SI2-SSE: Adding Research Accounts to the ASSISTments' Platform: Helping Researchers Do Randomized Controlled Studies with Thousands of Students

ASSISTments是一个免费的、基于大学的平台，用于执行控制实验，有可能帮助提高与K12教育相关的结果的质量、速度和可靠性。ASSISTments的使命是“通过科学研究改善教育，同时不影响学生的学习时间。”每天，老师们在ASSISTments中向数千名学生（目前有50,000名学生）分配问题。这些习题集通常包含受控实验。ASSISTments利用这个平台进行了对照实验，并发表了17篇同行评议的出版物。对于一个典型的教育研究者来说，发展与学校的关系是昂贵的。ASSISTments与教师和研究人员建立了关系，开展实验，在不扰乱课堂的情况下改善教育。该项目将在ASSISTments中增加研究人员帐户，以更好地促进研究过程。研究人员将创建自己的实验，获得WPI的批准以发布给教师，并获得匿名数据。ASSISTments将与信任ASSISTments的教师社区联系，邀请他们在他们的课堂上进行这项研究。这项工作的智力价值将是该系统所支持的研究的贡献。ASSISTments的十年目标是建立一个由数百名科学家组成的社区，使用该工具进行研究。心理学家倾向于在实验室研究中研究人类的学习；教育和学习科学的研究人员指出，目前尚不清楚这些研究是否适用于K12。这些社区需要共同努力，但缺乏共同点。成千上万的心理学、数学、教育和学习科学领域的研究人员都关心用科学来更好地理解人类的学习。一些研究人员研究如何通过激励信息、间隔重测或比较反馈来帮助学生。许多研究人员使用了数千名心理学本科生作为研究对象，但希望他们的想法在真实的K12环境中得到检验和验证。每个人都知道物理学家需要一个共享的科学仪器来完成他们的工作，但教育心理学家也一样。这项工作的更广泛的影响将是作为一个示范，展示如何建立一个工具来帮助许多研究人员进行控制实验。这将包括展示该项目如何提高科学家的效率。工作。

ASSISTments is a free, university-based platform created to perform controlled experiments with the potential to help increase the quality, speed, and reliability of results related to K12 education. ASSISTments' mission is "to improve education through scientific research while not compromising student learning time." Each day, teachers assign problems to thousands of students (currently 50,000 students) in ASSISTments. These problem sets often contain controlled experiments. ASSISTments has used this platform to do controlled experiments that have resulted in 17 peer-reviewed publications. For a typical education researcher, developing relationships with schools is costly. ASSISTments has built relationships with teachers and researchers to run experiments to improve education without disrupting classrooms. This project will add researcher accounts to ASSISTments to better facilitate the research process. Researchers will create their own experiments, get approval from WPI for release to teachers, and get anonymized data. ASSISTments will reach out to its community of teachers who trust ASSISTments, to invite them to run the study in their classrooms. The intellectual merit of this work will be the contribution of the studies that this system would support. ASSISTments' ten-year goal is to have a community of hundreds of scientists that use this tool to do their studies. Psychologists tend to study human learning in lab studies; researchers in education and learning sciences point out that it's not clear if those studies generalize to K12. These communities need to work together, but are lacking common ground. Thousands of researchers in psychology, mathematics education, and learning sciences care about using science to better understand human learning. Some researchers study how to help students with motivational messages, spaced retesting, or comparing feedback. Many researchers have used thousands of psychology undergraduates as subjects, but want their ideas tested and validated in authentic K12 settings. Everyone understands physicists need a shared scientific instrument to do their work, but so do educational psychologists. The broader impact of this work will be as a demonstration, showing how a tool could be built that helps many researchers conduct controlled experiments. This will include showing how the project can increase the efficiency of the scientists? work.