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On-line tutoring for Math Achievement Testing: A Controlled Evaluation
K-12 - Quantitative Research; Carole R. Beal, University of Southern California; Rena Walles, Ivon Arroyo, & Beverly P. Woolf, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This study reports the results of a control group study of an interactive on-line math tutoring system for high school. High school students completed a math pre-test and were then assigned by teachers to receive interactive on-line multimedia tutoring or their regular classroom instruction. The on-line tutored students improved on the post-test on the problems involving skills tutored in the on-line system (within-group control). Control group students showed no improvement. Students' use of interactive multimedia hints predicted pre- to post-test improvement, and students with weakest initial math skills benefited the most from tutoring.
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