Learning Sciences and Technologies
ASSISTments—innovative educational technology developed by WPI and piloted over the past six years in Worcester County schools—is transforming how students learn math and science and how schools measure their progress. In award-winning research based on extended use, ASSISTments has been shown to significantly improve both testing and learning. Download ASSISTments overview brochure.
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A joint program between Social Sciences and Computer Sciences
With its graduate program in learning sciences and technologies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute aims to revolutionize the nation's education system to support significantly more effective and engaging learning in mathematics and science on a broad scale. It's an essential transformation for the United States to remain competitive on the global stage—and one you can help to lead as part of our small, interdisciplinary, and award-winning teams of faculty and student researchers.
The WPI learning sciences and technologies programs has steady streams of major public funding, national recognition, and a growing international reputation for its innovations in intelligent tutoring systems that combine technology-based learning and assessment.
Here, you will find the undisputed leaders in educational data mining whose research seeks to understand how students respond to educational software, and how these responses impact their learning. Research is under way to develop models for discovery about human learning and learners, and about their cognition, meta-cognition, motivation, and affect.
For school administrators and teachers
If you’re interested in learning more about WPI’s commitment to provide professional development, donate software licenses, and assure the long-term use of WPI’s platform for intelligent tutoring and formative assessment, contact one of the program co-directors: Neil Heffernan for math or Janice Gobert for science.
News:
- WPI Launches a New Graduate Program in Learning Sciences and Technologies
- WPI is a Partner in National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction
- At D.C. Conference, WPI PhD Student Presents Research on How Students Learn at Different Rates
- Award-winning Research at WPI Shows Intelligent Computer Tools Can Improve Education
- Telegram & Gazette Spotlights WPI Research on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
- Massachusetts Association of School Committees Honors Intelligent Tutoring System Developed at WPI
- WPI Receives $1.5 Million NSF Award to Develop Intelligent Tutoring System for Improved Science Education
- WPI Receives $2 Million Award to Develop an Intelligent Tutoring System That Can Improve Math Education
- Four WPI Computer Science Faculty Members Receive Federal Education Award
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