Project Tags: Educational Innovation

TartanBotQ: Designing and Building a ChatBot for Academic Advising at CMUQ

In this project, we aim at developing “TartanBotQ” a chatbot that can support conversation with students at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar in English mainly. In its first edition, TartanBotQ…

Dimension-Specific Automated Scoring of Arabic Language Writing Proficiency

In this project, we aim to develop the first system that automatically scores Arabic essays written by high school and first-year university students to assist their Arabic writing proficiency in…

Refining and developing tools to support academic, disciplinary, and professional communication

The proposed project builds on fifteen years of research in which I investigated academic writing at CMUQ through initial SEED funding and two major QNRF funded projects. The initial project…

Pilot Corpus of Undergraduate Information Systems Writing in Qatar

The aim of this project is to build an electronic corpus of undergraduate academic written English in Qatar to: (1) track patterns of student academic writing development; (2) inform instructors…

Scaffolding Analytical and Argumentative Writing in Higher Education: Developing Tools and Assessing Outcomes

The ability to analyze and argue effectively is crucial for students’ success in academia and their professional lives. Writing an effective argument involves analysis to put forth an explicit evaluation…

Teaching Grammar in the L2 Arabic Classroom: A Focus on Form Practice

The proposed book project is entitled: Teaching Grammar in the L2 Arabic Classroom: A Focus on Form Practice (under contract with Routledge). It is a needed resource that has been…

Publishing Undergraduate Research: Multidisciplinary Audiences, Mentorship, and Inclusive Practice

This research project is focused on developing best practices for operating Majāl, a recently launched multidisciplinary undergraduate research journal at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. This proposal represents the first…

SDG Education and Global Citizenship in Qatar: Enhancing Qatar’s Nested Power in the Global Arena

This project is motivated by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser’s reappointment as an Advocate of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), showing that Qatar embraces the importance of education as…

Research in Spanish Language Learning in Qatar

The purpose of this project is to measure students’ academic writing development in Spanish as they move from Elementary to Advanced Spanish. Learning Spanish at the college level is a…

Challenging Best Typographic Practice and Using Language Learning Technology to Improve Second Language Learners’ Reading Fluency

(1) Challenging Best Typographic Practice and Using Language Learning Technology to Improve Second Language Learners’ Reading Fluency; (2) Sequencing the Imagined and the Concrete: Using Image, Text, Motion, and Sound…