Worcester Polytechnic Institute's ASSISTments web-based Tutor is showing significant positive results among middle school students.
A news release announced "Year-end test scores of Massachusetts middle school students whose teachers used ASSISTments, a Web-based tutoring platform developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), as a central part of their mathematics instruction were significantly better than those of students whose teachers did not use the platform, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Educational Computing Research. Conducted by Neil T. Heffernan, PhD, of WPI, and Kenneth R. Koedinger, PhD, and Elizabeth A. McLaughlin, both of Carnegie Mellon University, the study examined data collected from 1,240 seventh grade students in four schools in an urban Massachusetts school district."
School districts in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Montana have integrated the software into schools. The software is free for schools!
If interested in a demo or other details contact:
Michael Dorsey
Director of Research Communications
+1 508 831 5609
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