| Title | Meet BIOCBOT, A GenAI Biochemistry Study Buddy tool designed to help you learn-by-teaching |
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| Faculty/College/Unit | Medicine |
| Status | Active |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2025 |
| Project Summary | Learning-by-teaching represents a powerful, though underutilized, method for mastering a subject. In pilot undergraduate courses (PSYC 278, BIOC 202, and BIOC 302), we have implemented a study buddy program where we pair high-achieving students with lower-achieving students as tutors and protégés. To date, we have offered study buddy matching to over 1,700 students. Our study showed that participants reaped significant benefit: their average increased by 1.5% compared to students who did not participate, and in some classes they increased by up to 5.5%. Despite these positive results, not all students in these pilot courses opt into the program, possibly due to personal or situational barriers. In this project, we will build a Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) biochemistry study buddy tool that acts as both a tutor and protégé to remove barriers and encourage more students to engage in the highly effective strategy of learning-by-teaching. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2025/2026 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Eden Fussner-Dupas |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 40,657 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Eden Fussner-Dupas, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine |