Formula Grant R43DP006743

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $156,000.00 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to develop and refine a bilingual mobile health application called "Iniciando! La Adultez" for Latino young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their Spanish-speaking parents. The app will feature personalized...

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) was awarded a $703,950 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to improve the development of high-quality, free, online interactive mathematics textbooks for calculus and linear algebra courses. The two-year project, which began on June 15, 2024, involves collaboration between AIM, teachers, students, and researchers to create engaging interactive textbook questions that target core mathematical...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $200,000 to Objective ED, Inc. to demonstrate the feasibility of using AI-assisted collaborative strategic reading to improve reading skills for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The key objectives include: (1) defining requirements for modifications to Objective ED's existing AI-based literacy tool "BuddyBooks for Students with...

This $103,868 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the implementation of an authentic inquiry-based laboratory curriculum, called AIM-BIO, at the University of Arizona, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The key goals are to: 1) Develop a professional development program to train teaching assistants (TAs) on how to effectively mentor students in the AIM-BIO curriculum's open-ended scientific inquiry process, and 2)...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (CFDA 93.433) provides $300,000 to Objective ED, Inc. to develop an accessible interactive fiction (AIF) story system to help visually impaired high school students (ages 14-18) improve their financial literacy skills. The key objectives of this 14-month project are to: (1) define requirements for an AIF story within the "Financial Fitness Adventures" system to teach...

This $841,392 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will develop and evaluate a scalable, explainable, teacher-in-the-loop adaptive learning system built on large language models. The project aims to address challenges in traditional adaptive learning systems by leveraging generative AI to automatically generate high-quality learning content and recommendations, while ensuring educators remain central to the instructional process. The...

This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $809,155 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a game-based learning environment and conduct research and evaluation from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to improve probability education for high school students by designing artificial intelligence problem-solving activities within a game. Students will learn probability concepts while exploring AI algorithms...

This five-year, $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of the Experiments as a Service Infrastructure (EASI). EASI aims to lower barriers for conducting randomized experiments comparing alternative digital learning experiences and analyzing resulting data to improve future student outcomes. Specifically, the University of Alabama will develop an infrastructure supporting...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...