From guest blogger Alyssa Morones
Students who used a mathematics program that blends online learning and in-class instruction in algebra significantly improved their performance in the subject, finds new study funded by the U.S. Department of Education and carried out by the RAND Corporationand Educational Testing Service.
This two-year study, one of the largest conducted by the Education Department in the last nine years, involved over 17,000 students and 375 teachers from 147 schools in seven states for two years. Six million dollars were dedicated toward the randomized, controlled experiment, which featured Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor Algebra I. The Education Department's Institute of Education Sciences focused on Cognitive Tutor as one of the oldest and most commonly used hybrid-learning curricula in the country.
