 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports research to improve the effectiveness of engineering ethics education. The project aims to develop new educational strategies and teaching tools that can better equip future engineers to act ethically and understand the societal implications of their work. Through a series of tasks, the research will explore how undergraduate research, classroom instruction, and variation...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $149,971 to the University of Massachusetts for the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE). The project aims to leverage artificial intelligence and generative AI to enhance computer science education by providing personalized learning experiences and feedback for individual students. Working with partners at...
The National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education awarded Educational Testing Service a $622,551 Project Grant to develop authentic and fair computer science assessments from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024.
Under the grant, ETS will create assessments to support the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which aims to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise. Specifically, ETS will develop...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $119,984 will support the development and study of reflection exercises and vignettes to promote the acquisition of professional dispositions among undergraduate computing students. Awarded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the two-year project is led by the University of New Hampshire in partnership with three other institutions. The multi-institutional team will build on prior work to design reflection exercises and a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Purdue University a $542,660 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to develop an evidence-based framework and curricula for educating undergraduate researchers on ethical data life cycle management. The 3-year project aims to:
Assess undergraduate researchers' competencies in data life cycle planning, access, assurance, description, evaluation, preservation, and publication.
Create a framework for evaluating students' data...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program ($570,422) supports the development of resources and professional development to transform grading practices in computing education. Awarded June 1, 2023 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the project aims to develop and implement a Unified Theory of Equitable Grading for Computing Education. It will produce grading resources, deploy a professional development campaign focused on equitable...