Design-Based Research Within the Constraints of Practice: AlgebraByExample
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- Title
- 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
- Grant funding
- Goldman Sachs Foundation
- Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
- 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
- Item sets
- IRE Handbook Introduction Citation
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