Using an Online Platform for Error Analysis and Data-Based Instructional Decision Making

• In Event: The Teacher's Role in Mathematics Learning

Abstract

Since 2017, we have participated in a replication study of the impact of ASSISTments, a free online learning tool for improving students’ mathematics achievement. As part of that study, we conducted an intrinsic, longitudinal multiple-case study of middle school teachers’ implementation of ASSISTments and its impact on their instruction before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This portion of the study examined teachers’ use of ASSISTments in error analysis and in determining how to respond instructionally to students’ mistakes. Our findings indicate that ASSISTments changed how teachers understood their students’ performance and helped them engage in error analysis to determine next instructional steps.

Authors

• Jamie Gillespie, North Carolina State University
  Presenting Author

• Kevin Winn, North Carolina State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Jessica H. Hunt, North Carolina State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Malinda Faber, Upper Canopy Consulting LLC
  Non-Presenting Author