SPLICE Mini-Grants Program

Both the original NSF grant and the current NSF grant include funding for SPLICE to provide mini-grants (typically, $5,000-$20,000) to our collaborators to do work that advances SPLICE priorities.

Below is information on prior and ongoing mini-grant projects.

Mini-Grant Projects

Runestone Anonymous Data Proposal

Brad Miller (Runestone Interactive)
Proposals: Part 1 and Part 2

Outcomes: Dataset 1 (Link pending)

Dataset 2 (Link pending)

Integration of Database Query Analyzer (DBQA) with Mastery Grids

Ryan Hardt (University of St. Thomas)
Read Proposal

Outcomes: DBQA SQL worked examples collection in SPLICE catalog (URL pending)

Akhuseyinoglu, K., Hardt, R., Barria-Pineda, J., Brusilovsky, P., Pollari-Malmi, K., Sirkiä, T., and Malmi, L. (2022). A Study of Worked Examples for SQL Programming. In: Proceedings of 2022 Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE’22.

ARTCE: the Archival Repository of Tools for Computing Education

Jeremiah Blanchard (University of Florida) and John R. Hott (University of Virginia)
Read Proposal

Outcomes: ARTCE Prototype System

LearnSphere Workflow Components Education

Paulo Carvalho and Michael Asher (Carnegie Mellon University)
Read Proposal

Outcomes: GitHub Repository: extract-resource-use

Clustering and Comparing Students’ Interactions with an eTextbook

Mohammed Farghally (Virginia Tech)
Read Proposal

Outcomes: Sapkota, J. (2025). Categorizing and Comparing Students' Interactions in eTextbooks (Masters Thesis). Virginia Tech.

Sapkota, J., Farghally, M., Mohammed, M., and Shaffer, C. A. (2025). Categorizing and Comparing Students' Interactions in eTextbooks. In: Proceedings of 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE).

PromptSnap: Community Standards and Datasets for Natural Language Programming Assessment

David H. Smith IV (Virginia Tech)
Read Proposal

Outcomes: Project is currently ongoing.