Response to a Specific and Digitally Supported Training at Home for Students With Mathematical Difficulties

Frontiers in Psychology

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Anna Maria Re¹  Silvia Benavides-Varela²  Martina Pedron³  Maria Antonietta De Gennaro³  Daniela Lucangeli⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychology, University of Turin;Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation and Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua;Fondazione Opera Edimar;Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padua

关键词: mathematical difficulty;    digital training;    students;    home training;    app;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02039

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a shortened, specialized, and digitally supported training program for enhancing numerical skills in primary and secondary school children with mathematical difficulty (MD). The participants ( n = 57) were randomly assigned to two groups: for the experimental group, the tasks were differentiated and adapted to each student’s learning profile. Moreover, children of this group used a Web App (i.e., “I bambini contano” or “Children count” in English) for improving arithmetic fact retrieval at home; for the control group, the difficulty of the activities was graded according to the school curriculum, and this group did not use the Web App. Pre‐ to post-training measurements showed that children of the experimental group had an improvement significantly higher than the control group, in particular in arithmetic facts and written calculation. Moreover, a follow-up evaluation indicated that the efficacy of the experimental training program lasted up to 2 months after the intervention. The results indicate that a specialized face-to-face intervention along with a digitally supported training at home can benefit children with mathematical learning difficulties.

【 授权许可】

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