Project Description
We are seeking undergraduate research fellows to join our Elementary Computing for All project for 2024. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduate program. Our research project, led by Mark Warschauer, UCI Professor of Education and Informatics, is investigating the implementation of a computer science and environmental literacy curriculum to meet the needs of English language learners and other culturally and linguistically diverse elementary school students. We are working in partnership with Santa Ana Unified School District, Montebello Unified School District, and El Sol Science & Arts Academy. We are seeking research assistants who are capable and interested in working with children, conducting research, analyzing data, and disseminating findings.
Fellows will work for 12 hours per week, starting on January 3, 2024, and ending on June 7, 2024 and will receive a $2000 stipend per academic quarter, with possibilities of applying for an extension into summer 2024 and beyond. Fellows can in addition receive course credit for undergraduate research in Education, Informatics, Language Science, or Psychological Science if they wish.
Responsibilities
Fellows will assist with one or more of the following research activities:
Skills/Experience Needed
Due to the National Science Foundation requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States.
A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required. Attention to detail and reliability are required. Prior coursework in learning and development (e.g., education, psychological science, language science) or STEM (e.g., computer science, informatics, data science, environmental science, environmental studies) is desired but not required.
Desired strengths include a strong interest in promoting diverse children’s learning, interest in teaching coding and/or environmental literacy, good written and spoken English, and interest or experience in STEM research and/or educational research. Access to a car, fluency in Spanish, and prior experience working with children may be helpful but are not required. All training for the duties outlined above will be provided.
Apply
To apply, please send (1) your resume, (2) a copy of your unofficial transcripts, and (3) a cover letter that discusses why you are interested and qualified to be a fellow for this project, your availability for winter 2024, and the names and email addresses of two references, one of whom should be a UCI faculty or staff, to Clare Baek clareb@uci.edu and cc Mark Warschauer markw@uci.edu with a subject line "REU Application" by November 27, 2023. You will be notified within 10 days of that date as to our decision.
We are seeking undergraduate research fellows to join our Elementary Computing for All project for 2024. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduate program. Our research project, led by Mark Warschauer, UCI Professor of Education and Informatics, is investigating the implementation of a computer science and environmental literacy curriculum to meet the needs of English language learners and other culturally and linguistically diverse elementary school students. We are working in partnership with Santa Ana Unified School District, Montebello Unified School District, and El Sol Science & Arts Academy. We are seeking research assistants who are capable and interested in working with children, conducting research, analyzing data, and disseminating findings.
Fellows will work for 12 hours per week, starting on January 3, 2024, and ending on June 7, 2024 and will receive a $2000 stipend per academic quarter, with possibilities of applying for an extension into summer 2024 and beyond. Fellows can in addition receive course credit for undergraduate research in Education, Informatics, Language Science, or Psychological Science if they wish.
Responsibilities
Fellows will assist with one or more of the following research activities:
- Help create content for the curriculum on computational thinking and environmental literacy
- Help with data collection by conducting observations in classrooms
- Help organize, transcribe, and analyze qualitative data from observations and interviews of upper elementary school students learning coding with Scratch and environmental literacy.
- Help organize, transcribe, and analyze qualitative data from meetings and interviews of elementary school teachers about coding and environmental literacy
- Help analyze quantitative data by processing survey data and building models for statistical analysis
- Help with writing and editing conference and journal papers
Skills/Experience Needed
Due to the National Science Foundation requirements, applicants must be U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or permanent residents of the United States.
A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required. Attention to detail and reliability are required. Prior coursework in learning and development (e.g., education, psychological science, language science) or STEM (e.g., computer science, informatics, data science, environmental science, environmental studies) is desired but not required.
Desired strengths include a strong interest in promoting diverse children’s learning, interest in teaching coding and/or environmental literacy, good written and spoken English, and interest or experience in STEM research and/or educational research. Access to a car, fluency in Spanish, and prior experience working with children may be helpful but are not required. All training for the duties outlined above will be provided.
Apply
To apply, please send (1) your resume, (2) a copy of your unofficial transcripts, and (3) a cover letter that discusses why you are interested and qualified to be a fellow for this project, your availability for winter 2024, and the names and email addresses of two references, one of whom should be a UCI faculty or staff, to Clare Baek clareb@uci.edu and cc Mark Warschauer markw@uci.edu with a subject line "REU Application" by November 27, 2023. You will be notified within 10 days of that date as to our decision.