This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare undergraduate students at Georgia Gwinnett College, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, for careers in the software engineering industry. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: Offering paid, project-based internships that provide software development students with hands-on training, mentorship, and opportunities to work on...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award to Louisiana State University (LSU) in the amount of $138,601 aims to increase the use of project-based learning in undergraduate software engineering courses. The project will design, develop, and evaluate a reference software engineering course with a repository of 12 ready-to-use projects and associated active learning activities. These resources are intended to enable instructors to more easily...
This $108,603 National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award to Chico State Enterprises aims to develop and evaluate a pedagogical approach for assessing individual student contributions to team software engineering projects. The goal is to create rigorous methods for evaluating the quality of software artifacts produced by students in team-based courses, which will strengthen software engineering education by enabling valid, reliable, and practical...
This $798,619 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to increase opportunities for success for STEM students at two Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in central Florida. The key products and services to be delivered under this four-year project include: Developing assessments using generative AI technology to provide flexible testing options, such as increased accessibility, multiple attempts, and sharing across instructors and...
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 $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop a framework for assessing individual student contributions to team software projects in undergraduate computing education. The project, awarded to Oregon State University (OSU), will create a teaching and assessment approach where students document and reflect on their project tasks and learning outcomes, which are then evaluated by instructors and peers....
This $113,370 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform introductory engineering courses at a Hispanic-serving two-year college. The goal is to enhance student success and interest in pursuing STEM degrees through a project-based learning approach. The award will fund the development of quasi-independent, low-cost classroom materials and curricula that provide early-career engineering students with significant...
This Project Grant award of $245,975.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop a framework for assessing individual student contributions to team software projects in undergraduate computing education. The project, awarded to the University of Montana, will create a novel teaching and assessment approach where students compile individual portfolios documenting their project tasks and reflect on their contributions. Instructors and peers...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $241,628 Project Grant to Temple University under the STEM Education federal grant program (CFDA 47.076) to examine the effects of course climate, active learning, and intersectional identities on undergraduate student success in computing. The three-year project beginning July 1, 2021 will analyze how pedagogical practices and consideration of student social identities impact retention and performance in introductory computing courses. Insights gained...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $200,000 to Georgia Gwinnett College to improve student success in information technology (IT) courses through the integration of agile project management teaching and learning. The project aims to enhance academic outcomes and career readiness, particularly for Hispanic and other underrepresented students in IT fields. Key activities include developing inclusive agile project management teaching materials, assisting faculty in creating agile-integrated course projects, and providing mentoring and career development opportunities for participating students. The project seeks to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates, as well as promote equity in the IT field. Research will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the agile project management teaching methods for the target student population, with findings to be shared with the STEM education community.