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

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 exper...

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Published in:Frontiers in psychology 2020-08, Vol.11, p.2039-2039
Main Authors: Re, Anna Maria, Benavides-Varela, Silvia, Pedron, Martina, De Gennaro, Maria Antonietta, Lucangeli, Daniela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
app
digital training
home training
mathematical difficulty
Psychology
students
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02039