The Papers from E-TRAILS that Neil did not Author

These are the paper that Neil Heffernan has not authorship on. These were conducted by researchers using the ASSISTments Testbed Platform, which is created by Neil, but Neil was just a midwife to these studies.

  1. Showing that ASSISTments Closes Achievement Gaps (between lower-achieving students and higher achieving students).

  2. Showing how you can use ASSISTments to study spatial features in mathematical expressions.

  3. Comparing hints versus step-by-step scaffolding questions, versus solution, versus worked examples.

  4. Comparing the difficulty of different problem types

  5. Comparing different problems have to be

    • Single Template vs. Multiple Templates: Examining the Effects of Problem Format on Performance. By University of Pennsylvania

      • Jiang, Y., Almeda, M. V., Kai, S., Baker, R. S., Ostrow, K., Inventado, P. S., & Scupelli, P. (2020). Single Template vs. Multiple Templates: Examining the Effects of Problem Format on Performance. In Gresalfi, M. & Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 2 (pp. 1015-1022). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://repository.isls.org/bitstream/1/6288/1/1015-1022.pdf

  6. Comparing different instructional approaches

  7. Comparing different instructional approaches

Under Review:

  1. Andres-Bray, M., Hutt, S., Zhou, Y, & Baker K. (submitted) A Comparison of Hints vs. Scaffolding in a MOOC with Adult Learners. Submitted to AIED. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9gdtSX0RJdOi5AiR5H5rzSIOs3ovPMl/view?usp=sharing

  2. Duquennois, C. (2019). Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students. (Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review) Dr Duquennois has told Neil that this looks like they are close to publishing this journal article. See her website for the status

Less prestigious venues:

1. Harrison, A., Smith, H., Hulse, T., & Ottmar, E. (2020). Spacing out: Manipulating spatial features in math expressions affects performance. Paper to be presented in a roundtable session on “Design Considerations in Mathematics Learning” at the 2020 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

2. Smith, H., Harrison, A., Chan, J. C., & Ottmar, E. (2020). Dynamic vs. static: Which worked examples work best? Poster submission to the 2020 meeting of The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society. [pre-registration]

In Preparation:

  1. Smith, H., Damoah, K., Heffernan, N., (in preparation). Can Spatial Reasoning Predict Performance in an Online Geometry Assignment? Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tJknStutoNBH8qgXPXqzhSOWTJL4WdkD/view?usp=sharing

Heffernan, C. (2019)