FoL 2026
EDM

Improved Power in a Reanalysis of an ASSISTments Efficacy Trial by Leveraging Auxiliary Data

Thu Jul 2, 2:40 PM–2:55 PM · North 209
★ Notable speakers
Adam Sales — Causal inference in educational data mining; combining machine learning with randomized trial analysis; principal stratification in ITS
Mingyu Feng — Large-scale randomized controlled trials evaluating intelligent tutoring systems (ASSISTments, MathSpring); IES-funded efficacy research on ed-tech
Johann Gagnon-Bartsch — Causal inference; statistical methods for unobserved confounders; RUV (removing unwanted variation)

A reanalysis of an ASSISTments efficacy trial showing that incorporating auxiliary data increases statistical power for detecting learning gains.

Authors

Adam Sales, Kevin Huang, Mingyu Feng, Johann Gagnon-Bartsch