Ongoing Projects

Maryland's Promise scholarship and pathways into college and the workforce (with Aizat Nurshatayeva)

• Studying the effects of the Maryland Community College Promise scholarship on recipients’ education and workforce outcomes

• Partner agencies: Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center

• Project Approval by MLDS Governing Board

Tracking the Relationship Between K-8 Suspensions and Early Juvenile Arrests (with Jane Lincove)

• Investigating the correlation between exclusionary discipline in K-8 schools and early juvenile arrests, aiming to shed light on the "school-to-prison pipeline”

• Partner agencies: Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center

TEACH ME: Technology Enhanced Academic Communication to Help in Math and English (with Lindsay Page, Katharine Meyer, Mitchell Stevens, and Sebastian Munoz-Najar Galvez)

• Investigating the extent to which integrating personalized, course-specific chatbot communication into gateway postsecondary math and English courses improves students’ academic performance, sense of belonging, retention, and completion at scale

• Partner agencies: Georgia State University, Morgan State University, University of Central Florida

• Funding: U.S. Department of Education

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