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Large Language Model Metacognition
Overview
Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots - such as Chat GPT, Gemini, and Claude - are incredibly powerful artificial intelligence tools that have skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years. LLMs can edit writing, generate code, create ...
Project · August 27, 2025
Metareasoning in Subjective Decisions
Overview
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the role of metacognition in decision making, thus spawning the field of metareasoning. However, the extant metareasoning literature has largely focused on reasoning tasks in which part...
Project · August 27, 2025
Psychology of Optional Disclosure
Overview
There has been a growing push in recent years to allow applicants to choose whether or not to submit information that could hurt their chances of success in competitive contexts. For example, many universities have implemented Test-Optio...
Project · August 27, 2025
Gifted Students' Psychological Development
Overview
Gifted students have unique academic, social, emotional, and metacognitive needs. These needs are typically addressed in the classroom through specialized gifted programs, such as cluster, pull-out, and self-contained classrooms. We have...
Project · August 27, 2025
Relational Determinants of Institutional Well-being Support for Black and Indigenous College Students
Principal Investigator: Paris Wicker (University at Buffalo- SUNY)
Project Description: The emotional well-being of Black and Indigenous college students is of particular concern given growing evidence of well-being disparities by race, and by ...
Project · August 27, 2025
Developmental cardiac toxicity of metal mixtures
A growing body of epidemiological studies link how close a pregnant women lives to an oil and gas site with increased risk for congenital heart defects (CHDs) with the baby. There could be many reasons for these observations. However, exposure stu...
Project · August 27, 2025
Endocrine disruption by artificial turf
Athletic fields are not always grass and dirt! Many community, private, and professional fields for recreation are made of artificial turf. Athletes of all ages and experiences can be directly exposed to the turf while playing, particularly throug...
Project · August 27, 2025
“Who Gets to be Well”? A Social and Spatial Network Analysis of Well-Being for Black and Indigenous College Students: A Mixed-Methods Study (Dissertation)
Abstract
The recent increase in mental health concerns and service utilization for students has been characterized as the “mental health crisis in higher education.” At the same time, there are social inequities on who gets to be well and under w...
Project · August 27, 2025
LLMs for Collaborative Learning
Overview
Since their inception, educators have pondered what Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots - such as Chat GPT and Gemini - mean for student learning. On one hand, they provide an incredibly hard-to-detect tool that students can use for chea...
Project · August 27, 2025
You’ve Got AI Friend in Me: LLMs as Collaborative Learning Partners
Abstract
Collaborative learning - an educational paradigm in which students work together to master content and complete projects - has long been a staple of classroom pedagogy. The rapid development of Large Language Model chatbots (LLMs), such ...
Publication · August 27, 2025
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