ASSISTments: Online Platform for Providing Timely Feedback and Guidance to Students on Mathematics Homework, Enabling Teachers to Adapt Instruction to Meet Students' Learning Needs.
Intervention Details
Subject
MathAcademic Program
General EducationDuration
Full school year.Grade
7Personnel
General Education Teacher, Coach
Intervention Summary
ASSISTments is an online platform that assists students while they solve mathematics problems, with the goal of improving student learning by enabling formative assessment practices related to homework. ASSISTments consists of mathematics problems with answers and hints, which are bundled into problem sets that teachers assign to their students. As students work online, the computer informs them about the correctness of a solution and offers guidance, if available for that problem. Teachers receive reports on how students perform on the assigned problem sets, including information about common wrong answers. The platform also includes "skill builders," which are practice problems that focus on a targeted skill until students reach a teacher-defined criterion for correctness. Teachers can use the data from ASSISTments to adapt instruction, identify areas where students need additional help, and provide personalized feedback and guidance.
Grade
7Personnel
General Education Teacher, CoachStatistical Finding Summary
Positive effect on math achievement
Greater benefit to students with lower prior math achievement.
Source
Feng, M., Mason, C. A., Murphy, R. F. & Roschelle, J. (2016). Online Mathematics Homework Increases Student Achievement (EJ1194398). ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1194398.pdf.
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