Cooperative Agreement AIDOAAA1500064

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 Project Grant award for $269,920 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of community-based tools to enhance students' self-regulated learning of parallel programming. The project will focus on engaging students in metacognitive processes to improve their learning of parallel programming concepts. Key activities include developing a...

This NSF STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), focuses on developing an innovative approach called TEEM (Teaching to Empower) to engage students in learning analytics. The $305,953 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will integrate data science and data literacy education at the undergraduate level. Key activities include: Design-based research on active-learning analytics activities in data science courses to...

This $300,000 two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University to develop a "Professional Informatics" (Pro-I) system using classroom sensing technologies. The goal is to provide instructors personalized feedback on their teaching practices to help create more equitable learning experiences, especially to increase underrepresented student participation in STEM fields. The project will...

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 Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Cornell University to develop improved evaluation concepts and technologies for large language models (LLMs). The project aims to discover a taxonomy of "evaluation concepts" that can assess LLM responses for criteria like factuality, level of detail, and alignment with user needs. It will then develop customized reward...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $196,500 to Purdue University to develop and optimize a digital learning environment called CourseMirror. The project aims to enhance student learning and engagement in large lecture STEM courses by using natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to prompt and scaffold students to create in-depth reflections on their learning experiences. The...

This $850,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in developing mixed reality participatory simulations to support complex systems learning. Over three years, MIT will design two mixed reality simulations using augmented and virtual reality headsets that allow classroom groups of students to collaboratively engage with system of systems models. Each student group will take on roles like...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $161,369 to Lehigh University to develop "META-PARTNER," an adaptive AI-assisted self-regulated learning (SRL) solution. The project aims to promote AI education by making problem-solving platforms more accessible and engaging for learners developing self-regulation skills. META-PARTNER will be integrated into the...