Project Grant H982301510068

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...

Articulate.ai Inc. received a $256,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop adaptive dialog systems as second language learning partners. The grant will fund an innovative effort to integrate state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies into conversational systems for language education. Key deliverables include user-adaptive algorithms and datasets for dialog policy training on language learning tasks. The...

The University of California, Santa Barbara will use a $301,709 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to develop an artificial intelligence framework for transforming online introductory STEM video lectures. The framework will extract gestures and voice from existing instructor-led videos and reconfigure them into agent-based presentations delivered by a diverse set of emotionally and socially sensitive animated on-screen...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program award, with partial funding from the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, provides $1,380,596 to the University of California, Irvine to collaboratively co-design 24 Spanish-English bilingual and culturally relevant interactive e-books with Latino families in California and Michigan. These e-books will leverage artificial intelligence to create conversational agents that...

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 $299,963 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of culturally and linguistically sustaining STEM pedagogies using mixed-reality simulations at the University of West Florida from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to improve undergraduate STEM education students' ability to teach in a culturally and linguistically sustaining way through online modules, focused mentor feedback, and practice teaching with virtual avatars in mixed-reality...

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to prepare science teachers to engage multilingual learners in scientific argumentation through mixed-reality simulations. The key goals are to identify essential elements in teacher-student interactions that help elicit student thinking to improve scientific argumentation among secondary multilingual learners, and to explore the preliminary effects, acceptability, and...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

This $916,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to advance knowledge on how students can learn robust algebra skills. The project, led by North Carolina State University, will develop an innovative "constructive tutee inquiry" technology that uses large language models to engage students in a question-and-answer dialogue to help them build conceptual and procedural connections in algebra. Classroom evaluation studies...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a 3-year, $302,718 collaborative research project titled "Framework for Integrating Technology for Equity (FIT for Equity)". The project aims to engage 24 teachers in co-designing technology-enhanced data literacy lessons that empower underrepresented students to use data to understand and address community-based challenges. The project will produce a repository of...