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Open INVITE Studies

We Need Your Help!

We need teacher insights to make our research possible. Check out our current study opportunities below.

Exploring AI Privacy and Trust Concerns with Teachers

Excited about the promise of new AI tools for your classroom? Have some new lesson plan materials you generated with AI that you’d like to share? Do you have some concerns about AI in education?

We’d like to hear from K-12 public school teachers about their perspectives on AI best practices or tools.

Participants will receive $100 per completed session, in exchange for their shared knowledge and expertise.

What To Expect:

  • 90-minute virtual focus groups
  • Participant identities and responses will be kept confidential
  • Opportunity to generate and review mockups that predict and illustrate student interactions with AI-enabled learning environments

To apply to participate please fill out our application form (at https://bit.ly/ai-perceptions) – we’ll get back to you ASAP! Focus groups will take place between October 15 and January 15.

If you have any questions about the study contact Diego Zapata-Rivera or read more about the research here, including research team members and relevant literature review.

Reading, Persistence and Virtual Characters

Coming soon! We’re waiting for approval for our study but in the meantime if you’re interested (referred here by a flyer or Charity Freeman) go ahead and drop ginger@illinois.edu a line and tell him you’re interested!

Are you worried about kids who struggle to read?
Interested in encouraging science literacy from an early age?

We’re looking for K-5 public school teachers in Science and Reading to help us develop a new activity for Relay Reader, an application dedicated to cultivating confident and persistent readers. As part of this new activity, second grade students are asked questions and given feedback from a virtual character after they read portions of a text. We want your help in creating characters and interactions that will most effectively promote learning, motivation, self-confidence and interest.

Participants will receive $X for a completed session, in exchange for their shared knowledge and expertise.

What To Expect:

  • 90-minute virtual focus group
  • Participant identities and responses will be kept confidential
  • Opportunity to generate and review mockups that predict and illustrate student interactions with characters in Relay Reader

To participate please fill out our application form (at https://bit.ly/#) – we’ll get back to you ASAP! Focus groups will take place between December 2 and 15.

If you have any questions about the study contact Beata Beigman Klebanov or read more about the research here, including research team members and relevant literature review.