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Jamie Gillespie; Kevin Winn; Malinda Faber; Jessica Hunt – Grantee Submission, 2022
ASSISTments is a free online learning tool for improving students' mathematics achievement by providing immediate feedback and hints to students, detailed information on how students performed to teachers, and instructional suggestions for teachers to use. Researchers at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation conducted an intrinsic,…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Electronic Learning, Grade 7, Mathematics Teachers
Robert Murphy; Jeremy Roschelle; Mingyu Feng; Craig A. Mason – Grantee Submission, 2020
We report on a randomized controlled trial of an intervention that leverages the availability of laptops for all public-school students in the state of Maine. The intervention, called "ASSISTments," provides feedback to students as they solve mathematics homework problems and automatically prepares reports for teachers about student…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Access to Computers, Laptop Computers
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Robert Murphy; Jeremy Roschelle; Mingyu Feng; Craig A. Mason – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
We report on a randomized controlled trial of an intervention that leverages the availability of laptops for all public-school students in the state of Maine. The intervention, called "ASSISTments," provides feedback to students as they solve mathematics homework problems and automatically prepares reports for teachers about student…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Access to Computers, Laptop Computers
Roschelle, Jeremy; Feng, Mingyu; Murphy, Robert F.; Mason, Craig A. – Grantee Submission, 2016
In a randomized field trial with 2,850 seventh-grade mathematics students, we evaluated whether an educational technology intervention increased mathematics learning. Assigning homework is common yet sometimes controversial. Building on prior research on formative assessment and adaptive teaching, we predicted that combining an online homework…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Homework, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Achievement
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Feng, Mingyu – Grantee Submission, 2014
Homework has been a mysterious world to educators due to the fact that it is hard to collect data with regard to homework behaviors. Little is known about when a student works on homework, how long it takes him to complete the homework, how much time he spends on a problem and whether and where he has struggled, etc. Such information not only have…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 7, Formative Evaluation
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Roschelle, Jeremy; Feng, Mingyu; Murphy, Robert F.; Mason, Craig A. – AERA Open, 2016
In a randomized field trial with 2,850 seventh-grade mathematics students, we evaluated whether an educational technology intervention increased mathematics learning. Assigning homework is common yet sometimes controversial. Building on prior research on formative assessment and adaptive teaching, we predicted that combining an online homework…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement