Works (49)
Updated: August 26th, 2024 08:18
2024 article
Investigating Academic Confidence, Workload Stress, and Performance in a BlendFlex Computer Science Course
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2024 CONFERENCE INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, VOL 1, ITICSE 2024, pp. 583–589.
author keywords: Blended Learning; Blended-Flexible; BlendFlex; CS1; Academic Workload Stress; Academic Confidence; Student Performance
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 8, 2024
2023 article
Assessment of Self-Identified Learning Struggles in CS2 Programming Assignments
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2023 CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, ITICSE 2023, VOL 1, pp. 264–270.
author keywords: CS2; CS Education Research; Self-Regulated Learning
TL;DR:
Through coding and analysis, it is found that while a majority of students encounter struggles with time management and debugging of failing tests, students tend to emphasize wanting to improve their time management skills in future coding assignments.
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open access via dl.acm.org (publisher PDF)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 1, 2023
2023 article
Exploring Students' Perceptions and Engagement in Hybrid Flexible Courses
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TENTH ACM CONFERENCE ON LEARNING @ SCALE, L@S 2023, pp. 110–119.
author keywords: HyFlex; Hybrid Flexible; Student Engagement; Student Performance
TL;DR:
Investigation of students' perceptions about the availability of learning resources relates to their course engagement and performance in a HyFlex learning environment suggests utilizing some in-person or online synchronous modalities in conjunction with the student-preferred asynchronous options leads to improved course outcomes for both student engagement and course performance.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 19, 2023
2022 conference paper
Automating Personalized Feedback to Improve Students' Persistence in Computing
Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2.
TL;DR:
This workshop will reduce the burden of giving students personalized feedback by: 1) giving instructors empirically validated email templates to use in their own courses, and 2) guiding faculty how to send emails at-scale.
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Source: ORCID
Added: July 20, 2022
2022 conference paper
Gender, Self-Assessment, and Persistence in Computing: How gender differences in self-assessed ability reduce women’s persistence in computer science
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.1.
TL;DR:
This research furthers the understanding of why gender differences exist in self-assessments of computing ability and how these differences can contribute to gender disparities in computing persistence and draws attention to the importance of feedback in computing courses.
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Source: ORCID
Added: August 26, 2022
2022 article
Increasing Students' Persistence in Computer Science through a Lightweight Scalable Intervention
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 27TH ACM CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, ITICSE 2022, VOL 1, pp. 526–532.
author keywords: Positive Feedback; Introductory Computer Science; Persistence in Computing; Self-Assessment of Computing Ability
TL;DR:
This study investigates the effect of a lightweight, scalable intervention where students received personalized, contextualized feedback from their instructors after two major assignments during the semester, and demonstrates that providing students' sense of belonging, professional role confidence, and the likelihood of stating an intention to pursue a major in computer science are improved.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
5. Gender Equality
(Web of Science)
10. Reduced Inequalities
(Web of Science)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 20, 2022
2021 conference paper
Finding Video-watching Behavior Patterns in a Flipped CS1 Course
SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 768–774.
Event: 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
TL;DR:
How regular video watching can be a key learning strategy for some but not all students in a flipped CS1 course is discussed, where some students can achieve good learning outcomes with minimal watching of the course videos.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2021 conference paper
Increasing Women's Persistence in Computer Science by Decreasing Gendered Self-Assessments of Computing Ability
Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1.
TL;DR:
A mediation analysis found evidence for the proposed causal path; namely, that the intervention increased the women's self-assessments of computing ability, which then increased their intentions to persist in computing.
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Source: ORCID
Added: January 7, 2022
2021 conference paper
Increasing Women’s Persistence in Computer Science by Decreasing Gendered Self-Assessments of Computing Ability
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. Presented at the 2021 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education.
Event: 2021 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2021 conference paper
STARS Ignite: A Program for Supporting Professors in Organizing Student Cohorts for Conferences
SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 1349.
Event: 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
TL;DR:
It is argued that leading a cohort of faculty/staff and students who attend a conference with the shared goal of broadening participation can provide lasting benefits for computing departments.
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Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2021 conference paper
Strategies for Authentic Assessments of Mastery in CS Courses
SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 1361.
Event: 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
TL;DR:
This Birds-of-a-Feather session will provide a forum for conversations around assessment of student mastery and expand the collective understanding of how authentic assessments can be used in CS courses and share ideas to inform research and practice toward grading for equity.
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Sources: NC State University Libraries, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2020 conference paper
A Lightweight Intervention to Decrease Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching
2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT). Presented at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT).
Event: 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)
TL;DR:
An intervention in which a woman professor of a CS1 class for non-majors gave students in the intervention condition additional, positive exam feedback via email would increase students' perceptions of the professor's likability, which would increase her SETs, and this intervention increased top-performing students' ratings of the professors' likability.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality
(Web of Science)
10. Reduced Inequalities
(Web of Science)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 5, 2021
2020 conference paper
Toward Finding Online Activity Patterns in a Flipped Programming Course
Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 1345.
Event: at New York, NY, USA
author keywords: CS1; flipped classroom; online student behavior; online video; activity patterns
TL;DR:
It is found that clustering students based on how much of the online lecture videos they watched allows us to find significant differences in the average test scores of each cluster.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: April 11, 2020
2020 conference paper
Writing Effective Autograded Exercises Using Bloom's Taxonomy
2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings.
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: September 8, 2020
2019 report
A Lightweight Intervention to Decrease Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching (Full Version)
(Technical Report No. TR-2019-9). Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2019 conference paper
CADApps: MATLAB Apps for Core Courses in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Curricula
ASEE-SE Annual Conference. https://sites.asee.org/se/wp-content/uploads/sites/56/2021/04/2019ASEESE28.pdf
Source: ORCID
Added: January 7, 2022
2019 conference paper
CADApps: MATLAB Apps for Core Courses in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Curricula
Proceedings of the ASEE-SE 2019. Presented at the American Society for Engineering Education-Southeast 2019 Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC.
Event: American Society for Engineering Education-Southeast 2019 Annual Conference at Raleigh, NC on March 10-12, 2019
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2019 conference paper
STARS Computing Corps IGNITE Program
Proceedings of the Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference 2019. Presented at the RESPECT Conference 2019 (ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)), Minneapolis, MN.
Event: RESPECT Conference 2019 (ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)) at Minneapolis, MN on February 27, 2019
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 16, 2021
2019 conference paper
Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Write Effective Programming Questions for Autograding Tools
Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - SIGCSE '19.
TL;DR:
Examples of the developed auto-graded programming problems based on Bloom's Taxonomy and the results of a pilot study in a CS-1 non-majors course are presented.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: January 23, 2020
2018 article
Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech
SIGCSE'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 49TH ACM TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, pp. 672–673.
TL;DR:
This panel raises the question "what are the authors doing in undergraduate programs to reduce the 'Mad Men', 'Brogrammer' culture' she describes that is increasingly being reported in the popular press".
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2019
2018 conference paper
Exam Wrappers and Grades with Context
Presented at the NCSU DELTA Summer Shorts in Instructional Technologies Workshops, Raleigh, NC.
Event: NCSU DELTA Summer Shorts in Instructional Technologies Workshops at Raleigh, NC
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: March 29, 2021
2018 article
Two-Stage Programming Projects: Individual Work Followed by Peer Collaboration
SIGCSE'18: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 49TH ACM TECHNICAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, pp. 479–484.
author keywords: CS1; Two-Stage Project; Collaborative Project; Peer Collaboration
TL;DR:
This work proposes and studies a special project format named two-stage project in an introductory computer science course that tends to improve student understanding of course learning objectives and studies students' perceptions and experiences with two- stage projects.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education
(Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2019
2017 conference paper
The Value of Organized Study Groups in Large Classes
Battestilli, L., & Le, T. (2017, April 3). Presented at the NCSU Teaching and Learning Symposium, McKimmon Conference and Training Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
Event: NCSU Teaching and Learning Symposium at McKimmon Conference and Training Center, NC State University, Raleigh, NC on April 3, 2017
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2017 report
Two-stage Programming Projects: Individual Work Followed by Peer Collaboration
(Technical Report No. TR-2017-3). Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2016 conference paper
TH!NK: A Framework to Assess and Support Critical and Creative Thinking
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings. Presented at the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Event: 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition at New Orleans, Louisiana on June 26, 2016
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 18, 2021
2014 conference paper
CAD Apps: Computer aided design applications for the MAE curriculum
Workshop presented at the Annual MathWorks Curriculum Conference.
Event: Annual MathWorks Curriculum Conference
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2014 journal article
Performance evaluation of an OBS network as a IPP/M/W/W network
APPLIED MATHEMATICAL MODELLING, 39(3-4), 965–981.
author keywords: Optical Burst Switched network; Performance evaluation; Interrupted Poison Process; Loss nodes
TL;DR:
An analytical method for calculating the burst loss probabilities in a tandem Optical Burst Switched network with a bursty arrival process with results which are closer to simulation results than a Poisson arrival process is developed.
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Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018
2014 conference paper
SHE++ Documentary Screening and Discussion
Panel presented at the NCSU Women In Computer Science, (WiCS) program, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.
Event: NCSU Women In Computer Science, (WiCS) program at NC State University, Raleigh, NC
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2011 conference paper
High-performing scale-out solution for deep packet processing via adaptive load-balancing
2011 18th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN). Presented at the Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN).
Event: Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)
TL;DR:
A scale-out solution for deep packet processing (DPP) appliances that uses a standard Ethernet switch in combination with a load balancing controller, which is beneficial for load-balancing at high data rates because state is kept for only the redirected connections.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2021
2010 conference paper
Performance Evaluation of an OBS Network as a TandemNetwork of IPP/M/W/W Nodes
Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling(APARM). Presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling(APARM), Wellington, New Zealand.
Event: 4th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling(APARM) at Wellington, New Zealand on December 2-4, 2010
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2009 journal article
Burst lost probabilities in a queuing network with simultaneous resource possession: a single-node decomposition approach
IET Communications, 3(3), 441–453.
TL;DR:
A fast single-node decomposition algorithm is developed to compute the blocking probabilities in the network and extends the popular link-decomposition method from teletraffic theory by allowing dynamic simultaneous link possession.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2009 chapter
ERONs: Dynamic lightpath networking via overlay control of static optical connections
In 2009 International Conference On Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) (p. 1). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2009 journal article
Edge-Reconfigurable Optical Networks (ERONs): Rationale, Network Design, and Evaluation
Journal of Lightwave Technology, 27(12), 1837–1845.
Contributors: n , G. Karmous-Edwards n, D. Reeves n, G. Rouskas n , P. Vegesna n & A. Vishwanath n
author keywords: Dynamic circuits; network design; optical networks
TL;DR:
An algorithm for creating an ERON from an existing topology of static lightpaths is developed, and simulation results that quantify the benefits of ERONs, in terms of the number of light Paths that are needed when compared to a static configuration of independent and dedicated circuits are presented.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018
2008 conference paper
Advance Reservation and Dynamic Scheduling of Point to Multipoint Lightpaths
2008 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies. Presented at the 2008 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET).
Event: 2008 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET)
TL;DR:
This paper introduces the concept of advance reservation of lightpaths for a certain request characterized by some source and multiple destinations and also the time when network resources are demanded and exemplifies the fact that advance reservation outruns on-demand reservation as far as the blocking probability is concerned.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2021
2008 journal article
Dynamic scheduling of network resources with advance reservations in optical grids
International Journal of Network Management, 18(2), 79–105.
TL;DR:
This paper evaluated and compared several algorithms for dynamic scheduling of lightpaths using a flexible advance reservation model to find the best scheduling policy for a grid network resource manager that improves network utilization and minimizes blocking.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2020
2007 journal article
A performance study on optical burst switched networks: the ring topology
Photonic Network Communications, 14(1), 63–70.
author keywords: optical burst switched networks; performance study
TL;DR:
This paper proposes using multiple receivers or fiber delay lines (FDL) in front of the receivers in order to reduce the receiver blocking probability and indicates that receiver blocking can be almost eliminated by using as little as three receivers and can be reduced by using a FDL of small length.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2020
2007 article proceedings
EnLIGHTened Computing: An architecture for co-allocating network, compute, and other grid resources for high-end applications
Presented at the 2007 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies.
Event: 2007 International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies
TL;DR:
A prototype of this architectural framework on a national-scale testbed implementation has been used to demonstrate a small number of applications and a set of changes for the middleware have been laid out and are being implemented.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 16, 2021
2007 article proceedings
G-lambda and EnLIGHTened: Wrapped In Middleware Co-allocating Compute and Network Resources Across Japan and the US
Presented at the 1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications.
Event: 1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications
TL;DR:
This paper describes innovative architectures and techniques for reserving and coordinating highly distributed resources, a capability required for many large scale applications, in the United States and Japan.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: December 16, 2021
2006 chapter
Burst Loss Probabilities in an OBS Network with Dynamic Simultaneous Link Possession
In Advances in Computer Science and Engineering: Texts (pp. 205–225).
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2020
2006 chapter
Grid Networks and Layer 1 Services
In Grid Networks (pp. 217–252).
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2020
2006 report
Grid Optical Burst Switched Networks GOBS
[Technical Memo]. Global Grid Forum, GHPN Group.
Event:
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2006 conference paper
Monitoring and Discovery for EnLIGHTened Computing
Proceedings of IEEE High Capacity Optical Networks’06 Conference. IEEE.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2005 journal article
A performance study of an optical burst switched network with dynamic simultaneous link possession
Computer Networks, 50(2), 219–236.
author keywords: optical burst switching (OBS); optical networks; queueing network; simultaneous resource possession; burst loss probability; decomposition algorithm; traffic model
TL;DR:
A queueing network is developed, which models simultaneous link possession, and the end-to-end burst loss probabilities over a path in the OBS network are calculated, indicating that having a mix of various size bursts can greatly effect the burst loss probability in the network.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018
2004 conference paper
End-To-End Burst Loss Probabilities in an OBS Network with Simultaneous Link Possession
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching, WOBS3.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
2004 journal article
Optical burst switching for the next generation Internet
IEEE Potentials, 23(5), 40–43.
TL;DR:
The main features of an OBS network, its benefits as well as its challenges are described, which efficiently supports the transmission of bursty traffic over an all-optical infrastructure.
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UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
(OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 4, 2021
2003 journal article
An introduction to optical burst switching
IEEE Communications Magazine, 41(8), S10–S15.
TL;DR:
This article summarizes in a systematic way the main OBS design parameters and the solutions that have been proposed in the open literature and shows how the framework achieves high traffic throughput and high resource utilization.
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Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 13, 2020
2002 report
Optical Burst Switching: A Survey
(Technical Report No. TR-2002-10). Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: May 27, 2022
1999 report
Protecting Private Networks From Internet Threats
[Undergraduate Thesis]. Kettering University.
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: June 25, 2022
1995 conference paper
Service Control of a Queueing System with Nonrenewal Arrivals and Phase Type Services
Proceedings of the International Mathematica Symposium. Presented at the International Mathematica Symposium.
Event: International Mathematica Symposium
Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: June 25, 2022
Employment
Updated: May 2nd, 2019 12:10
2012 - present
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Associate Teaching Professor
Computer Science
Education
Updated: May 2nd, 2019 12:12
2002 - 2005
North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Ph.D
Computer Science
Funding History
Funding history based on the linked ORCID record. Updated: December 18th, 2020 09:12
grant
July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
Analysis of a Simple, Low-cost Intervention's Impact on Retention of Women in Computer Science
Directorate for Education & Human Resources
grant
January 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
CUE: Collaborative Research: Effective Peer Teaching Across Computing Pathways
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
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