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You may choose to deploy your study independently by recruiting your own participants or deploy your study automatically at scale with all ASSISTments users depending on the type of study you will conduct.
Two Types of Deployment
Two Types of Deployment
E-TRIALS supports three types of studies within ASSISTments. These types are based on your approach to deployment and may alter the type of content we recommend you use. Content manipulation, patterns of assignment, and IRB requirements differ by approach, as highlighted below.
Auto Deploy
Auto Deploy
The study will be placed in the ASSISTments Content Library to be assigned by the teacher.
Can be in a Skill Builder or in OER.
Take place within student supports (hints, explanations, common wrong-answer feedback).
Random assignment occurs at the student level.
Content created or modified must fall within the boundaries of normal instructional practice (per WPI IRB).
Requires an expedited IRB exemption from your university or institute to work with anonymized data.
Requires project pre-registration with OSF.io for data retrieval.
Self Deploy
Self Deploy
The researcher recruits the subject pool.
Take place in any number of problem sets.
Can be assigned in a single session or can span multiple days, weeks, or months.
Can be studying different student supports (hints, explanations, common wrong answers) or different problem bodies and answers.
Researchers work with specific teachers to assign content in specific ways; random assignment still typically occurs at the student level but can occur at the teacher/class/school level if teacher recruitment supports these methods.
Requires a formal IRB process from your university or institute.
Requires project pre-registration with OSF.io for data retrieval.
LMS Integration for Self-Deploy
LMS Integration for Self-Deploy
ASSISTments can be embedded directly into Google Classroom and Canvas, as well as additional Learning Management Systems through integrational via Edlink. Reach out to us at etrials@assistments.org for support in onboarding classrooms for research purposes.
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