CAI and At-Risk Minority Urban High School Students

Abstract

This article describes the development, implementation, and formative evaluation of the project Microcomputer Adaptive Testing High - Risk - Urban Students (MATH-R-US). The project made computerized assessment an integral part of remedial high school mathematics instruction. The results suggest that the black high school girls in this study exhibited greater self-confidence toward using computers than the self-confidence exhibited by students in other studies that examined gender. In addition, student-created competition proved to be a crucial factor in generating high levels of motivation

Keywords:

• at-risk students
• testing
• computer assisted instruction
• mathematics