Patti Smith

The team will fully develop and test the StepWise Virtual Tutor for Algebra I, an online artificial intelligence tutor designed to provide real-time assessments and personalized tutoring for middle and high school students. As a required course, algebra represents a shift from tangible numeric operations to more abstract concepts and thus is an important gatekeeper to academic success in STEM in high school and beyond.

This project team will develop and test a prototype of the StepWise Virtual Tutor, designed to be an artificial intelligence software tutoring program for Algebra I students. The tutor will track students as they answer questions, catch algebraic and arithmetic errors, provides hints, and aggregate reports in an instructor dashboard.