This $200,000 Project Grant, awarded on September 15, 2023 by the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program (CFDA 47.076), supports research to develop a community-inclusive AI chatbot that will help K-12 STEM teachers create more culturally relevant and universally designed learning activities and environments.
The project will convene focus groups to elicit training data for the AI chatbot, adopting a community-based participatory action research approach. This will enable the chatbot to incorporate community knowledge and cultural nuances that are often missing from large language model training corpora. The goal is to increase teacher capacity to make STEM education more inclusive and support STEM career pathways for underrepresented learners. A beta-level chatbot will be provided to teachers by the end of the one-year project period for further research and development.
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