Project ViTAMR Vision Transformer-based Augmentation through Diagnostic feedback to support Mathematics Reasoning

Role: Co-PI Team: (PI) Wanli Xing, University of Florida & (Co-PI) Anthony Botelho, University of Florida Project Period: 2023-01-01 - 2023-12-31 Funding Agency: JAFF Foundation Amount: $96,000 This project focuses on creating an analysis pipeline that automatically grades students’ mathematics responses and reasoning skills using the image data. My focus will be on evaluating the responses accurately using the transformer language models and providing feedback on students’ mastery levels.

Culturally-sensitive Situational Judgment Tests for Fair and Equitable Medical Admissions

Role: PI (Sole) Project Period: 2022-09-01 - 2023-08-31 Funding Agency: Acuity Insights Amount: $50,000 Graduate Research Assistant: Zeyuan Jing This project focuses on evaluating and quantifying the rater biases in scoring the students’ narrative writing in Casper situational judgment test. We propose to combine a cutting-edge natural language processing approaches with computational psychometric model to provide a scalable pipeline to detect, evaluate, and report rater’s bias characteristics. Publications: TBA

Precision Education - Virtual Learning Lab

Role: Key Personnel Team: Link Funding Agency: IES Website: https://virtuallearninglab.org/about-us/ This project is a united effort by multiple academic organizations that seeks to explore the potential for precision education to revolutionize teaching and learning. The team approaches programming for online educational environments in new and innovative ways, with the ultimate goal of improving achievement for all students. The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.