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Research interests
Research Expertise:
Educational Robotics | Computer Science Education | Effective Systems for Learning at Scale (MOOCs) | Artificial Intelligence | Robotics | Human-Computer Interaction | Intelligent Software Agents
My most recent work is in two areas: the development and evaluation of methods to introduce novices to Computer Science & Computational Thinking using Robotics and Effective Systems for Learning at Scale (MOOCs). I have received grants to pursue this work from a wide variety of sources including Google, iRobot, the National Science Foundation, and the Institute for Personal Robots in Education.
Honors and Awards:
Rowan University Academic Advising Wall of Fame 2016
Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Rowan University 2013
Best Paper Award, CCSCE 2009
Member of:
ACM (Senior Member)
IEEE (Senior Member)
UPE CS Honor Society
Education/Academic qualification
Master of Science, Master, Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy, doctorate, Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor, University of Pennsylvania
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Rowan University Women in CS Club
Kay, J. (PI)
National Center for Women Information Technology
7/1/16 → 12/31/16
Project: Other project
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Peer GradingWithout Protest: The SPARKApproach to Summative Peer Assessment
Kay, J. S., Feb 22 2022, SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 119-125 7 p. (SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education; vol. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Apples to apples: Differences in viewer retention when longer content is chopped into smaller bites
Kay, J. S., Lambe, C., Nolan, T. J., Grello, T. M. & Breitzman, A., Jun 24 2019, Proceedings of the 6th 2019 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, (Proceedings of the 6th 2019 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L@S 2019).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The Distributed Esteemed Endorser Review: A novel approach to participant assessment in MOOCs
Kay, J. S., Nolan, T. J. & Grello, T. M., Apr 25 2016, L@S 2016 - Proceedings of the 3rd 2016 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 157-160 4 p. (L@S 2016 - Proceedings of the 3rd 2016 ACM Conference on Learning at Scale).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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CS professional development MOOCs
Mindell, E., Brennan, K., Britton, G., Kay, J. S. & Rosato, J., 2014, p. 369-370. 2 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Sneaking in through the back door: Introducing K-12 teachers to robot programming
Kay, J. S., Engelman, S., Moss, J. G. & McKlin, T., 2014, p. 499-504. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Open Access20 Scopus citations