A team of three students worked with 15-40 Connection to help the organization accomplish their mission of raising awareness about the advantages of early cancer detection. The purpose of this tutorial is to motivate individuals to take responsibility for their health because cancer rates have not shown improvements since 1975. Through the use of a Control vs. Experiment test a tutorial was created using the problem set software of ASSISTments to prove whether or not the introduction of being proactive towards one’s health changed the responses of the students. The study focused on the awareness that comes with knowing how a person’s body behaves and what health ailments could later develop into cancer, and what steps to take to help improve survival rates for teens and young adults.

• 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

• Pineda, Rachel Helen
• Sacks, Jessica Meredith
• Gritsko, Amaia L.

Subject

• Computing
• Health
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030614-235031

Keyword

• Public health
• Computer-assisted instruction
• Application software--Development

Advisor

• Heffernan, Neil
• Heffernan, Cristina Lindquist

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-03-06

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2020-11-24