Faculty Advisor
Heffernan, Cristina Lindquist
Faculty Advisor
Heffernan, Neil
Sponsor
ASSISTments
Abstract
To some students, homework can feel more like a chore than a learning experience. In some cases students will not even finish the entire assignment. We believe the problem is that the students are not engaged enough and instead become bored and quit. Our attempted solution to this problem was to add comics into the assignment problems. Using ASSISTments to test our theory, six problem sets were created, each one covering a different high school math topic. In the end we were able to come to the conclusion that putting distractions inside or outside the problems resulted in longer completion times for students while not increasing completion rate.
Publisher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Accepted
May 2014
Project Type
Interactive Qualifying Project
Copyright Statement
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Accessibility
Unrestricted
Advisor Department
Mathematical Sciences
Advisor Department
Computer Science