Peer Motivation: Getting Through Math Together

Improving academic achievement and motivation through online peer learning

The motivation to engage students has been a challenge in teaching and learning statistics. This study investigates the effectiveness of online peer learning in enhancing students’ academic achievement and promoting their motivation. The researcher employed a quasi-nonequivalent (preand posttest) control group design to investigate the effectiveness of online peer learning. The participants in ...

Peer Math Ability , Quantitative Curriculum

Peer Effects in Math and Science

This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in schools and families. We focus on critical course choices in high school and naturally occurring peer groups. We overcome the identification challenges of estimating peer effects in education by exploiting exogenous variation in choice sets. First, we analyze a universal free-choice reform causing a fall in math-science skills....

Supporting students working together on math with social dialogue

In this paper, we describe an environment for supporting collaborative problem solving that uses dialogue agents both for creating a collaborative attitude between students as well as for offering instruction. We evaluated the effect of the social dialogue agents on student collaboration by contrasting a condition that included the social agents with a condition that did not include them. Both ...

Getting Serious about Math: Serious Game Design Framework & an Example of a Math Educational Game

Serious games have been increasingly interesting to educators recently, but it is difficult to find good games that truly address the needs of young learners, especially in mathematics. Some games are either too simplistic or are not actual games. In the paper, an argument is made for the benefits of game-based learning (GBL) for instruction and assessment given what we know about Millenials an...