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NSF-funded study: Pi-Sui Hsu partners with West Aurora 129 for new research

September 16, 2025 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, Partnerships, Research/Faculty

Pi-Sui Hsu is celebrating a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to advance her study of teaching scientific argumentation with technology. The federally funded, one-year project with teammate West Aurora School District 129 will examine challenges to that practice but also

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Good timing: Pi-Sui Hsu presents camp on air quality during Canadian wildfires

November 8, 2023 Mark McGowan enewsletter, ETRA

As the skies over Illinois turned gray and unhealthy with smoke from Canadian wildfires, canceling many outdoor events and prompting people to stay home, no one saw a silver lining. Except for Pi-Sui Hsu. Hsu, a professor in the Department of Educational

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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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