Paulo Carvalho

Because of increased capabilities for collecting and analyzing education data, the field has new opportunities for research-based, data-driven improvements in education activities. However, education practitioners have not been fully able to leverage these developments and data to inform large scale improvements in the field. In this program, trainers will prepare education practitioners to use established and emerging data science methods with an emphasis on statistical thinking and computa...

In this project, researchers will conduct design-based research with students, parents, and teachers to develop a mobile data-optimized tutoring system to promote deliberate math practice for middle-school students, combined with a new system for parent-student motivational nudges to encourage parents to support their children in doing homework. The research team will optimize units from the Mathtutor platform-a comprehensive web-based tutoring system for middle-school mathematics-and specif...