Steven Ritter

In this project, the researchers will develop and pilot test a classroom orchestration tool running on mixed-reality smart glasses to provide real-time awareness and decision support to middle school mathematics teachers. The new tool, Lumilo 2, will operate with and build upon the researchers' prior IES-funded work developing intelligent tutoring software (ITS) to provide personalized and adaptive guidance to students as they engage in complex problem-solving practice (R305A180301, R305A210...

There is an urgent need to improve mathematics outcomes in the United States. Mathematics often acts as a gateway to overall academic success. The failure of students to succeed in mathematics at the middle and high school level has a strong economic impact on the country, by one estimate reducing US GDP by as much as 3.5 percent annually. One barrier to improving outcomes in mathematics is that the diversity of students, teachers, and school settings makes it difficult to clearly understand...

In this project, the research team will iteratively develop and study MARACAS (Math and Reading Acquisition Co-Adaptive System), a set of individualized reading supports for students embedded within an adaptive mathematics learning system (MATHia) and associated teacher application (LiveLab). Teachers face significant barriers in supporting the needs of middle school students with reading difficulties (RD) when learning to solve mathematics problems. To address this need, MARACAS will be dev...