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

催化剂项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）提供支持，努力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，改善研究和教学机构，并参与本科生的研究经验。亚拉巴马农工大学打算开发和实施一个自适应网络学习系统，以支持新生数学课程的学生教育和学习。这种网络学习方法旨在为提高学生对数学的参与奠定基础，从而长期坚持STEM并作为其他机构环境的典范。 该项目的主要目标是开发和利用一种创新的，变革性的，有针对性的方法，以提高学生的学习和性能的预演算代数技能在亚拉巴马农业和机械大学（AAMU）。该方法的核心是一个自适应网络学习系统，称为数学-CyLE。学生和教师将利用Math-CyLE的数字学习内容和嵌入式学习和参与策略来支持教学法，并为学生提供智能交互式自适应系统，以支持他们的个性化学习。将对网络学习系统的影响进行调查，以确定与接受传统教学的学生相比，使用MATH-CyLE的学生的间接学习是否有所改善。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.