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Help Evaluate an AI Career Coach for High School Students

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Study Overview

Leanlab is seeking 8-12 high school educators—particularly career coaches, counselors, and teachers of college and career readiness or advisory classes—to participate in a study evaluating an AI-powered career guidance tool.

Ideal participants have experience with career advising.

Participating educators will facilitate student use of Coach with their students over several weeks and provide feedback through surveys and focus groups.

Teachers will receive a $500 stipend upon completion of all research activities.

Product Description

Coach is an AI-powered career coach built by the nonprofit CareerVillage. Designed to scale career guidance for underserved students, Coach provides personalized support including career exploration, resume writing, mock interviews, step-by-step guidance toward career goals, and much more.

Co-designed with students, educators, career experts, and backed by research, Coach helps students build career confidence and take actionable next steps. Coach is free for individual students and has been used by over 65,000 learners across 30 partners worldwide.

Participant Responsibilities/ Research Activities

  • Facilitate student use of Coach (1-3 activities per week for several weeks)

  • Complete pre- and post-surveys (~15 min each)

  • Attend 1 virtual onboarding session

  • Participate in 1 end-of-study focus group (~60 min)

Assessment Required

  • Pre-Survey

  • Post-Survey

Agreements Required

  • Individual Contractor Agreements

  • Memorandum of Understanding

Ongoing Use/Cost

Coach is free for individual students.  School or district pricing can be found here: aicareercoach.org/pricing

Benefits

  • Co-design a FERPA compliant AI career guidance tool alongside researchers

  • Access free, 24/7 career coaching resources for your students

  • Actionable and insightful data on learners and their career journeys 

  • Contribute to research that will improve career support for underserved students nationwide

Compensation

  • $500 per educator upon completion of all research activities

Timeline

January-February 2026
 Recruitment and enrollment
March-June 2026 Implementation and data collection
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Evaluating AI Feedback in Writing Instruction

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Study Overview

This research partnership with Quill and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) develops standardized evaluation methods to compare AI-generated feedback against feedback from experienced educators. We're building benchmark datasets and evaluation protocols to measure how well AI systems perform in providing writing instruction feedback.

Product Description

Quill is an AI-powered writing platform that provides real-time feedback to students on their writing. Students will be completing three activities where they read an article and then complete a series of three sentence-level writing prompts. In each prompt, students build a sentence using evidence from the text.

Participant Responsibilities/ Research Activities

Schools: Provide 2-8 classrooms of 8th-9th grade students to complete 1-3 classroom activities (total of ~45 minutes per classroom). 

Teachers:

  • Attend a 30-60 min virtual onboarding session 

  • Use Quill with students (1-3 Quill activities)

  • Use Quill with 1-3 Class sections

Champions: (a school or district administrator) 

  • Coordinate with Leanlab staff around DSA and MOU completion.

  • Identify classrooms/teachers to participate 

Assessment Required

None

Agreements Required

  • Memorandum of Understanding

  • Data Sharing Agreement

  • Individual Contractor Agreements

  • Institutional Review Board

Ongoing Use/Cost

Quill.org is free for all students and teachers. Partners in the study will also receive free access to Quill Premium, which provides teachers with additional data reporting and professional development.

Benefits

  • Free, scalable writing feedback tool - Quill provides real-time AI-powered feedback to every student on their writing, addressing the gap between demand for quality feedback and teacher capacity

  • Improve student writing outcomes - Students receive immediate, actionable guidance to help them strengthen their writing skills across multiple disciplines

  • Data-driven insights - Schools gain visibility into student writing performance and progress trends

  • Contribute to AI education research - Help shape the future of AI writing tools by participating in research that improves feedback quality

  • Access to open-source protocols - Schools and educators will have access to the evaluation methods and datasets developed through this partnership, enabling broader adoption of AI writing tools

Compensation

  • Individual teacher stipend of $250

  • Individual Champion (admin) stipend of $500

  • School System unrestricted grant of $250 per participating teacher

Timeline

October - December 2025
 Recruitment and paperwork
January - March 2026 Cycle 1: Classrooms use Quill and provide data
April - June 2026
 Cycle 2: Classrooms use Quill and provide data
July - September 2026
 Cycle 3: Classrooms use Quill and provide data
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Evaluating AI Feedback in Writing Instruction - Annotators

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Study Overview

This research partnership with Quill and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) develops standardized evaluation methods to compare AI-generated feedback against feedback from experienced educators. We're building benchmark datasets and evaluation protocols to measure how well AI systems perform in providing writing instruction feedback.

Product Description

Quill is an AI-powered writing platform that provides real-time feedback to students on their writing. Students will be completing three activities where they read an article and then complete a series of three sentence-level writing prompts. In each prompt, students build a sentence using evidence from the text.

Participant Responsibilities/ Research Activities

As annotators, you will be asked to review and annotate student responses by writing 2–3 sentences of feedback on each. In this role, you’ll bring your expertise as an ELA teacher to help build a high-quality dataset that reflects authentic classroom feedback practices 

(~30 hours per teacher per evaluation cycle, $50/hr).

Annotators are NOT required to use Quill with their students or do work within school hours.

Assessment Required

None

Agreements Required

  • Individual Contractor Agreements

Ongoing Use/Cost

Quill.org is free for all students and teachers. Partners in the study will also receive free access to Quill Premium, which provides teachers with additional data reporting and professional development.

Benefits

  • Contribute to AI education research - Help shape the future of AI writing tools by participating in research that improves feedback quality

  • Access to open-source protocols - Schools and educators will have access to the evaluation methods and datasets developed through this partnership, enabling broader adoption of AI writing tools

Compensation

Teacher annotators: $50/hour (~30 hours per evaluation cycle). It is ideal if you can contribute to all 3 cycles but not required.

Timeline

October - December 2025
 Recruitment
January 2026 Onboarding
February - March 2026
 Cycle 1
April - June 2026
 Cycle 2
July - September 2026
 Cycle 3


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