Weekly iSAT News

Our Strand 3 lead Tamara Sumner talks about how iSAT is designing AI partners to help transform schools in this article in The Economist. Along with being a Co-Principal Investigator at iSAT, Tamara Sumner is the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science and a Professor in Computer and Cognitive...

iSAT Interns helped lead a week-long STEM camp held in conjunction with a local school district last week. Over 100 students attended and learned about iSAT’s curriculum such as the Self Driving Cars unit as well as AI, cybersecurity, robotics and more! Our interns were excited to share what they...

Several iSAT team members co-authored the paper Propositional Extraction from Natural Speech in Small Group Collaborative Tasks which was awarded Best Student Long Paper at the Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM 2024) held in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations to all of the Strand 1 members who contributed to this!

Our Strand 1 team plays a very integral role in developing our AI partners. CSU College of Natural Sciences online news featured a great article on Assistant Professor Nikhil Krishnaswamy and his team of researchers and how they are working on ways to better integrate an understanding of nonverbal behavior,...

iSAT affiliated Research Scientist Robert Moulder hosted a two day workshop on Bayesian Analysis at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). This conference was hosted by The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), which is an inter-disciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of...

Jeff Bush, theme lead and Strand 3 member, presented at a workshop at ISLS 2024 (International Society of the Learning Sciences) titled AI Augmented Learning for All: Challenges and Opportunities in Buffalo, New York in early June. The objectives of the workshop was to provide the learning sciences community with...

The iSAT High School Internship Program had 7 interns from two local school districts present their internship research projects. During four, 10–15-minute, presentations, the interns covered what they’ve been working on as part of iSAT’s different research strands.

One of our Strand 1 theme leads, Jacob Whitehill, recently had a paper published in the Journal of Educational Data Mining. Titled "Automated Evaluation of Classroom Instructional Support with LLMs and BoWs: Connecting Global Predictions to Specific Feedback” you can read the paper in its entirety here . Congrats Jacob!

This week, iSAT had its annual site visit with the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our team members shared in-depth details of progress made during the fourth year as an Institute including updates on both of our AI partners - JIA and CoBi. The iSAT team is excited for what’s to...

iSAT Strand and Theme leads presented iSAT’s year 4 accomplishments to our valued External Advisory Board this week. iSAT members presented an overview of accomplishments since the last EAB meeting, plans for the upcoming year, and offered space for EAB members to ask questions about iSAT’s progress.