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Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Receive $25 Million Federal Grant to Study How People Learn and How They Can Learn Better
PITTSBURGH, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Science Foundation has renewed a five-year, $25 million grant to continue the work of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC), founded by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in 2004 to study how people learn and how to use those findings to develop teaching tools that can foster consistently high achievement in the nation's classrooms. [more]
Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh Receive Multimillion-Dollar Grant From NSF To Create Center Focusing on the Science of Learning
PITTSBURGH—The National Science Foundation has awarded Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $25 million
grant to establish the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC),
which will sponsor rigorous research into how people learn and, based... [more]
Learning about Learning: NSF Awards $36.5 Million for Three Centers to Explore How Humans, Animals and Machines Learn
Arlington, Va.— Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Washington have received National Science Foundation (NSF) awards totaling $36.5 million over the next 3 years to establish Science of Learning Centers. The new centers will engage in basic research and serve as hubs for a national network of research focused on learning... [more]
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Data Mining Gains Traction in Education
The new and rapidly growing field of educational data mining is using the chaff from data collected through normal school activities to explore learning in more detail than ever before, and researchers say the day when educators can make use of Amazon-like feedback on student learning behaviors may be closer than most people think. [more]
CMU, Pitt cooperate to find ways to make homework more effective
Homework is a given in virtually any school.
Now researchers at the Pittsburgh Science Learning Center -- a collaboration of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh -- say they've found a way to make homework more effective.
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Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center Wins $25 Million Grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded a second five-year grant to the PSLC, a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh to study how people learn and to develop the most effective, science-based teaching tools. Carnegie Learning is a spin-off company that uses research results to provide mathematics programs to 2600 U.S. schools.
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Head of the Class
The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center -- a joint project of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh --- is building the worlds largest repository of educational data. Mining that information is providing new insight into the ways that children and adults learn.
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$25 million National Science Foundation grant helps local students
Officials from both universities were at Steel Valley on Monday morning to announce the National Science Foundation has renewed the center's five-year, $25 million federal grant. The goal is to study how students learn and use those findings to develop more effective teaching tools.
Beth McCallister, who chairs the math department at the middle and high schools, said the district began using the tutorial three years ago. Since then, the percentage of middle-schoolers scoring "proficient" on the math portion of the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment has risen from 35 to 77.
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Pitt, CMU get $25 million to study how people learn
The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center -- a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh -- has won a second $25 million grant over five years for studying how people learn and seeing how that knowledge can be used to improve education.
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Cover Story: Transforming America's Schools Carnegie Mellon's interdisciplinary culture has propelled researchers in departments ranging from Psychology to Statistics to Computer Science to produce innovations that are revolutionizing K-12 and college classrooms. [more]