The final recommendations are for teachers planning to use ALEKS in their
classroom. I recommend having students use a textbook as well as ALEKS. This gives
students a choice in how they will interact with content outside class, the benefits of
which were discussed above. As much as possible, use the same terminology as the
ALEKS explanations and allow students to use the tools ALEKS uses for finding areas
under curves or computing probabilities. It may be difficult to find a textbook that
matches well with the terminology and the ALEKS tools, but it is well worth the time to
try to make these match as closely as possible. Students in this current study found it
difficult to do things one way in the computer program in class and do the same activity
another way in ALEKS. If students complete tasks one way in the book or in class and
another way in ALEKS, I recommend assigning a graded project or paper that requires
students to reconcile these differences and explain how both methods produce the same
mathematical results.