After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…
Testing the iTalk2Learn platform “Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get.” This widely-loved phrase from the Forest Gump movie feels fitting in relation to testing a learning programme such as the iTalk2Learn platform. You never know which problem will occur at this stage of development, where all components are…
In this post, RUB outline findings from tests on the latest version of iTalk2Learn! One of the challenges in learning fractions is that you need to have both a good grasp of the concepts behind fractions, and the skills to calculate with fractions. What challenges are we trying to overcome? One concept that may be…
At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, we’ve had a very exciting couple of weeks. We’ve taken Fractions Lab into German schools for the first time! Given the differences we had discovered between students in Germany and students in the UK when working with Fractions Tutor, we were very curious to see how German students’ react to this new state…
The iTalk2Learn project is benefiting from the expertise that Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) has in educational psychology and experimental research methods. RUB is responsible for developing a theoretical intervention model, as well as planning and organising formative and summative evaluation of the iTalk2Learn project. In this blog post, you will find out more about RUB’s…