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- Targeted feedback and hints (example tools: Fulcrum Labs, Mathspace, SmartBook)aligned to student's specific misunderstanding or based on student's previous responses.
- Additional review material (e.g, videos, text, private tutoring services).
- Scaffolding, without changing the original sequence of skills.
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Phase | The All-in-one | The Comparison | The Recommendation | Educator Do-It-Yourself (DIY) | |
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Description of example type | Adjusts 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 | Type | academic performance data, learning process data | academic performance data, learning process data | academic performance data, learning process data, interest data | academic performance data |
Granularity + | discrete skill, specific concept, difficulty level | specific concept, difficulty level | general standard or topic | determined by the author | |
History | learner’s profile over time | learner’s profile over time | learner’s profile over time | -- | |
Analyze | Learner analysis | weighting categories, applying thresholds of mastery | comparing groups of learners’ data | comparing groups of learners’ data | correct or incorrect response |
Skill selection | few options | infinite options | -- | one option | |
Content analysis | -- | -- | usage, interest, effectiveness | -- | |
Adjust | Delivery | assigns content | assigns content | recommends content | assigns content |
Amount | group of content | individual content | group of content | determined by the author | |
Design | related content | independent content | independent content | determined by the author | |
Examples | DreamBox, Mathspace | Knewton, Waggle, CogBooks, SuccessMaker | Fishtree, Brightspace LeaP, MyLabs | Smart Sparrow |