Project Focus Featured in UConn Today

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Students in an elementary school classroom raise their hands to be called on.
A team of Neag School of Education researchers led by PI, Dr. Catherine Little, and co-PI, Dr. Kylie Anglin, is developing a new initiative designed to help educators learn to both recognize diverse learners needing advanced services through high-level class discussion and to explore patterns of high-quality speech through Natural Language Processing (NLP), a specific field within AI research dedicated to using computers to process and interpret human speech.
Project Focus is one of several gifted education grants at UConn, including the National Center for Research on Gifted Education (NCRGE), and Project EAGLE that address inequity in schools. (Read more)