MindTrust

The purpose of this project is to create a generative artificial intelligence (gen-AI) enhanced authoring tool for scenario-based assessments (SBAs). SBAs place knowledge and skills into a scenario or practical context so that test-takers can be both observers of and active participants in their own performance, building on a body of IES funded investments in developing and validating SBAs.  This creates the opportunity for a reflective, metacognitive, and self-regulatory loop that enables ...

Pre-algebra concepts are a particular barrier to student proficiency in middle and high school mathematics and engagement in advanced STEM courses. New methods are needed to engage students and provide opportunities for collaborative learning. This project will fully develop a virtual reality (VR) escape room for middle and high school topics in algebra, to engage groups of students in solving a series of challenges to "escape" a locked room through collaborative, multi-modal, and problem-ba...

The project team will develop a prototype of a virtual reality (VR) escape room for middle and high school biology to engage students in a problem-based, interactive, multi-modal collaborative learning environment.