The end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90% of class time[pdf]

Re:The end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90... by ippisl on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @10:52AM (#3703413)

6.4/5.2 = 1.23 .

Is 23% improvement considered that small(assuming it's statistically significant) ?

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Re:The end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90... by pessimizer on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:25PM (#3703873)

I think you're looking at the wrong derivative. This is 23% improvement of improvement. It's still just 6.4% improvement.

Might be easier to see if you think of it as 106.6/105.2, in order to include the baseline.

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Re:The end-of-pilot report from using Khan Academy for 80-90... by ippisl on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:51PM (#3704016)

I'm not sure 106.6/105.2 is the correct way to look at it either.

Intuitively, every point you got in a test corresponds to a micro-subject.

So before the class , you knew 100 micro-subjects(which probably took a few years to teach). And you gained 6.4 or 5.2 micro-subjects during the 5 week class.

Since one class taught 6.4 micro-subjects and the other only 5.2 micro-subjects ,you can say the difference is 32%.

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