This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) project grant award of $365,905 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) aims to enhance the CASELET tool, a scalable case-based learning platform, to improve data science problem-solving competency among graduate students. The project will augment CASELET with new features, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and data analytics to scale up the...
This Project Grant award of $332,468 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) is designed to create classroom activities, tools, and an online library to guide students in developing more robust and personalized analogies to learn computing concepts. The project aims to address challenges in decomposing abstract computing concepts and mapping them to students' personal experiences, with the goal of improving comprehension, confidence, and persistence for...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve fundamental data analytical skills for STEM students, with a focus on enhancing learning for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. The $346,385 award, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2028, will utilize a theme-based approach to deliver personalized learning experiences in introductory statistics courses at...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $398,236 to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to create a sustainable, adaptable framework for fostering critical thinking and inspiring diverse learners in STEM fields. The project aims to promote sustained interest and critical statistical thinking across undergraduate STEM education by implementing a novel two-course cross-level structure that pairs advanced...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, aims to investigate essential competencies for data science literacy and how undergraduate students learn these fundamentals in introductory data science courses. The $331,452 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2027, will be led by Arizona State University (ASU) to serve the national interest by identifying priority data science competencies and...
The Project Grant award of $992,671 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will establish an interdisciplinary education ecosystem at Clark University to create flexible pathways into, through, and beyond data science education. The key components include: Domain Exploration Modules that integrate data science into diverse disciplines to enhance data literacy among general students and enrich data science education for majors and minors. A Data Science Studio...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) award of $399,724 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) will develop AI-driven educational technology tools to enhance undergraduate computer science learning. Specifically, the project will explore how large language models (LLMs) can be customized to enable personalized, interactive, and reflective learning experiences for STEM students. The project aims to: (1) examine how LLMs can provide...
This three-year, $1,110,166 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will leverage partnerships among data scientists, researchers, data science education experts and teachers to develop secondary students' data acumen, decision making using data, and use of data tools. The project has three key goals: 1) Create data sets to engage high school students in the data life cycle, 2) Co-design curricular materials with teachers and data science...
This $162,814 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development of conceptual models to improve student learning outcomes in computer science theory courses at the University of Rochester from July 2022 through June 2025. The award aims to study the impact of teaching students to create their own conceptual models of theoretical computing concepts. Researchers will analyze qualitative and quantitative data from student surveys,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, will fund the development of data management training and support resources for STEM research laboratories. Totaling $203,613, the award will support a two-phase project beginning in September 2022 through August 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the initial research phase, the team will adapt an evidence-based communication approach used...