4 Pitt researchers received a K-12 AI Infrastructure Program grant

Four University of Pittsburgh professors received a K-12 AI Infrastructure Program grant from Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization focused on expanding equitable learning opportunities and driving innovation in education through technology.

The awardees are Xiang Lorraine Li, assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information; Gayle Rogers, Andrew W. Mellon Professor and chair of the Department of English in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences; Diane Litman, professor and associate dean for mentoring and development in the School of Computing and Information; and Raquel Coelho, assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information.

The K-12 AI Infrastructure Program develops tools that strengthen formative assessment in writing, reading and mathematics. The Pitt collaborators will create a multimodal writing and feedback dataset that captures the transitional phase between high school and college writing, incorporating multi-draft student essays, detailed instructor feedback on idea development and audio interactions  from office hours.

Photography by Aimee Obidzinski