Timeline for Measure of Improvement in Math Skills from Remediation with ALEKS
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| Dec 30, 2018 at 19:24 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @MattBrenneman: IMO educational research is generally pretty terrible/unreliable. (The only thing that I feel confident about from the research is that online educational for remedial students is a disaster.) | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 16:34 | comment | added | Matt Brenneman | I look forward to going through them because speaking as a statistician, most of what I have seen is generally sloppy research that seems to be adopted by other educators as "evidence" that ALEKS is better than traditional methods. Like you pointed out, assessment is a complicated business, but you would expect that educators, knowing this, would work towards developing a standards of best practice (since ALEKS didn't apparently do this research on their own before marketing their product). Anyhow, my forte isn't educational research, so this has been an interesting experience for me. | |
| Dec 27, 2018 at 16:21 | comment | added | Matt Brenneman | I appreciate the response. I had studied the first reference (but it pertained to a lower level math class and the quality of the study was so poor, the validity of the conclusions are at best, tenuous). The other reference is directly relevant, but does give a number of references that look promising. | |
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| Dec 27, 2018 at 2:32 | history | answered | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |