Responsible Use Guidelines for Dataset: “MathNet57789”

This Responsible Use Guideline (“Guideline”) governs your use of the dataset “MathNet57789” (“Dataset”). As used in these Guidelines, “you” refers to any user of the Dataset, and “we” and “us” refer to Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

The Dataset is intended for research and educational purposes and is provided on a free and open basis for the benefit of the general public. By sharing this dataset, we aim to encourage innovation and address the technology gaps that prevent us from fully understanding students' writing.

This data set has three different types of content and thus has multiple Creative Commons licenses that apply to different parts of the data sets. While we provide this information to be helpful to you, this is not legal advice and you should address all legal questions to a lawyer.

The first type of data: The math problems themselves (we call them the problem bodies ) have been pulled (with some minor modifications to make it easy for ASSISTments to give feedback) from open-source curriculum providers. These open-source curriculum providers have released their content under different CC licenses.  We have made it easy to understand who authored the content  (and the respective CC licenses you need to honor) by having a field in the data set that provides an indicator of the origins of the problem. Here are the three original curriculum and a note to you of their licenses so you can give appropriate credit.  

• Illustrative Math: From the Illustrative Math website: "IM 6–8 Math was originally developed by Open Up Resources and authored by Illustrative Mathematics®, and is copyright 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). OUR's 6–8 Math Curriculum is available at https://openupresources.org/math-curriculum." 

• Eureka Math by Great Minds:  Eureka Math, created by Great Minds, was given away by the NY State Department of Education.  According to their website at https://www.nysed.gov/standards-instruction/additional-resources-and-supports. They claim, "All ELA and mathematics curriculum files will be available at the links below, and will remain free and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license."

• Open Up Resources:  We point you to the website (https://access.openupresources.org/curricula/our6-8math-v1) that says they are CC BY.  

The second type of data: This dataset contains student answers in the form of images.  You cannot commercialize these images. Therefore we are releasing these under CC-BY-NC-4.0. 

The third type of data:  We are releasing the text annotations of the images (i.e., the image captions), the human-authored question-answer pairs, and the synthetic question-answer pairs under CC-BY-4.0.

Personally Identifiable Information

We believe we have removed all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from the images shared in the database; do not attempt to identify the author of the images. If you see any in the data as you are using it for any purpose, you must notify us by emailing etrials@assistments.org within 30 days and share the precise image you found with PII. Due to the possibility that the dataset might be updated due to a found piece of PII, we require researchers to use the most updated publicly hosted versions. As such, you are required to check at least once a month to see if we have posted a new version. 

Open Science

As part of our responsibilities to the National Science Foundation and the tenants of Open Science, we share de-identified datasets that our lab has created. We ask you include the name of the dataset in your work so that others can replicate it.