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Title

The Effects of the Use of Handheld Devices on Student Achievement in Algebra - Lyublinskaya + Tournaki 2009 

Alternate Title

SITE 2009 submission 

Year

2009

Publisher

Submitted to proceedings of the 2009 SITE conference 

Author

Irina Lyublinskaya and Nelly Tournaki 

Language

English

Institution

College of Staten Island, City University of New York 

Department

Department of Education 

City

New York, NY 

Abstract

This study compares the achievement of students, enrolled in an integrated algebra course, taught with two different types of handhelds over a period of one year. One group was taught with TI-Nspire handhelds and was compared with another group taught with TI-84 graphing calculators.  The teachers of both groups received on-going professional development.  Student achievement was measured via a midyear school test, fall and spring semester grades, and New York State Regents exam scores.  Results indicated that the group taught with TI-Nspire outperformed the other group in all assessments except the Regents exam.  Further, analysis of scores indicated that girls outperformed boys in all assessments except the Regents exam, while there were no differences in achievement by race.

Reference

Report

Keywords

handheld technology; gender differences; secondary education; quasi-experiment; algebra; student achievement; New York; TI-Nspire; TI-84 

Document Content

Winner of the SITE TPACK SIG Paper Award, 2011
Attachments
algebra achievement - SITE - Lyublinskaya 2009.pdf    
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