Grant-supported research projects
Below a list of the main grants won by ALSET affiliates for Educational Research:
Goal
This project evaluates the influence of circadian rhythms and environmental factors on sleep behaviour in Singaporeans during adolescent development. The objectives of our research are (1) to assess the temporal relationships between adolescents’ sleep and circadian rhythms during school and holiday periods; (2) to compare sleep behaviour and circadian timing between adolescents in Singapore with adolescents in other sociocultural/geographical settings; and (3) to assess the relative contributions of different psychosocial and environmental factors on sleep behaviour and circadian misalignment.
Investigator
Joshua GOOLEY (Duke-NUS Neuroscience); Co-PIs: June Chi Yan LO (NUS), John Chee Kang WANG (NIE)
Awarding Body
NIE Education Research Funding Programme (ERFP), 2020
Goal
To help workers stay relevant and competitive in a fast-changing world, we will investigate two theoretically novel mindsets as potential solutions to reduce the psychological barriers to lifelong learning. The knowledge and scalable interventions developed in this research will provide possible ways to motivate greater engagement in upskilling and reskilling.
Investigator
Patricia CHEN (NUS Psychology); Co-PI: Bernard CY Tan, SUN Li Ning
Awarding Body
WDARF, 2020
Goal
To understand and intervene to improve the psychological process of how learners self-regulate their learning.
Investigator
Patricia CHEN (NUS Psychology)
Awarding Body
NRF Fellowship, 2019
Goal
Test for associations of student’s diurnal learning activity (chronotype & social jet lag) with academic achievement.
Establishing proof-of-concept that Learning Management System data can be used to perform university-wide phenotyping of students’ diurnal learning activity.
Investigator
Joshua GOOLEY (Duke-NUS Neuroscience)
Awarding Body
NRF, 2018
Goal
To test the associations of chronotype with a broad range of psychological attributes in the freshmen of National University of Singapore (NUS).
Investigator
Joshua GOOLEY (Duke-NUS Neuroscience)
Awarding Body
NRF, 2019
Goal
Our goal is to develop “strategic mindset” interventions, which nurture a chronic mindset that drives agentic strategy use in (1) preschool children and (2) tertiary-level learners.
Investigator
Patricia CHEN (NUS Psychology)
Awarding Body
Singapore Millenium Foundation/Temasek, 2018
Goal
How goals are most effectively pursued, examining variables relating to motivation such as implicit self-theories, interest, and self-regulation.
Investigator
Paul O’KEEFE (Yale-NUS, Psychology)
Awarding Body
Ministry of Education (MOE) (TRF&MAF), 2017
Goal
To build a new AI-driven mobile app that could help Singaporeans find and select Continuing Education and Training (CET) programmes. In his first version, this recommender system relies largely on data from the SkillsFuture Credit (SFC) programme and suggests courses from the SFC catalogue.
Investigators
Robert KAMEI (NUS Paediatrics), Min-Yen KAN (NUS Computing)
Awarding Body
IAL Workforce Development Applied Research Fund (WDARF), 2018
Goal
An online intervention to study individuals’ career development through the regulatory focus theory - a theory that distinguishes promotion system and prevention system as the two main drives to pursue personal goals. This two-year randomised intervention targets a sample of 24-to-40-year-old members of the Singaporean workforce to gather data on participants (regarding job satisfaction, career resilience, self-control abilities, etc. ) to determine their regulatory focus and understand how to support adults in their learning journeys.
Investigator
JIA Lile (NUS Psychology)
Awarding Body
IAL Workforce Development Applied Research Fund (WDARF), 2019-2022
Goal
This research look at how individual psychological and behavioral attributes relate to career planning. It yields extensive data on uptake, engagement, and overall performance of different course suggestion programs. Uptake and engagement data will be captured through user interaction with our digital technologies; data on the performance of the program will be captured via surveys with study participants. In all cases, data will be segmented according to demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral attributes. Researchers will develop technologies to deliver the interventions, including online platforms and frameworks to enroll participants and collect information, as well as software to assist with data capture, analysis, and personalization of the interventions.
Investigators
Min-Yen KAN (NUS Computing), FUNG Fun Man (NUS Chemistry), Alex Biotteau (NUS ALSET)
Awarding Body
Merlion Grant, 2019-2020
Goal
Helping students to learn better.
Investigators
Fung Fun-Man (NUS Chemistry), Joshua Gooley (Duke-NUS, Neuroscience)
Awarding Body
Université de Paris, 2018
Goal
To develop a machine-learning-based method to perform an objective assessment of pronunciation and fluency in Korean as a second language. The proposed smartphone app DPA will be designed to support pronunciation-training outside-classroom.
Investigators
WANG Ye (NUS Computing), Mihi PARK (NUS Centre for Language Studies)
Awarding Body
NUS-CDTL (LIFT), 2019
Goal
This project aims to illustrate the potential of a developmental strategy for the greying Singapore that concentrates on the promotion of productive aging through encouraging lifelong learning, social participation, and economic activeness among older adults.
Investigators
PI: A/P Feng Qiushi (Sociology) and CFPR Deputy Director.
Co-PIs: Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Provost's Chair Professor (Sociology); Liu Haoming (Economics); Feng Lei (Psychological Medicine).
Collaborator: Teck Kiang Tan, Research Fellow (ALSET).
Awarding Body
Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 2
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