Adaptive learning, also known as adaptive teaching, creates individualized learning experiences based on a student’s real-time, in-game performance. Rather than a one-size-fits-all experience, My Reading Academy, My Math Academy, and My Reading Academy Español continually gather information for each student and provide a custom learning experience that adapts as they learn.
Our Personalized Mastery Learning System provides the right content at the right time for each student. The system ensures that students have a strong foundation based on Architecture of Understanding.
Here are the benefits of our adaptive system:
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Initial Placement Activities: When new students start playing, we know very little about them and therefore cannot precisely recommend lessons to these students. To overcome this challenge, the system presents a number of placement activities to the students to conduct a quick assessment. The system gathers data as the students work on these activities, evaluates their skill level, and places each student at the most appropriate starting point.
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Personalized Learning Paths: The system recommends which game to play next by selecting three targeted options in a game hub for students to choose from. The system uses each child’s game-play performance to decide what they are ready to learn next, ensuring every student gets a customized learning path. The student performance history and the behind-the-scenes "node map" structure are used to make these recommendations. A node map is a network of games and their prerequisite relationships. Students move forward and backward on this map as they demonstrate more skills/knowledge or that they need additional support.
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Dynamic Scaffolding and In-Game Customizing: The program scaffolds to successfully complete a problem before allowing students to move on. It reduces the cognitive load of the task, allowing the student to focus on key concepts. The system also customizes datasets inside games. For example, when a student replays a game, we give them a different dataset compared to the first play-through. This helps us ensure that students don't just memorize the correct answer to pass a game.