From the Office of Research and Graduate Education: Congratulations to Shiyu Wang and Andrew Jackson

Bayesian Inference for Attribute Hierarchy in Cognitive Diagnosis Models

  • PI: Yinghan Chen, assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno
  • Co-PI: Shiyu Wang, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology
  • Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • Amount: $229,951

Congratulations to associate professor Shiyu Wang on being awarded a National Science Foundation Methods, Measurement, and Stats grant. This research project will advance statistical methods for estimation and inference on attribute hierarchy within the framework of cognitive diagnosis models (CDM).

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Learning by Evaluating: Engaging Students in Evaluation as a Pedagogical Strategy to Improve Design Thinking

  • PI: Scott Bartholomew, assistant professor, Brigham Young University, Technology and Engineering Studies
  • Co-PIs: Nathan Mentzer, associate professor, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute, Technology Leadership, and Innovation; Andrew Jackson, assistant professor in the Department of Career and Information Studies
  • Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  • Amount: $1,257,321

Congratulations to assistant professor Andrew Jackson on being awarded a National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 grant. This three-year exploratory project consists of two years of design-based qualitative research followed by one year of quasi-experimental mixed-methods research to test the hypothesis that LbE will significantly improve student learning.

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