Title page for E-project-050611-102956

Project Type IQP

Submission date 2011-05-06

Authors
Matthew Carr, CM
Ashley Daisley, BE
Sarah Anne Fischer, ECE

URN E-project-050611-102956

Division Education in a Technological Society

Title Evaluating the Effectiveness of the ARRS System

Advisors
Heffernan, Cristina Lindquist, MA
Heffernan, Neil, CS

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
The ASSISTments system is a web-based tutoring site designed to engage middle and high school students in key course objectives, and to help them excel in these objectives with the use of a space learning based technique. This system is designed to retest students on a timed basis. The goal of this IQP is to test the efficiency of ARRS and prove that ARRS increases retention rate among students. The students were divided by class and then split up randomly into two groups, A and B. Both groups received weekly homework assignments with either group A or B receiving ARRS in each skill. After all relearning assignments were completed; the classes were given different post tests with transfer questions complementing the topics they were given with ARRS.

Files
IQP_WRITE_UP.pdf

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Project Type	IQP
Submission date	2011-05-06
Authors	Matthew Carr, CM Ashley Daisley, BE Sarah Anne Fischer, ECE
URN	E-project-050611-102956
Division	Education in a Technological Society
Title	Evaluating the Effectiveness of the ARRS System
Advisors	Heffernan, Cristina Lindquist, MA Heffernan, Neil, CS
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The ASSISTments system is a web-based tutoring site designed to engage middle and high school students in key course objectives, and to help them excel in these objectives with the use of a space learning based technique. This system is designed to retest students on a timed basis. The goal of this IQP is to test the efficiency of ARRS and prove that ARRS increases retention rate among students. The students were divided by class and then split up randomly into two groups, A and B. Both groups received weekly homework assignments with either group A or B receiving ARRS in each skill. After all relearning assignments were completed; the classes were given different post tests with transfer questions complementing the topics they were given with ARRS.
Files	IQP_WRITE_UP.pdf