This three-year, $621,352 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop novel natural language processing and artificial intelligence tools to augment scientific writing instruction. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will build machine learning models for fact-checking student writing, knowledge tracing to measure concept mastery over time, and generating narrative progressions associated...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,000 to Rutgers, The State University to lay the groundwork for new paradigms of responsible design, development, and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered writing tools. The key products and services to be delivered include: Clear and accessible articulations of the research methods and challenges for design-oriented AI as it applies to writing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $175,000 supports research by Calvin University to develop interactive natural language technology to help writers structure and revise documents. The project, funded under NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to create features that can be integrated into word processing applications to assist writers in organizing their thoughts and structuring their writing. The research team will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $400,000 project grant under the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Directorate for STEM Education (IUSE: EDU) program to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) into engineering writing courses. The project aims to develop an engineering writing curriculum, an AI-enabled writing platform, and professional development to help instructors integrate AI writing tools into...
This $305,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development of an AI-powered feedback system for enhancing literacy and creative thinking skills among students in grades 3-8. The project, led by Talk Coaches Inc., aims to transform the English language learning experience by providing real-time, personalized feedback to students to improve their reading...
This $849,799 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) will support research to advance understanding of how to enhance student learning of argumentative writing through artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. The key products to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Development of a personalized argumentative writing tutoring system...
This $271,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to enhance the technical writing skills of Puerto Rican engineering students through an AI-driven feedback system. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HSI PILOT PROJECT: PRACTICE - PERFORMANCE REFINEMENT THROUGH AI CORRECTION IN TECHNICAL WRITING FOR CHEMICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING," will develop and implement an AI-driven system to provide real-time,...
This $349,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support a research project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to investigate how to design and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to support equitable K-12 science education. The project plans to explore the use of multimodal AI to provide automated feedback for formative science assessments, with the goal of generating design principles to develop...
Oklahoma State University was awarded a two-year, $265,955 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084). The grant aims to enhance writing for publication using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technologies. Specifically, the university will develop AI and NLP tools to analyze scholarly writing and provide feedback to authors on structure, flow, clarity, and conformance with...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award provides $749,996 to the University of Florida to develop an innovative artificial intelligence model that can provide feedback on student proofs in proof-oriented mathematics courses. The project aims to improve the proof-writing abilities of undergraduate students by training the AI model to give immediate, iterative, research-based feedback on student proofs. The project involves sub-awards to St. Olaf...