Project Grant 2020ZBBX0015

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program, formerly known as Education and Human Resources, will fund the development of data management training and support resources for STEM research laboratories. Totaling $203,613, the award will support a two-phase project beginning in September 2022 through August 2025 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the initial research phase, the team will adapt an evidence-based communication approach used...

This Project Grant award of $46,976 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports the development of a comprehensive framework to ensure the principled use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in data-intensive education research. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: A novel web-based assessment tool that leverages responsible AI techniques to detect potential risks within...

This three-year, $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, operating under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will develop tools to analyze process data from computer-based educational assessments and adaptive designs for testing and learning. The Columbia University researchers will focus on statistical learning methods to understand students' cognitive processes using log file data...

This five-year, $1,049,958 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of an Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI) at Carnegie Mellon University. EASI aims to lower barriers for conducting randomized experiments comparing alternative digital learning experiences and analyzing resulting data to rapidly improve educational resources. Specifically, the infrastructure will support 1) design of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) project grant award of $365,905 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) aims to enhance the CASELET tool, a scalable case-based learning platform, to improve data science problem-solving competency among graduate students. The project will augment CASELET with new features, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and data analytics to scale up the...

This three-year, $350,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a knowledge platform and related tools to bridge the gap between visualization research and design practice. Specifically, the Trustees of Boston College will receive funding to build a comprehensive online framework for improving access to and learning about effective visualization design principles. This framework will consolidate existing...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $109,008 to the Broward Education Foundation, Inc. to support a collaborative research partnership between Digital Promise, Looking Glass Ventures, Data Science 4 Everyone, and four school districts across four states. The goal of the project is to develop practical and scalable pathways for integrating data science instruction with computational thinking...

This Project Grant award, provided under the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), seeks to co-design an AI-based solution for collecting and analyzing behavior data to support coordinated care for children with autism spectrum disorder (CWA). The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the prime awardee, will partner with community stakeholders in a pilot study in San Antonio, TX to develop an AI-augmented platform for CWA...

This $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of a novel AI-powered student support system to improve metacognitive calibration skills at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025. The project aims to research methods for enhancing students' ability to accurately estimate their own level of knowledge using short, personalized training exercises delivered through a decentralized AI framework....

This $324,986 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to study the complex help resource landscape available to students in computing courses and how students navigate this landscape. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CHARACTERIZING AND EMPOWERING STUDENT SUCCESS WHEN TRAVERSING THE ACADEMIC HELP LANDSCAPE," has three primary goals: 1) characterize the help resource...