About the Program
A joint program between Social Sciences and Computer Sciences
WPI's graduate programs in learning sciences and technologies attract highly motivated, entrepreneurial graduate students ready to make significant contributions to a challenge of national importance: understanding and improving the educational process.
At WPI, you are exposed to every aspect of educational technology and can choose your focus, whether to design the pedagogy and/or the software, build it, implement and deploy programs, or mine the data collected. Throughout your WPI experience, you will benefit from the pioneering work of WPI faculty, whose scholarship includes psychology, which seeks to understand how each child learns, and computer science, which seeks to understand and adjust tutoring to students in real time.
Here you will be part of a close-knit, collegial community of researchers working on the leading edge of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, and educational data mining. Your work will contribute to changes being made—and educational gains realized—in classrooms across the country, as WPI makes our innovations in intelligent tutoring and formative assessment freely available to interested school districts.
Whatever your direction, you will have the one-on-one faculty mentorship and applied learning opportunities that are hallmarks of the WPI experience.
Intelligent Tutoring Systems That Teach and Assess
With $9.5 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other agencies for math and science intelligent tutoring and assessment systems, WPI innovations are making an impact, including:
- ½ letter grade increase in math, on average
- 6 months post-instruction, students demonstrated mastery of critical science skills
Download ASSISTments overview brochure to learn more.
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