Catalyst Project: Development and Implementation of Intelligent Adaptive Cyberlearning System for Minority Freshmen Students

Catalyst项目为传统黑人学院和大学（HBCU）提供支持，以建立教师的研究能力，以加强科学，技术，工程和数学本科教育和研究。预计该奖项将进一步提高教师的研究能力，提高学院的研究和教学水平，并让本科生参与研究经验。阿拉巴马州农工大学计划开发和实施一个自适应网络学习系统，以支持学生教育和大一数学课程的学习。这种网络学习方法旨在为提高学生对数学的参与度奠定基础，从而长期坚持STEM，并作为其他机构背景下的典范。该项目的主要目标是开发和利用一种创新的、变革性的、集中的方法来提高阿拉巴马农业和机械大学（AAMU）学生的微积分代数技能的学习和表现。该方法的核心是一个被称为math - cycle的自适应网络学习系统。学生和教师将利用math - cycle的数字学习内容和嵌入式学习和参与策略来支持教学，并为学生提供一个智能互动适应系统，以支持他们的个性化学习。将调查网络学习系统的影响，以确定与接受传统教学的学生相比，使用math - cycle的学生的间接学习是否有改善。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, improve research and teaching at the institution, and involve undergraduate students in research experiences. Alabama A & M University intends to develop and implement an adaptive cyberlearning system to support student education and learning in freshmen-level mathematics courses. This cyberlearning approach seeks to lay the foundation for enhancing student engagement in mathematics, leading to long-term persistence in STEM and serving as a model for other institutional contexts. The primary goal of this project is to develop and utilize an innovative, transformative, and focused approach to improve students’ learning and performance of Pre-Calculus Algebra skills at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (AAMU). Central to the approach is an adaptive cyberlearning system referred to as MATH-CyLE. Students and instructors will utilize MATH-CyLE’s digital learning content and embedded learning and engagement strategies to support pedagogy and provide students with an intelligent interactive adaptive system to support their individualized learning. The impact of the cyberlearning system will be investigated to determine whether there are improvements to the indirect learning of students who use MATH-CyLE, as compared to students who receive traditional instruction.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.