Federal Project Grant Award Summary

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $499,988 to the University of Miami on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for collaborative research titled "Phase I CAMEL-CN: ALTA-CN: AI-Powered Learning by Teaching for Algebraic Reasoning Through Collaborative Networks." The project, which runs through June 30, 2029, will create research-ready datasets from millions of interactions between middle school students and artificial intelligence pedagogical agents. The deliverables include large-scale, well-documented, and AI-ready datasets mapped to validated mathematics assessment outcomes, leveraging an established digital learning platform serving over 60,000 middle school students nationwide and containing over 3 million student-AI learning-by-teaching interactions and 30 million learning engagement events.

The project advances national research infrastructure by connecting rich records of student engagement and learning outcomes to high-stakes mathematics assessments at the middle school level. The datasets will be disseminated to support future research on mathematics teaching and learning through the novel "learning-by-teaching" approach, where students act as active instructors articulating mathematical reasoning to AI agents. This initiative is grounded in cognitive science research and positioned to generate actionable insights for improving AI-powered personalized digital mathematics learning. No subawards are planned for this award.