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From left, Bilal Khan, Mohammad Hasan and Neeta Kantamneni are developing an app called Messages from a Future You, aimed at providing students with targeted, real-time interventions that boost their performance in STEM courses. (Craig Chandler, University Communication and Marketing)
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Toward an AI to Deliver Individualized Just-in-Time Interventions that Enhance Student Performance in STEM Disciplines
Research Team
Principal Investigator: Mohammad Rashedul Hasan
Co-Principal Investigators: Bilal Khan, Neeta Kantamneni
Funding Information
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Award Date: Jun 1, 2022
End Date: May 31, 2025
Abstract
As the number of jobs requiring science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) knowledge and skills rapidly increases, attrition rates in postsecondary STEM fields continue to soar above 50%. This shortage is largely due to students’ poor academic performance.
Improving the academic performance of undergraduate students in STEM programs is a critical national need.
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based strategies for psychological interventions have been proposed to enhance student performance, but a scientific knowledge gap exists regarding the mechanisms governing the efficacy of such interventions.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in computer science, educational psychology, sociology and statistics aims to address this knowledge gap by designing, developing and evaluating a novel platform through just-in-time, sociologically informed psychological interventions that connect individual students to artificial intelligence (AI)-based social support.
From left, Bilal Khan, Mohammad Hasan and Neeta Kantamneni are developing an app called Messages from a Future You, aimed at providing students with targeted, real-time interventions that boost their performance in STEM courses. (Craig Chandler, University Communication and Marketing)