More Like this

1. Promising Long Term Effects of ASSISTments Online Math Homework Support

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_32  

   Feng, Mingyu; Huang, Chunwei; Collins, Kelly (July 2023, AIED 2023)

   Math performance continues to be an important focus for improve- ment. Many districts adopted educational technology programs to support student learning and teacher instruction. The ASSISTments program provides feedback to students as they solve homework problems and automatically prepares reports for teachers about student performance on daily assignments. During the 2018- 19 and 2019-20 school years, WestEd led a large-scale randomized controlled trial to replicate the effects of ASSISTments in 63 schools in North Carolina in the US. 32 treatment schools implemented ASSISTments in 7th-grade math class- rooms. Recently, we conducted a follow-up analysis to measure the long-term effects of ASSISTments on student performance one year after the intervention, when the students were in 8th grade. The initial results suggested that implement- ing ASSISTments in 7th grade improved students’ performance in 8th grade and minority students benefited more from the intervention. 

   more » « less
2. Drawing from justice theories to support targets of online harassment

   https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820913122  

   Schoenebeck, Sarita; Haimson, Oliver_L; Nakamura, Lisa (March 2020, New Media & Society)

   Most content moderation approaches in the United States rely on criminal justice models that sanction offenders via content removal or user bans. However, these models write the online harassment targets out of the justice-seeking process. Via an online survey with US participants ( N = 573), this research draws from justice theories to investigate approaches for supporting targets of online harassment. We uncover preferences for banning offenders, removing content, and apologies, but aversion to mediation and adjusting targets’ audiences. Preferences vary by identities (e.g. transgender participants on average find more exposure to be undesirable; American Indian or Alaska Native participants on average find payment to be unfair) and by social media behaviors (e.g. Instagram users report payment as just and fair). Our results suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach will fail some users while privileging others. We propose a broader theoretical and empirical landscape for supporting online harassment targets. 

   more » « less
3. Practera: An Online Platform to Support and Scaffold Experiential Learning

   Humez, A; James, N. (October 2019, 2019 Connected Learning Summit)
4. Promoting Student Support in an Online Fundamental of Electronics Course

   https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3154674  

   Emberley, Amanda C.; Douglas, Kerrie A.; Martin, Julie P.; Short, Taylor; Alexander Soto-Perez, Rene (November 2022, IEEE Transactions on Education)
5. Assessing Support for Mortality: An Environmental Scan of Online Platforms

   https://doi.org/10.1145/3710930  

   Doyle, Dylan Thomas; Paul, Casey; Brubaker, Jed R (May 2025, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction)

   Though online platforms have begun to include support for end-of-life needs, their development has been piecemeal and varies from platform to platform. Recent social computing research has examined end-of-life support on social media platforms and platforms specifically designed for grief and remembrance. However, understanding the functional end-of-life support provided by a wider array of platforms is needed to identify the most urgent design priorities beyond social media and remembrance-specific platforms. In this study, we present the results of a large-scale, multi-platform analysis of end-of-life support, summarizing the current state and identifying gaps as of April 2023. This study helps identify priorities to guide platform design and future research by identifying the current state of existing end-of-life support and gaps in that support. 

   more » « less