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The project explores the feasibility of building Tiresias, a model-directed system empowering persons with visual impairments to conduct web transactions such as purchasing goods and paying utility bills online using non-visual modalities. Tiresias addresses current information overload problems by delivering relevant content through the coupling of content semantics with model-directed navigatio ...

Sirius Thinking, Ltd., the creative producer of the award-winning children’s educational television series Between the Lions, is proposing a feasibility study of a prototype of a multiple-media early literacy educational tool. This computer-based product, “The Between the Lions Digital Reading Den,” will allow early readers to navigate a user-friendly computer interface to select interacti ...

As the global economic competition for qualified workforce increases, our country’s ability to compete effectively in the global marketplace depends on our school systems’ ability to create a competitive workforce. Recently, there has been an increase in expectation on American schools to perform better than ever before in preparing students to meet rigorous educational standards. Keeping in l ...

Diagnostic assessment is a technique in which a student’s answers to questions are used to identify appropriate further instructional actions, rather than solely to evaluate educational attainment. The technique is difficult to use because the average teacher has difficulty implementing it successfully. We will build an online diagnostic assessment system and use it to offer a unit-level diagnos ...

The proposed research builds upon the work on the Children’s Progress Academic Assessment (CPAA), a computer dynamic assessment in language arts and mathematics for children in pre-kindergarten through second grade. The goal of this project is to develop new assessment technologies that will allow for real-time error analysis of children’s responses that will compliment the CPAA. The error ana ...

The proposed research builds upon the work on the Childrens Progress Academic Assessment a computer dynamic assessment in language arts and mathematics for children in prekindergarten through second grade. The goal of this project is to develop new assessment technologies that will allow for real-time error analysis of childrens responses that will compliment the CPAA. The error analysis will targ ...

The overall goal is to develop a Virtual Learning LaunchPad prototype and to compare the learning by students viewing this prototype with a traditional video lecture. The Virtual Learning LaunchPad will merge six delivery methods to greatly compress delivery time of a complex concept in reproductive science. The technologies incorporated will be: 3-dimensional anatomical reconstructions, step-an ...

Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) has seen explosive growth over the last decade. Immersive VR attempts to give users the sensation of being fully immersed in a synthetic environment by providing them with room sized screens and 3D stereo goggles, and allowing them to interact with life-size worlds. The technology is extremely effective for learning and exploration, and has been widely adopted by t ...

The Tactus Immersive Learning Environment (TILE) is a cost-effective virtual reality (VR) platform that will enable students to participate in simulations tied to core National Science Education Standards. TILE is for use as a supplement to K-12 science curricula, for primary instruction of concepts or for review, for individual or small-group practice. Because TILE will provide real time graphica ...

In prior research and development, the project team developed LiveSchool, an online platform to track student behavior. With this Phase I funding, the team will develop and test a prototype of an administrator dashboard. The dashboard will generate reports on individual student behavior patterns across classes and on the prevalence of behavioral issues across different teachers. The dashboard will ...