The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $450,244 grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Trustees of Union College in Schenectady, NY. The grant will fund the development of the OCCTIVE video library, designed to introduce foundational computing concepts in non-computer science courses. The project aims to (1) expand and strengthen the OCCTIVE library, (2) broadly disseminate it for use by non-computer science faculty and peer tutors, and (3) assess its impact on...
The University of California, San Diego will research the impact of low prerequisite proficiency on student success in computer science under a $265,927 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The three-year award will fund a collaborative research effort to understand how deficiencies in foundational math and science skills influence undergraduate outcomes in computer science courses and majors. Insights gained from this work could help shape...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $299,973 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to determine the effectiveness of live coding on student learning in introductory programming. The project will assess how live coding, where instructors demonstrate programming live in front of students, impacts student comprehension, engagement and performance in gateway computer science courses from January 2021 through December 2023. As...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $174,998 to develop a set of educational modules called "courselets" focused on data systems. The University of California, San Diego will create courselets based on literate programming concepts that allow students to complete hands-on exercises exploring data acquisition,...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop a course that teaches computer science students how to work with and comprehend large code bases. The project, awarded to the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), is designed to address the "academia-industry gap" where new computer science graduates are often underprepared for contributing to large, existing software code bases in...
The Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) a $2,160,000 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) program to develop curriculum and remote learning modules for future STEM leaders. The 3-year grant, which commenced on June 1, 2023 and concludes on May 31, 2026, will support UCSD's efforts to create innovative educational resources that expand postsecondary opportunities...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to generate and evaluate culturally relevant computing resources for Latine students in undergraduate computer science (CS) programs. The goal is to create a culturally relevant textbook for introductory programming and conduct controlled experiments to compare its effectiveness...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $455,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The 4-year project, which started on July 1, 2024, focuses on developing techniques for a mathematical understanding of deep learning and its application to a variety of neural network models and data sets. The key objectives are to: 1) compare different networks and understand...
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...
This $659,861 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) supports research by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore how transdisciplinary computational learning experiences can foster identity formation, persistence, and a sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students in STEM fields. The research aims to make theoretical and empirical contributions to undergraduate computer science education, design-based...