Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1904 The University of Texas at El Paso (143792)
Principal Investigator: Aggarwal,Palvi
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 120,291
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Computer Science
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Computer Science
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: CISE-MSI: DP: IIS-III: ACOSUS: An AI Driven Counseling System for Underrepresented Transfer Students
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
CFDA Link: NSF
47.070
Program Title:
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
CFDA Linked: Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Note:
The use of information systems to assist STEM major underrepresented community college students in their transfer to universities and job market success is a critical but challenging goal of higher education. Existing research on student counseling is primarily concerned with investigating factors influencing student success, which are mostly restricted to demographic and academic variables. The intervention formats were restricted to a variety of programs such as mentorship and living-learning communities. The overarching goal of this research is to design a hybrid AI-driven counseling system that will make personalized readiness assessment and suggestions for decision support in addition to performance prediction, with a primary focus on underrepresented transfer students in STEM majors. The new framework will take into account cognitive and behavioral data as well as social media impact on top of student academic performance. It will exploit techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, and recommender systems. The project will also build research capacity by establishing a sustainable faculty collaboration network, creating regular workshops, and providing underrepresented students with research-oriented training opportunities.
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