Research Opportunity (Louisiana) - 9-12 Computer Science Teacher

Do you want to:

✨Help your students learn to program responsibly and effectively with AI?

🔍📊 Contribute to ground-breaking research that will have a lasting impact?

💡Learn evidence-based practices for teaching programming with AI?

👦🏻👩🏻👧🏾 Be part of a professional learning community of teachers and researchers shaping CS education?

💲Receive an annual incentive for participation?

If you teach high school computer science in northeastern Louisiana, we invite you to express interest in participating in a research study.

We are conducting a research study focused on the knowledge and skills students need in order to successfully write computer programs with AI (that is, AI pair programming). Your participation will make an important contribution to education research as we determine how to design AI pair programming experiences that are most beneficial to students. You do not need to have any experience with or knowledge about AI to participate.

Teachers who participate in this study will learn about and then implement AI pair programming in their classroom.

If you are chosen to participate in this study, you will:

• Attend a one-day in-person professional development meeting where we prepare to implement AI pair programming (summer 2026)

• Implement AI pair programming in your computer science class(es) (fall 2026)

• Review findings and then attend a virtual meeting to help us interpret the findings (November 2026 and November 2027)

• Attend a virtual meeting to help us update the student and teacher materials (January 2027 and January 2028)

Please note that dates are tentative. We estimate that your total time commitment will be about 35 hours, with most of that time in the first year. We will offer participants yearly incentives; the incentive for full participation over three years will total approximately $1450.

If you are interested in participating, please complete our brief form.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact Dr. Julie M. Smith at julie@csedresearch.org.

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant #2524429. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.