Janet Jiang

About Me

I am a senior at Duke University, advised by Prof. Kristin Stephens-Martinez.
I am interested in Computing Education Research (CER) and applied to Computer Science Ph.D. programs in Fall 2024. During my graduate studies, I hope to design culturally relevant pedagogy, learning technologies, and curriculum that are sustainable in larger courses.

I successfully defended my honors thesis, which studied the relationships between student modality, discussion, and learning from peer instruction in a hybrid computing course, in November 2024. I will be graduating with the highest distinction in May 2025.

I am currently working on two research projects. The first examines how an ecological belonging intervention impacts CS1 students' exam performance, sense of belonging, self-efficacy, engagement in course activities, and persistence in the major. The second evaluates whether the context of a programming problem can trigger stereotype threats in introductory programmers and how it impacts students' performance.