Grants Awarded
We have been supported by several NSF grants, briefly
detailed below.
CCLI - Level 1 0736697, 0736552, 0736945
This grant is to incorporate Alice into an introductory programming (CS1) class that is taught with Java. The grant will fund the creation of curricular materials, as well as the testing of those materials in classrooms. Alice 3.0 will be used.- Title: Collaborative Research: Alice += Java
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI), Wanda Dann, and Don Slater.
ITEST 0623808, 0624479, 0624528, 0624642, 0624654
This grant is to build partnerships between colleges and local school districts, and to provide professional development for middle and high school teachers on how to teach courses with Alice using our innovative approach. The workshop sites will be in Virginia Beach, VA, Durham, NC, Columbia, SC, Oxford, MS, Denver, CO, and San Francisco, CA.- Title: An innovative approach for attracting students to computing: A comprehensive proposal
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI), Wanda Dann, John Harrison, Barbara Moskal, Cathy Skokan, Susan Rodger, RoxAnn Stalvey, Medeleine Schep, Pam Lawhead, Fred Triefenbach and Dan Lewis.
CCLI - Level 2 0618461, 0618380, 0618531, 0618562
This grant is to develop curricular materials to combine the Alice and Media Computation approaches into a single CS1-level course. This grant will also fund the running of workshops at three sites (Pittsburgh, PA, Providence, RI, and Atlanta, GA) to train teachers on how to use and teach with this new approach in their classes.- Title: Alice and Media Computation
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI), Wanda Dann, Barbara Moskal, Barbara Ericson, and Mark Guzdial.
CCLI - ASA 0511940, 0512064, 0512098, 0512213
This grant is to create and validate a content mastery and an attitudes instrument for measuring student learning outcomes and student attitudes in introductory computing courses.- Title: Collaborative Research: Assessing Concept Knowledge and Attitudes in Introductory Computer Science Courses
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- Team: Barbara Moskal (PI), Mark Guzdial, Stephen Cooper, and Wanda Dann.
CCLI - Project (now renamed Level 2) 0339734
This grant is to run workshops at three sites (Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh-Durham, NC, and Oxford, MS) to train teachers on how to use and teach with Alice in their classes.- Title: Program Visualization Using Virtual Worlds
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI), Wanda Dann, Barbara Moskal, and Randy Pausch.
ATE 0302542
This grant is to work with three different types of community colleges (urban, suburban, and rural) on how to incorporate the teaching of Alice into their computing curricula.- Title: JABRWOC -- Java-based Animation: Building viRtual Worlds for Object-oriented programming in Community colleges
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI), Wanda Dann, William Taylor, Eric Howd, and Barbara Moskal.
CCLI Proof of Concept (now Level 1) 0126833
This grant is to developm curricular materials for the teaching with Alice in pre-CS1.- Title: Decreasing Attrition Using Animated Virtual Worlds
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- Team: Stephen Cooper (PI) and Wanda Dann.