This Spring semester, Janet Jiang (2024) was awarded a URS Conference Grant to attend and present at the 2024 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
At the Symposium, Janet presented work on the relationships between students' modality, discussion behavior, and class sentiment in a hybrid course where students could self-select their modality for each lecture.
When asked how the conference experience shaped her research goals, Janet described the learning experience: "The questions I received during my poster presentation helped me think critically about what I would change about the study if I had the opportunity to repeat it at a larger scale An example of a change is the phrasing of the mid-semester survey questions. Additionally, I learned more about possible future directions for my work and came up with some other variables I can fold into my analysis."
The symposium validated Janet's goal of attending graduate school. "I found myself really engaged during talks related to accessibility in computing, CS1 tools, etc," Janet described to URS. "And I plan on applying to graduate schools that have faculty who do research in these areas."
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