Ongoing Projects

Text nudging for improved course performance (with Katharine Meyer, Lindsay Page, Tyler Walsh, and Eric Smith)

• Evaluating the effectiveness of academic chatbots in introductory government and economics college courses

• Partner agencies: Georgia State University

• Pre-registered at REES, Registry ID: 8160.1v1 and 13760.1v1

Innovations in proactive communication and support for STEM success: Implementation and impact of a course-specific text message chatbot in introductory undergraduate chemistry (with Katharine Meyer, Lindsay Page, Dabney Dixon, Elina Stroeva, and Suazette Mooring)

• Evaluating the effectiveness of academic chatbots in an introductory chemistry course

• Partner agencies: Georgia State University

• Funding: Ascendium Education Group

Scaling student support with conversational artificial intelligence (with Lindsay Page and Emily Russell)

• Evaluating chatbot capacity to improve students’ academic success and retention

• Partner agencies: California State University, Northridge

• Funding: Kresge Foundation

Campus intentions and student experiences of university-sponsored chatbot communication (with Lindsay Page, Mitchell Stevens, Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez)

• Documenting the institutions’ planning and management of their chatbot communication systems, and how these systems incorporate students' experiences

• Investigating how chatbot communication shapes students’ experiences and sense of belonging

• Partner agencies: Cal Poly Pomona and California State University, East Bay

• Funding: College Futures Foundation

Evidence of the impact of a youth training program in technological and socioemotional skills implemented in Nicaragua (with María Teresa Silva-Porto Díaz)

• Evaluating the labor market effects of receiving technical and socioemotional training

• Partner agencies: Inter-American Development Bank

• Pre-registered at REES, Registry ID: 16642.1v1

• Funding: Inter-American Development Bank