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ETRA researchers explore AI knowledge of St. Mary School middle-level students

January 24, 2025 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA, Partnerships, Research/Faculty

Researchers from the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA) are working with nearly 50 middle-level students and their teachers at St. Mary Catholic School to measure their comprehension of Artificial Intelligence. How do they engage and interact with AI? What

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Drive My Car: ETRA delivers fun times to STEM Fest crowds, graduate students

October 3, 2024 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Hundreds of children of all ages visited the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment’s STEM Fest booth Sept. 28 in the Anderson Hall gym. And the learning – along with the smiles – was not limited to the guests. “This is

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Hard fun: Naperville children provide data on robots, computational thinking

August 21, 2022 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

Some faculty in the Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment (ETRA) were busy this summer writing about robots – and children. Can children program robots to sort differently sized objects for recycling? Can they write code for robots to simulate an

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