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Design-Based Research Within the Constraints of Practice: AlgebraByExample

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Design-Based Research Within the Constraints of Practice: AlgebraByExample
Abstract/Description
Superintendents from districts in the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) challenged the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) to identify an approach to narrowing the minority student achievement gap in Algebra 1 without isolating minority students for intervention. SERP partnered with 8 MSAN districts and researchers from 3 universities to design and rigorously test AlgebraByExample, a set of 42 Algebra 1 assignments with interleaved worked examples that target common misconceptions and errors. In a year-long random-assignment study, students who received AlgebraByExample assignments had an average 7 percentage point boost on a posttest containing released items from state assessments, and students in the bottom half of the performance distribution where minority students are disproportionately concentrated had an average 10 percentage point boost on a researcher-designed assessment of conceptual understanding. AlgebraByExample is easily incorporated into any existing curriculum, and naturally serves as a launch point for mathematically rich discussion.
Author/creator
Booth, Julie L.
Cooper, Laura A.
Donovan, M. Suzanne
Huyghe, Alexandra
Koedinger, Kenneth R.
Paré-Blagoev, E. Juliana
Date
4/3/2015
In publication
Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR)
Volume
20
Issue
1-2
Pages
79-100
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
IRE Approach/Concept
Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)
Design-Based Research
Featured case/project
Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
1082-4669
DOI
10.1080/10824669.2014.986674
URL
Publisher Webpage
Grant funding
Goldman Sachs Foundation
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Grant number
IES Grant #IR305A100150
ERIC Link (#EJ1056824)
Citation
Booth, J. L., Cooper, L. A., Donovan, M. S., Huyghe, A., Koedinger, K. R., & Paré-Blagoev, E. J. (2015). Design-Based Research Within the Constraints of Practice: AlgebraByExample. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 20(1–2), 79–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/10824669.2014.986674
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Introducing Improvement Research in Education
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