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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Diane Litman was awarded a research grant from Institute of Education Sciences
, director of the , professor in the 51精品视频鈥檚 School of Computing and Information and senior scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, has been awarded a research grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to study undergraduate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education.
With colleagues Muhsin Menekse and Ala Samarapungavan of Purdue University, Litman will pursue research titled聽鈥.鈥 In this project, the researchers will use the mobile application CourseMIRROR in large STEM lectures to monitor student engagement and the effect of feedback on learning.
Developed by researchers at LRDC, CourseMIRROR is a mobile application that prompts students to reflect on their learning in the classroom. It also provides immediate and continuous feedback to instructors about the difficulties that their students encounter, providing insight to instructors on what was and was not learned.
This grant is under the institutes鈥 postsecondary and adult education聽program, which strives to support research for the betterment of student education at both the college level and in adult education programs. 聽聽