‘stemeducation’
Investigating the Impact of Metacognitive Supports in MATHia
Aug. 29, 2024—Drawing from our past research in middle school classrooms (Zepeda et al., 2015; Zepeda et al., 2019), this project aims to investigate the impact of supporting middle school students’ metacognitive skills during mathematics learning within the UpGrade/MATHia platform on middle school students’ metacognitive skills, mathematics knowledge, and motivation. In particular, we focus on supporting three...
Advancing Quantum Education by Adaptively Addressing Misconceptions in Virtual Reality
Aug. 29, 2024—Quantum information science (QIS), which uses the laws of quantum physics to process and store information, is expected to broadly impact society through new developments in commerce, governance, privacy, employment, education, and other areas. Unfortunately, QIS is a challenging, interdisciplinary field to learn. The goal of this project is to advance QIS education by using...
Bringing Robotics, Cybersecurity and Computer Science to the Middle School classroom (ROCCEM)
Aug. 14, 2024—The project develops, tests, and iteratively refines a modular middle school curriculum that introduces computer science and cybersecurity simultaneously using primarily hands-on, project-based, engaging material. The curriculum uses NetsBlox, a block-based programming environment and RoboScape Online, a fully programmable and collaborative virtual robotics environment. https://netsblox.org/roccem Core Publications Stein, G., Jean, D., Brady, C., & Lédeczi,...
Math Misconceptions Data Science Competition
Jun. 12, 2024—We are developing annotation schemes to detect potential misconceptions that underlie students’ errors in their math responses and annotating large datasets of students’ math responses. A data science challenge will then invite teams to develop algorithms that automatically detect misconceptions in the responses. These algorithms could then be used in digital learning platforms. Collaborate with...
Leveraging GenAI in CS Education
Jun. 11, 2024—In the age of GenAI and with code generation tools, CS pedagogy is facing new challenges and opportunities. This series of projects aims to investigate the impact of GenAI on students’ learning performance in CS education and develop new pedagogical approaches with GenAI to enhance CS education. Core Publications Huang, Y., Zheng, X., Wang, H.,...
EyeTrans: Understanding and Leveraging Human Cognition to Empower AI models for Programming
Jun. 11, 2024—This project uses multi-modalities including eye tracking and medical imaging to model human cognitive processes in programming activities, and then leverage human cognition to develop automated models and tools to assist automated programming tasks. This series of projects aims to investigate the fundamental cognitive processes in programming and empower the modeling and design of more...