What is ASSISTments
From TeacherWiki
ASSISTments is a web based system with a blend of assessMENT and instructional ASSISTance. ASSISTments is a free public service of WPI due to funding from The US Department of Education, The National Science Foundation, The Spencer Foundation and others. It is developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester MA in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers at WPI in conjunction with cooperating schools have used the system to build over 4000 problems with extensive tutoring. There are also features including Essay Grading, Parent Notification and Automatic Reassessment and Relearning on our 137 skills. This system is designed to be a tool for Formative, Summative and Benchmark Assessment. Teacher can use the current content or build their own assessments and homework problems. Teachers who use ASSISTments are not changing what they teach or what they assess, they are just making the whole assessment process more efficient for both them and their students. Students and teachers get instant reports on the problem set assigned at home or in school.
Learn even more
Here are a few links you can use to learn about ASSISTments.
- Overview: About ASSISTments will give you a introduction to ASSISTments.
- Listen to teachers talk about how they use ASSISTments at a the January 14, 2011, meeting of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts.
- Video: Watch a video showing what ASSISTments looks like.
- Press : Here is a Boston Globe article and a NPR interview on the back story behind ASSISTments featuring Neil Heffernan explaining why he keeps ASSISTments free.
- Maine Letters of Support: See letters of support from Maine's Commissioners office, the chief of math, chief of the laptop project, and other folks in Maine, including letters of support from 12 districts.
- To see some of the textbooks we already have in the system click here. As part of these grants, we will take the commonly used textbooks in Maine and put the answers into ASSISTments, so your school can do what they already do for homework and will have the benefits of immediate feedback.
- Listen to School Officials Talk about ASSISTments: This page has a video of teachers and principals explaining to Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville how they use ASSISTments.
- Research: Research results that show ASSISTments works to produce greater student achievement.
- Further Information: More information is available at our main teacher site.
