Project Grant H327S240013

The National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) awarded a $373,963 project grant to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop an AI-assisted adaptive learning platform for early undergraduate mathematics courses. This 3-year project, titled "Supporting Student Learning and Success in Early Undergraduate Mathematics Courses via AI-Enhanced Education," aims to expand UTSA's existing Adaptive Learning for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Environments...

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 award under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $118,525 to Looking Glass Ventures LLC to research and develop an AI-powered tool for high school math teachers to automatically generate interactive, technology-enhanced assessments. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RAPID: EMPOWERING MATH TEACHERS WITH AN AI TOOL FOR AUTO-GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED ASSESSMENTS", aims to showcase how AI and large...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $900,000 to North Carolina State University to develop innovative, AI-powered online learning environments that promote the learning-by-teaching approach. The project aims to design and empirically evaluate a novel integration of a teachable agent, reinforcement learning, and explainable AI to support students' acquisition of both procedural and conceptual knowledge...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to develop design principles for educational tools powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support personalized learning in STEM education. The 3-year, $113,008 project will create a "CoachBot" AI tool that applies the proposed design principles and test it in computing-focused courses at the University of Michigan and University of Cincinnati. The project intends to...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 will support the development of an AI-enhanced platform to empower K-12 teachers with high-quality and inclusive math instruction. The project aims to tackle challenges in K-12 math education by integrating new AI models to assist teachers in generating personalized lesson materials, providing formative assessment, auto-scoring, and generating diagnostic reports...

This $898,326.00 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Denver will develop two interconnected artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assess and nurture student creativity in K-12 learning environments. The first system, OCSAI Prime, is a task-agnostic creativity assessment model that uses supervised fine-tuning to evaluate both originality and appropriateness across...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education Program (CFDA 47.076) Project Grant award of $250,000 to the University of Virginia aims to develop, implement, and evaluate web-based AI-powered teaching simulation tools that will improve evidence-based mathematics teaching practices. The project will create a suite of open-source simulations to support pre-service teachers in fostering rich mathematical discourse in their classrooms. It will also produce open data sets of mathematical...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program provides $200,000 to support a time-sensitive project that aims to empower teachers to harness the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to create interactive, personalized STEM learning resources. The project team, led by the Regents of the University of Michigan, will partner with WGBH Educational Foundation to develop a teacher-AI...

This Project Grant award of $1,296,683.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support Southern Methodist University's research on using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to personalize mathematics instruction for 7th grade students. The project aims to explore the impacts and opportunities when using GenAI to construct personalized algebra problems that connect to students' interests in areas like sports or video games. The research will...