Blocking Vs. Interleaving: Examining Single-Session Effects Within Middle School Math Homework
Blocking Vs. Interleaving: Examining Single-Session Effects Within Middle School Math Homework
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阻止与阻止
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_34
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Zoey Peterson
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作者:
Korinn S. Ostrow;N. Heffernan;Cristina Heffernan;Zoey Peterson
The benefit of interleaving cognitive content has gained attention in recent years, specifically in mathematics education. The present study serves as a conceptual replication of previous work, documenting the interleaving effect within a middle school sample through brief homework assignments completed within ASSISTments, an adaptive tutoring platform. The results of a randomized controlled trial are presented, examining a practice session featuring interleaved or blocked content spanning three skills: Complementary and Supplementary Angles, Surface Area of a Pyramid, and Compound Probability without Replacement. A second homework session served as a delayed posttest. Tutor log files are analyzed to track student performance and to establish a metric of global mathematics skill for each student. Findings suggest that interleaving is beneficial in the context of adaptive tutoring systems when considering learning gains and average hint usage at posttest. These observations were especially relevant for low skill students.