Our My Reading Academy, My Math Academy, and My Reading Academy Español programs are mastery-based applications that leverage adaptive learning technology to personalize each student's learning experience.
At the core of these School Solutions lies our Personalized Mastery Learning System (PMLS), the digital learning component that provides direct support to learners throughout each of our programs.
- Personalized Mastery Learning System: Repetition and Advancing
- Personalized Scaffolding and Feedback
- Most Common Reason that Students Report Repeating Actities
Personalized Mastery Learning System: Repetition and Advancing
In these adaptive learning environments, each student progresses at their own pace. Some students might require more time and practice on certain topics before moving on to new ones. As a result, the Personalized Mastery Learning System could provide similar activities for each student to repeat multiple times with a different dataset to ensure they fully grasp the material.
It is also important to remember that repetition plays a vital role in the learning journey. It’s common for students to need multiple exposures to a concept or skill in order to achieve mastery. If students are frequently engaging in the same activity, it's likely because they are working toward a deeper understanding or fluency in that particular area.
A student, may for example, start on the Easy setting for an activity and pass, then move to a more challenging Medium level (so they are "repeating," but still advancing). On the Medium level (which looks the same as the Easy level), the student may get some questions wrong and repeat that Medium level again. After passing the Medium level, the student may move on to a Hard level (which is, again "repeating" but advancing within the activity). The student then may need to do the Hard level a couple of times to demonstrate mastery of the skills within the PMLS.
Personalized Scaffolding and Feedback
By consistently assessing learners and gathering data about their knowledge and progress, My Reading Academy and My Math Academy can provide personalized scaffolding structures and formative feedback tailored to each student.
This level of personalized support requires continuous practice to build foundational skills. Students might be repeating activities to enhance their skills gradually.
Most Common Reasons that Students Report Repeating Activities
- The student answered incorrectly so does not advance and gets another chance to demonstrate mastery.
- The student answers correctly on an Easy level of the activity and advances to a Medium and then Hard level of the same activity. This may "feel" like repeating but it is demonstrating mastery and progressing.
- The student is playing an activity type that is designed to repeat. Some activities, notably a few memorization games based on the Leitner System, a spaced repetition technique for learning with flashcards, achieve their goal based on defined rules of repetition.
- The student has moved to another related activity that looks visually similar, so they may not realize the activity is new.
- The student may have inadvertently exited the game (pressing the back arrow), closed a browser tab, or had their browser or device crash.