This Interactive Qualifying Project introduces and discusses the Assistment program, comparing it to similar programs and analyzing its effectiveness through experimentation. Content was developed for the Assistment program and incorporated into an experiment. The purpose of the experiment is to produce data that can be used to determine whether scaffolding questions or hints, the two tutoring methods used by the Assistment program, are more effective teaching mechanisms. The resulting data suggests scaffolding questions are more effective than hints.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Curran, David T
• Lamoureux, David P
• Gjata, Loren

Subject

• Learning
• Computing
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030507-150729

Mot-clé

• Interdisciplinary approach in education
• Computer-assisted instruction

Advisor

• Heffernan, Neil

Year

• 2007

Date created

• 2007-03-05

Emplacement

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright