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  • Choice and Control
    • Flexibility to override mastery levels, student skill levels, recommendations, etc.
  • Customize to teacher preference for sequencing and pacing.
  • Question: Is a dynamically created learning path actually more effective and efficient for students over time?

Features

  • MatchIndividualize: Capacity to select the best content for students.
  • IndividualizeAnalyze: Capacity to collect data on how students learn.
  • Pedagogy: Capacity to use collected data to reveal how students learn.

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  1. Targeted feedback and hints (example tools: Fulcrum Labs, Mathspace, SmartBook)aligned to student's specific misunderstanding or based on student's previous responses.
  2. Additional review material (e.g, videos, text, private tutoring services).
  3. Scaffolding, without changing the original sequence of skills.

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Adaptive Sequence Example Types

Phase
The All-in-oneComparerThe ComparisonRecommenderThe RecommendationEducator Do-It-Yourself (DIY)
Description of example typeAdjusts content based on skills the student should work on next uses weights and thresholds.Adjusts content by selecting a skill based on skills that similar students previously needed/used.Adjusts content by recommending activities that similar students found useful.Adjusts content as predetermined by the teacher for each response.
Collect

Typeacademic performance data, learning process dataacademic performance data, learning process dataacademic performance data, learning process data, interest dataacademic performance data

Granularity +
Difficulty

discrete skill, specific concept, difficulty levelspecific concept, difficulty levelgeneral standard or topicdetermined by the author
Historylearner’s profile over timelearner’s profile over timelearner’s profile over time--
Analyze

Learner analysisweighting categories, applying thresholds of masterycomparing groups of learners’ datacomparing groups of learners’ datacorrect or incorrect response
Skill selectionfew optionsinfinite options--one option
Content analysis----usage, interest, effectiveness--
AdjustDeliveryassigns contentassigns contentrecommends contentassigns content
Amountgroup of contentindividual contentgroup of contentdetermined by the author
Designrelated contentindependent contentindependent contentdetermined by the author
ExamplesDreamBox, MathspaceKnewton, Waggle, CogBooks, SuccessMakerFishtree, Brightspace LeaP, MyLabsSmart Sparrow