Project Grant U351D140037

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...

This $323,388 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to examine how smart technological environments can be optimized to augment collective learning and creativity. The research aims to investigate the parameters that drive group-directed learning in three key areas: cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The project involves large-scale...

The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Denver $898,326 under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) on September 15, 2025, to develop and evaluate two artificial intelligence systems for assessing and nurturing student creativity in K-12 learning environments. The project delivers OCSAI Prime, a task-agnostic creativity assessment model using supervised fine-tuning to evaluate originality and appropriateness across diverse creative challenges, and Creativity Companion, an...

This $249,960 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance computer science education. The project, led by North Carolina State University in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Massachusetts, aims to provide...

Teachers College Columbia University was awarded a $641,278 project grant from the National Science Foundation on September 1, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2025. The grant was awarded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a technological framework for fostering collaboration between novice makers and mentors/peers. The framework aims to link inexperienced creators with others who can offer guidance and feedback as they learn new skills. This project supports...

This $324,986 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to study the complex help resource landscape available to students in computing courses and how students navigate this landscape. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CHARACTERIZING AND EMPOWERING STUDENT SUCCESS WHEN TRAVERSING THE ACADEMIC HELP LANDSCAPE," has three primary goals: 1) characterize the help resource...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) project grant award of $365,905 to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) aims to enhance the CASELET tool, a scalable case-based learning platform, to improve data science problem-solving competency among graduate students. The project will augment CASELET with new features, leveraging large language models, machine learning, and data analytics to scale up the...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $299,623 to the University of Florida (UF) and its subgrantee, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), to develop a machine learning-powered tool called MathCollaborate. This tool aims to support mathematics teachers in orchestrating productive collaborative learning activities for their students. The...

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 $247,739 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports the development and evaluation of a Comprehensive Personalized Programming Practice Environment (C-3PE) that utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance computer science education. The project, led by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Massachusetts, and North Carolina State University, aims to provide...