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The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) through the National Center for Education Research (NCER) has funded a program named Digital Learning Platforms to Enable Efficient Education Research, which includes a grant Revisions to the ASSISTments Digital Learning Platform to Expand Its Support for Rigorous Education Research to fund Neil and Cristina Heffernan to 1) make ASSISTments even better instruments to detect when student supports (hint messages, motivation messages, video explanations etc) are effective and 2) make the platform more attractive to teachers by creating an adaptive version of ASSISTments. So if a teacher wanted to assign 5 problems from OER resources, they will be able to hit a button to "make it adaptive", if the student does not get it correct, they will eventually be given a 2nd problem to do. The system will experiment with the best students supports to give out on the first problem and use the 2nd problem as a dependent measure to assess student learning.
We will build upon ETRIALS. (https://www.etrialstestbed.org/)
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