Single support Study

Introduction

Researchers who are interested in creating one type of student support (a hint support or an explanation) that helps students solve a particular problem and is compared to a control condition (ASSISTment's best support so far) for a research study, are welcome to use our platform to conduct a Support Comparison Study. 

What are Single Support Studies About?

• Many students struggle with math learning. ASSISTments is a free online math learning platform supporting millions of students. Teachers use the platform to assign students math problems from popular open educational resources such as Kendall Hunt Illustrative Mathematics and EngageNY/Eureka Math. ASSISTments is dedicated to helping students work independently on math problems by providing support in the form of hints and explanations.   

• Researchers will use the existing math problems in OER curriculums in our content library and create one condition of a student support for math problems. 

• Studies will be auto-deployed and no recruitment is required. Students will be randomly assigned into one of the conditions. 

• In addition to student learning data, clickstream data will be retrieved by the system and provided to the researcher for analysis. 

Conceptual Framework

The Process

• Develop: After logging into the E-TRIALS platform, you will choose a problem set and then write hints or explanations for the treatment condition of your study. 

• Deploy: Your study will be auto deployed. No recruitment required. Data comes in after students do the math problems with your hints or explanations. After your study is deployed, we will send you a brief survey on your demographics and feedback for our platform.

• Disseminate: Please keep us updated with the dissemination status of your study by emailing etrials@assistments.org.

The Platform for Writing Hints/Explanations

If you have any questions, please contact us at etrials@assistments.org.