Description
The PLUS - Personalized Learning Squared project, run by the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University aims to double the rate of math learning in middle school students, particularly those who have been historically underserved. This project is operated in collaboration with Carnegie Learning and Stanford University and is led by Principal Investigator Prof. Ken Koedinger and Research Lead Dr. Danielle Thomas. PLUS features a hybrid tutoring platform that combines human and AI tutoring to deliver personalized learning for each student.
The National Tutoring Observatory , is a research infrastructure led by Prof. Rene Kizilcec at Cornell University, along with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and educational strategy company FreshCognate. The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to observe and record great teachers and tutors at work in one-on-one and small group interactions with learners. By partnering with a range of tutoring providers, we will create the world's largest repository of video and transcript data about tutoring interactions and the incredibly important work of teachers. The Observatory aspires to create a Million Tutor Moves dataset that records at least one million interactions between teachers and students. These new data will advance the science of instruction, provide important data for technologists developing AI tools, and allow the Observatory to create a pipeline for the creation of open-source AI tools.
About The Role:
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow who will contribute to original research to improve student learning outcomes through improved tutoring for the PLUS project and the NTO. This fellow would be advised by Prof. Ken Koedinger and Dr. Danielle Thomas at Carnegie Mellon, while closely collaborating with Rene Kizilcec and Co-PIs of The National Tutoring Observatory. . This includes work on improving tutor training, improving tutor-student matching, and developing AI-assisted support tools for tutors. This is an excellent opportunity for a technology-oriented postdoc researcher to make an impact on an exciting and fast-scaling project in the areas of educational data science, learning science, and education technology.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and apply interesting research methods and procedures to answering the following example research questions:
The PLUS - Personalized Learning Squared project, run by the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University aims to double the rate of math learning in middle school students, particularly those who have been historically underserved. This project is operated in collaboration with Carnegie Learning and Stanford University and is led by Principal Investigator Prof. Ken Koedinger and Research Lead Dr. Danielle Thomas. PLUS features a hybrid tutoring platform that combines human and AI tutoring to deliver personalized learning for each student.
The National Tutoring Observatory , is a research infrastructure led by Prof. Rene Kizilcec at Cornell University, along with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and educational strategy company FreshCognate. The mission of the National Tutoring Observatory is to observe and record great teachers and tutors at work in one-on-one and small group interactions with learners. By partnering with a range of tutoring providers, we will create the world's largest repository of video and transcript data about tutoring interactions and the incredibly important work of teachers. The Observatory aspires to create a Million Tutor Moves dataset that records at least one million interactions between teachers and students. These new data will advance the science of instruction, provide important data for technologists developing AI tools, and allow the Observatory to create a pipeline for the creation of open-source AI tools.
About The Role:
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow who will contribute to original research to improve student learning outcomes through improved tutoring for the PLUS project and the NTO. This fellow would be advised by Prof. Ken Koedinger and Dr. Danielle Thomas at Carnegie Mellon, while closely collaborating with Rene Kizilcec and Co-PIs of The National Tutoring Observatory. . This includes work on improving tutor training, improving tutor-student matching, and developing AI-assisted support tools for tutors. This is an excellent opportunity for a technology-oriented postdoc researcher to make an impact on an exciting and fast-scaling project in the areas of educational data science, learning science, and education technology.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and apply interesting research methods and procedures to answering the following example research questions:
- What are the key drivers of effective teaching and tutoring,
and how do they vary across different tutoring modalities,
implementations, and student demographics?