This $149,971 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), will support the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The primary awardee, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), will collaborate with Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State...
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 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...
This $249,960 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The project, led by North Carolina State University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Massachusetts, aims to provide...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $191,929 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley. This 4-year grant, active from June 1, 2023 to September 30, 2027, aims to develop and evaluate an AI-driven classroom assistant called "Insight" to transform introductory computer science education. The project objectives are to:...
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 $900,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of an AI-based learning support system to provide personalized educational content for large-scale university courses in sustainability science. The key components of the project include: Designing and evaluating a system to interview students about their backgrounds and transform this data into a knowledge graph representation to inform...
This $247,739 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance computer science education. The project, led by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State University, aims to provide...
This $280,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State University. The C-3PE system will utilize artificial intelligence and generative AI to provide personalized learning experiences, recommendations, and feedback for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant (CFDA 47.070) award of $175,331 will support the development and evaluation of novel AI-based methods for student modeling to trace students' competencies in computer science education. The project aims to tailor large language models (LLMs) to account for students' knowledge state, learning practices, and interactions with intelligent learning systems in order to generate more...