1/6/20-3/31/22 PIs: Ivon Arroyo University of Massachusetts Amherst Award Details The role of embodiment (e.g., the use of both fine-grained and gross motor gestures) in mathematics learning for young students […]
Category Archives: CAREER
CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots
6/1/20-5/31/25 PIs: Heather Pon-Barry Mount Holyoke College Award Details The activities in this Faculty Early Career Development project are rooted in a social educational robot that collaborates with students in […]
CAREER: Improving Adaptive Decision Making in Interactive Learning Environments
3/1/17-2/28/22 PIs: Min Chi North Carolina State University Award Details Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) hold great promise for improving student performance in STEM education. While, traditionally, such systems have focused […]
CAREER: Intelligent Representations: How to Blend Physical and Virtual Representations by Adapting to the Individual Student’s Needs in Real Time
7/1/17-6/30/22 PIs: Martina Rau University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details Adaptive educational technologies can much improve students’ learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains. A particular strength of these […]
CAREER: Designing a New Nexus: Examining the Social Construction of Electronics and Computing Toolkits to Broaden Participation and Deepen Learning
8/1/16-10/31/19 PI: Kylie Peppler Indiana University Award Details The persistently lopsided gender makeup of computer and information science programs in US universities and colleges suggests that the gender gap in […]
CAREER: Constructing Modern and Inclusive Trajectories for Computer Science Learning
PI: R. Benjamin Shapiro University of Colorado at Boulder Award Details Tufts University proposes a CAREER award that will investigate new ways of teaching computer science to middle- and high-school […]
CAREER: DataSketch: Exploring Computational Data Visualization in the Middle Grades
7/01/2016-6/30/2019 PI: Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde Tufts University Award Details Increasingly, the data visualizations used in contemporary science and media move beyond conventional graphs or diagrams to use problem-specific imagery and computational […]