FORAP-packaged projects were deployed in 44 classroom trials across seven universities over four academic years, reaching about 2,000 students¶

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q2 i? Across four academic years, the 14 portfolio projects were used in 44 classroom trials at seven universities with 8 instructors, 22 courses, and about 2,000 students. → Suleiman 2026

Evidence¶

Suleiman 2026¶

Suleiman, A. D., DeWaters, J., Shepherd, D. C., Korkmaz, T., Hussain, F., Liu, Y., & Hou, D. (2026). Adoption-Ready Project-Based Learning for Computing Education: The FORAP Framework and a Multi-Scale Project Portfolio. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11129 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.11129

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Deployment summary from the Classroom Implementation section of this innovative practice paper: the 14 FORAP-packaged projects were each deployed at least once, in "44 classroom trials across seven universities" over four academic years. The section also reports 8 instructors, 22 courses, and about 2,000 students; no effect sizes are reported.

"The 14 projects in our portfolio (Table I) were each deployed at least once and overall used in 44 classroom trials across seven universities, including five in the United States and two in Canada, over four academic years."

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