Award Abstract # 2055528
RET Site: Socially Relevant Computing and Analytics

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: April 13, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: May 21, 2021
Award Number: 2055528
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Allyson Kennedy
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: April 15, 2021
End Date: March 31, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $598,913.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $598,913.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $598,913.00
History of Investigator:
  • Tiffany Barnes (Principal Investigator)
    tiffany.barnes@gmail.com
  • Collin Lynch (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Veronica Catete (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: North Carolina State University
2601 WOLF VILLAGE WAY
RALEIGH
NC  US  27695-0001
(919)515-2444
Sponsor Congressional District: 02
Primary Place of Performance: North Carolina State University
890 Oval Dr. Box 8206
Raleigh
NC  US  27695-8206
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): U3NVH931QJJ3
Parent UEI: U3NVH931QJJ3
NSF Program(s): RES EXP FOR TEACHERS(RET)-SITE
Primary Program Source: 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 1359
Program Element Code(s): 135900
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

This award creates a new Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site focused on socially relevant computing and analytics at North Carolina State University. Each summer, in-service and pre-service teachers will be recruited and put into research teams with a computer science (CS) graduate student research mentor and a CS research faculty mentor. In this immersive research experience, teachers will learn software tools, human computer interaction, and rapid prototype development as they work with CS researchers to investigate socially relevant problems concerning health, education, and critical infrastructures. Participants will synthesize research projects into problem-based computing assignments for students, integrating equitable practices for computing curricula including providing students the opportunity to represent their culture and ideas into the projects. Through immersing educators in socially relevant computing research, they will have a much better understanding of the impacts of computing and will be better able to relay these concepts to their students and through a focus on equitable curriculum design, we can investigate how well their created projects resonate with female, African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx students.

This Research Experience for Teachers (RET) site at North Carolina State University will focus on socially relevant computing and analytics. In service teachers will be recruited from school districts serving large populations of underrepresented students, and will be placed in teams along with pre-service teachers and computer science graduate students. This Affinity Research Group model will immerse participants in a vibrant community to contribute to ongoing research in socially relevant computing and analytics. Research projects include serious games, interface design, critical infrastructures, novice programming environments, intelligent tutoring systems, machine learning, and data analytics. The RET Site will also work with participants to develop curricular modules linked to their research experiences including workshops on equitable and culturally relevant CS curricula and intensive workshops with peer feedback for development of modules. The site?s objective is to create a collaborative culture, promote individual research contributions, and create culturally responsive and inclusive curricular modules. The intended impact on participating teachers is to increase their CS knowledge, efficacy, research and presentation skills; and to increase retention and engagement of their students. The intended impact on broadening participation of underrepresented groups in CS is to create high levels of student engagement particularly for females, African-Americans/Blacks, Hispanics/Latinx and new knowledge about CS and careers. Plans for academic-year follow-up and outreach activities and dissemination include RET Teams and mentors support teachers in classroom implementation; pre-service teachers observing classes; and two workshops to reinforce pedagogical and research knowledge gained.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Catete, Veronica and Isvik, Amy and Hill, Marnie "A Framework for Socially-Relevant Service-Learning Internship Experiences for High School Students" 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499355 Citation Details
Limke, Ally and Islam, Saminur and Riahi, Bahare and Tian, Xiaoyi and Hill, Marnie and Cateté, Veronica and Barnes, Tiffany "What Does It Take to Support Problem Solving in Programming Classrooms? A New Framework from the K-12 Teacher Perspective" , 2025 https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3719763 Citation Details
Reichert, Heidi and Tabarsi, Benyamin T and Zang, Zifan and Fennell, Cheri and Bhandari, Indira and Robinson, David and Drayton, Madeline and Crofton, Catherine and Lococo, Matthew and Xu, Dongkuan and Barnes, Tiffany "Empowering Secondary School Teachers: Creating, Executing, and Evaluating a Transformative Professional Development Course on ChatGPT" , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE61694.2024.10893106 Citation Details

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