期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 470-497出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s40593-014-0024-x
关键词
RCT; Controlled experiment; Formative assessment; Intelligent tutoring System; Authoring tool
资金
- NSF [0231773, 1109483, 0448319, 0742503, 1031398]
- US Dept of Education [R305K03140, R305A07440, R305C100024, R305A120125]
- GAANN
- Spencer Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- EDUCAUSE
- Direct For Education and Human Resources
- Division Of Research On Learning [0448319, 1109483, 1031398] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Graduate Education
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [0742503, 0231773] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The ASSISTments project is an ecosystem of a few hundred teachers, a platform, and researchers working together. Development professionals help train teachers and get teachers to participate in studies. The platform and these teachers help researchers (sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly) simply by using content the teacher selects. The platform, hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, allows teachers to write individual ASSISTments (composed of questions with answers and associated hints, solutions, web-based videos, etc.) or to use pre-built ASSISTments, bundle them together in a problem set, and assign these to students. The system gives immediate feedback to students while they are working and provides student-level data to teachers on any assignment. The word ASSISTments blends tutoring assistance with assessment reporting to teachers and students. While originally focused on mathematics, the platform now has content from many other subjects (e.g., science, English, Statistics, etc.). Due to the large library of mathematics content, however, it is mostly used by math teachers. Over 50,000 students used ASSISTments last school year (2013-4) and this number has been doubling each year for the last 8 years. The platform allows any user, mostly researchers, to create randomized controlled trials in the content, which has helped us use the tool in over 18 published and an equal number of unpublished studies. The data collected by the system has also been used in a few dozen peer-reviewed data mining publications. This paper will not seek to review these publications, but instead we will share why ASSISTments has been successful and what lessons were learned along the way. The first lesson learned was to build a platform for learning sciences, not a product that focused on a math topic. That is, ASSISTments is a tool, not a curriculum. A second lesson learned is expressed by the mantra Put the teacher in charge, not the computer. This second lesson is about building a flexible system that allows teachers to use the tool in concert with the classroom routine. Once teachers are using the tool they are more likely to want to participate in research studies. These lessons were born from the design decisions about what the platform supports and does not support. In conclusion, goals for the future will be presented.
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