Meagan Postema

Literacy has long been recognized as fundamental to academic success, as well as broader economic and health-related outcomes for both individuals and society. Whether due to developmental disability or socioeconomic impediments, as many as 40% of children enter Kindergarten a full year behind in fundamental language and literacy skills (Fielding… Read More

We are developing annotation schemes to detect potential misconceptions that underlie students’ errors in their math responses and annotating large datasets of students’ math responses. A data science challenge will then invite teams to develop algorithms that automatically detect misconceptions in the responses. These algorithms could then be used in… Read More

The iTELL (intelligent Texts for Enhanced Life-long Learning) framework ingests static texts on any content do-main using a custom content preparation system that guides content editors through the process of formatting the text and reviewing AI-augmented content prior to publication. Text content in iTELL is augmented with keyphrase generation (used… Read More

The project is designed to create an immersive environment for testing sensory development in children from birth until young adulthood. The environment will be a cave that will allow high resolution video projection via four 4k projectors, spatial audio via an ambisonics array of 25 speakers, and tactile and haptic… Read More

In the age of GenAI and with code generation tools, CS pedagogy is facing new challenges and opportunities. This series of projects aims to investigate the impact of GenAI on students’ learning performance in CS education and develop new pedagogical approaches with GenAI to enhance CS education. Read More

This project uses multi-modalities including eye tracking and medical imaging to model human cognitive processes in programming activities, and then leverage human cognition to develop automated mod… Read More

Although elementary school-aged children use and have interest in technologies with integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, they rarely critically investigate the sociopolitical contexts in which people consume and produce AI technology. Without engaging in this form of critical… Read More

Participatory quantitative ethnography has emerged as QE scholars have recognized the need to support equitable researcher-participant relations in the co-construction of knowledge. Calls for imagining and designing possibilities for such collaboration agree on the potential of already existing tools, such as Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA), within QE. Traditionally, ENA… Read More

Computational data literacies have become increasingly important for students of all ages. For elementary school children, these literacies include data storytelling with visualizations. However, a limited number of data visualization tools exist that are developmentally appropriate for children in grades 2 – 5. GROOVA is a data storytelling and visualization… Read More

TRANSLATE (Teaching Reading And New Strategic Language Approaches To Emergent bilinguals) is an instructional approach that provides teachers with the means to access all of the language of their students learning English. In TRANSLATE, students are taught to identify key excerpts from language arts texts and to use selected cognitive,… Read More