8/1/19-7/31/21 PI: Janice Gobert Rutgers University New Brunswick Award Details Teachers are often frustrated because large-scale assessment data are neither timely nor adequate to understand students’ needs so they can […]
Category Archives: EAGER
EAGER: Comprehension Assessment via Spoken Dialog
8/1/19-7/31/20 PI: Wayne Ward University of Colorado at Boulder Award Details My Science Tutor (MyST) is an intelligent virtual tutor for elementary school students that has been developed over the […]
EAGER: Mixed Reality for Improved Science Reading Comprehension
8/15/19-7/31/20 PI: Len Annetta East Carolina University Award Details This EArly grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) is a partnership between East Carolina University (ECU), Spark Plug Games, Cumberland County Schools, […]
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Automated Instruction Assistant for Argumentative Essays
9/1/18-8/31/20 PI: Rebecca Passonneau Pennsylvania State Univ University Park Award Details Development of students’ writing skills promotes critical thinking across disciplines, and professional success. Yet the past decade of the […]
EAGER: Discussion Tracker: Development of Human Language Technologies to Improve the Teaching of Collaborative Argumentation in High School English Classrooms
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: Amanda Godley, Diane Litman University of Pittsburgh Award Details Collaborative argumentation – the building of evidence-based, reasoned knowledge and solutions through dialogue – is essential to individual learning […]
CHS:EAGER:Aiding Reasoning about Correlation and Causation
4/1/19-3/31/21 PI: Francesco Cafaro Clark University Award Details People are increasingly exposed to data and datasets in everyday life, in domains from health and science to news and policy. This […]
Signing Avatars & Immersive Learning (SAIL): Development and Testing of a Novel Embodied Learning Environment
8/1/18-7/31/20 PIs: Lorna Quandt, Melissa Malzkuhn Gallaudet University Award Details Improved resources for learning American Sign Language (ASL) are in high demand. Traditional educational materials for ASL tend to include […]
EAGER: Leveraging Behavioral and Physiological Feedback in the Design of Affect-Sensitive Distance Learning
9/1/18-8/31/20 PIs: Lauren Wilcox, Elizabeth DiSalvo, David Joyner, Thomas Ploetz Georgia Tech Research Corporation Award Details As the world workforce increasingly pursues technology-focused careers, we see more technology learning environments […]
EAGER: Making with Understanding
9/01/2017-8/31/2019 PI: Bertrand Schneider Harvard University Award Details There is a new cultural movement where everyday people tinker with concepts in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), simply for the purpose […]
EAGER: Developing Teaching Assistant Expertise with a Sensor-Based Learning System
9/01/2017-8/31/2019 PI: Amy Ogan, John Zimmerman Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details While a college degree is essential for many jobs or career paths, many college students receive a less than ideal […]