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New Intervention: Asking students about their goals #370

Open IvonArroyo opened 7 years ago

IvonArroyo commented 7 years ago

Hi David,

We really have to keep moving along with the GRIT proposed activities, which implies gathering data about students' goals as they use the tutoring system.

The intervention is quite simple, the usual pop-up window with a question and an open response box saying: "Some people set goals for themselves as they use MathSpring. We wonder... Do you have any goals, or intentions, for this new phase? What are you trying to accomplish?"

What we promised was to gather information about students' goals as they start practicing on problems, at the moment they enter the "Practice area", each time they enter a new topic from there (note it is not at the beginning of every topic, as they might switch topics within the same practice area).

Entering the practice area can occur after they come back from the garden, the student progress page, or the first time they start after log in. They might have clicked on 'continue', or 'review', or 'challenge' or even come from the 'select problem' part of the progress page from 'learn more'. Seeing where they are coming from is part of what we should be able to analyze, and how that might impact the goals they report.

Thank you David!

marshall62 commented 7 years ago

I think I get what you're after. You want the intervention to play every time they enter the practice area coming from any other area.

This will take a little more work than usual because it's a NextProblem intervention that needs to check events just prior to the current one. This is because we don't store a student's location within the tutor. It's all implied by the events that they've generated.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:03 PM, IvonArroyo notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi David,

We really have to keep moving along with the GRIT proposed activities, which implies gathering data about students' goals as they use the tutoring system.

The intervention is quite simple, the usual pop-up window with a question and an open response box saying: "Some people set goals for themselves as they use MathSpring. We wonder... Do you have any goals, or intentions, for this new phase? What are you trying to accomplish?"

What we promised was to gather information about students' goals as they start practicing on problems, at the moment they enter the "Practice area", each time they enter a new topic from there (note it is not at the beginning of every topic, as they might switch topics within the same practice area).

Entering the practice area can occur after they come back from the garden, the student progress page, or the first time they start after log in. They might have clicked on 'continue', or 'review', or 'challenge' or even come from the 'select problem' part of the progress page from 'learn more'. Seeing where they are coming from is part of what we should be able to analyze, and how that might impact the goals they report.

Thank you David!

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IvonArroyo commented 7 years ago

Yes, you got it.

Thanks for figuring this out.

--Ivon


Ivon Arroyo Assistant Professor in Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Computer Science, Data Science, and Interactive Media & Game Development P.I. of the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab (http://alt.wpi.edu) Learning Sciences and Technologies Graduate Program (https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/learning-sciences-technologies) Salisbury Labs 312 Worcester Polytechnic Institute

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:38 PM, marshall62 notifications@github.com wrote:

I think I get what you're after. You want the intervention to play every time they enter the practice area coming from any other area.

This will take a little more work than usual because it's a NextProblem intervention that needs to check events just prior to the current one. This is because we don't store a student's location within the tutor. It's all implied by the events that they've generated.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:03 PM, IvonArroyo notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi David,

We really have to keep moving along with the GRIT proposed activities, which implies gathering data about students' goals as they use the tutoring system.

The intervention is quite simple, the usual pop-up window with a question and an open response box saying: "Some people set goals for themselves as they use MathSpring. We wonder... Do you have any goals, or intentions, for this new phase? What are you trying to accomplish?"

What we promised was to gather information about students' goals as they start practicing on problems, at the moment they enter the "Practice area", each time they enter a new topic from there (note it is not at the beginning of every topic, as they might switch topics within the same practice area).

Entering the practice area can occur after they come back from the garden, the student progress page, or the first time they start after log in. They might have clicked on 'continue', or 'review', or 'challenge' or even come from the 'select problem' part of the progress page from 'learn more'. Seeing where they are coming from is part of what we should be able to analyze, and how that might impact the goals they report.

Thank you David!

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