EduIDEAtor: An AI-Powered Project Idea Generator for Data Science Education
- This thesis tackles a common bottleneck in data-science courses: students struggle
to turn a broad interest into a focused, workable project idea. This thesis set out to
design and evaluate a compact assistant—EduIDEAtor—that makes this first mile
simpler and more intentional. The tool uses a text-first interface with plain inputs,
a small set of clearly different directions, and quick, reversible edits so students can
steer ideas without losing momentum. After building and iterating the web appli-
cation, The thesis evaluated how students experienced it and how it compared with
familiar, non-AI brainstorming. The findings are consistent: navigation and input
clarity were strong; students felt more able to generate and shape ideas; overall sat-
isfaction and willingness to continue using the tool were high. Two practical refine-This thesis tackles a common bottleneck in data-science courses: students struggle
to turn a broad interest into a focused, workable project idea. This thesis set out to
design and evaluate a compact assistant—EduIDEAtor—that makes this first mile
simpler and more intentional. The tool uses a text-first interface with plain inputs,
a small set of clearly different directions, and quick, reversible edits so students can
steer ideas without losing momentum. After building and iterating the web appli-
cation, The thesis evaluated how students experienced it and how it compared with
familiar, non-AI brainstorming. The findings are consistent: navigation and input
clarity were strong; students felt more able to generate and shape ideas; overall sat-
isfaction and willingness to continue using the tool were high. Two practical refine-
ments emerged—make back navigation clearly visible and give users finer control
over how broad or specific the suggestions are both achievable without changing
the core design. The contribution is a concrete pattern for first-mile ideation and a
set of actionable guidelines for course-level adoption.…

