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Yu and Elwert Develop Approach to Better Understand Causes Behind Group Disparities

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Understanding roots of social inequalities Social scientists have long worked to better understand the roots of societal inequalities between groups. For example, why do members of one group on average do better in school, or why does another group have a lower average income? There is a large literature that has tried to find the …

Karumbaiah Awarded Grant from Spencer Foundation to Study how AI Tools Can Better Support Multilingual Learning

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IDS affiliate Shamya Karumbaiah was recently awarded a Spencer Foundation Grant to study how generative AI educational tools can better support multilingual learning. Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Educational Psychology, is a computer scientist and learning scientist whose work focuses on using human-centered AI to improve learning outcomes for …