Online math homework increases student achievement

Online math homework increases student achievement
 
A study published in the journal AERA Open has found that a web-based mathematics homework intervention called ASSISTments made a positive impact on students' math achievement at the end of the school year.
Jeremy Roschelle and colleagues conducted a randomized controlled trial with 2,850 Grade 7 math students across 43 schools in Maine, which since 2002 has provided every student in Grade 7 with a laptop. Schools in the intervention and control groups were matched in terms of demographics and socioeconomic status.
The ASSISTments intervention provided students with immediate personalized feedback as they worked on their homework, and when students struggled they were given the opportunity to work on supplementary problems sets. The intervention also enabled formative assessment practices for teachers, such as adapting their discussions of homework to fit students' needs.
 
In schools where students and their teachers used the intervention, students achieved higher standardized math test scores (effect size = 0.18) compared with students in the control schools. Students with low prior math achievement, in particular, benefited the most. 

Johns Hopkins University 

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