no code implementations • 18 Oct 2023 • Ilya Musabirov, Angela Zavaleta-Bernuy, Pan Chen, Michael Liut, Joseph Jay Williams
In adaptive experiments, as different arms/conditions are deployed to students, data is analyzed and used to change the experience for future students.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2022 • Angela Zavaleta-Bernuy, Qi Yin Zheng, Hammad Shaikh, Jacob Nogas, Anna Rafferty, Andrew Petersen, Joseph Jay Williams
Adaptive experiments can increase the chance that current students obtain better outcomes from a field experiment of an instructional intervention.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2022 • Fernando J. Yanez, Angela Zavaleta-Bernuy, Ziwen Han, Michael Liut, Anna Rafferty, Joseph Jay Williams
We highlight problems with these adaptive algorithms - such as possible exploitation of an arm when there is no significant difference - and address their causes and consequences.