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).
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.