Preparing for College: Using Technology to Support Achievement for Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics

“为大学做准备：利用技术支持数学学习障碍学生的成就”项目将在使用数字干预措施时，促进有关数学学习障碍本科生改进学习、动机和成就的知识。这一示范研究项目将导致试点测试干预措施，这将作为有学习障碍的学生如何在网络环境中学习数学的更高级研究的基础。该项目的主要干预工具是网络数学导师“Wayang Outpost”，它帮助学生解决具有挑战性的考试问题，进行明确的教学，并使用视觉表示来帮助学生学习。将试点对辅导系统进行修改，以解决系统的认知、元认知和情感维度，对应于学习通用设计背后的表征/表达和参与链。这个示范研究试点项目将包括在马萨诸塞大学和亚利桑那州立大学发展数学班的本科生中测试一系列干预措施。该项目将针对大约200名有或没有学习障碍的本科生，在实验和控制条件下在四个教室进行。

The Preparing for College: Using Technology to Support Achievement for Students with Learning Disabilities in Mathematics project will advance knowledge about improved learning, motivation and achievement of undergraduate students with mathematics learning disabilities when using digital interventions. This demonstration research project will result in pilot-tested interventions, which will serve as the basis for more advanced studies of how students with learning disabilities learn math in a cyber-enabled environment. The primary intervention tool for this project is a cyber-enabled mathematics tutor, "Wayang Outpost," that helps students solve challenging test problems, teaches explicitly, and uses visual representations to help students learn. Modifications to the tutoring system will be piloted that address cognitive, metacognitive, and affective dimensions of the system, corresponding to the representation/expression and engagement strands underlying universal design for learning.This demonstration research pilot project will include testing a series of interventions with undergraduates in developmental mathematics classes at the University of Massachusetts and at Arizona State University. The project will target approximately 200 undergraduates, with and without learning disabilities, across four classrooms in experimental and control conditions.