Adaptivity

Personalized, Optimized Learning

Adaptive learning should be applied as one of many tools to help learners master their course material.

Our adaptive activities were designed to extend the learning by doing method central to the Doer Effect incorporated in our courseware. The Acrobatiq platform includes adaptivity in the form of personalized, scaffolded activities. To do this, the platform gathers data as students move through the lessons and do practice (learn by doing), generates predictive learning estimates, and adapts the activities to provide the optimal level of question scaffolding for each student.

Our research on these adaptive activities has focused on their effectiveness for student learning, and design best practices.

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    We found that these activities had a net positive impact on learning estimates for students, and that students who improved their learning estimates via the adaptive activities scored higher on assessments than their peers who did not.

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    We analyzed several courses and identified adaptive activity design best practices to optimize question scaffolding to benefit student learning.

The adaptive process: Students do practice with icon of tablet; Platform generates predictive learning estimate with icon of desktop computer; Adaptive activities provide scaffolding based on learning estimates with icon of lightbulb

Recent Publications About Adaptivity

Search our catalog of recent publications authored by our team.

2023
Iterative improvement of automatically generated practice with the Content Improvement Service

Published in Adaptive Instructional Systems, HCII 2023

profile Bill Jerome, Rachel Van Campenhout, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Rich Benton, Benny G. Johnson (2023)
Automatic Question Generation Adaptivity
2023
Educational data science: Essentials, approaches, and tendencies – proactive education based on empirical big data evidence

Published in Educational Data Science: Essentials, Approaches, and Tendencies – Proactive Education based on Empirical Big Data Evidence

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Bill Jerome, Benny. G. Johnson (2023)
Automatic Question Generation Adaptivity
2022
The content improvement service: An adaptive system for continuous improvement at scale

Published in Adaptive Instructional Systems, HCII 2022

profile Bill Jerome, Rachel Van Campenhout, Jeffrey S. Dittel, Rich Benton, Scott Greenburg, Benny G. Johnson (2022)
Adaptivity
2021
Investigating adaptive activity effectiveness across domains: insights into design best practices

Published in Sottilare R.A., Schwarz J. (eds) Adaptive Instructional Systems. Design and Evaluation. HCII 2021

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Bill Jerome, Jeffrey S. Dittel, & Benny G. Johnson (2021)
Adaptivity
2020
The impact of adaptive activities in Acrobatiq courseware: investigating the efficacy of formative adaptive activities on learning estimates and summative assessment scores

Published in Sottilare R., Schwarz J. (eds) Adaptive Instructional Systems. HCII 2020. LNCS, vol 12214. Springer. pp 543–554.

profile Rachel Van Campenhout, Bill Jerome, & Benny G. Johnson (2020)
Adaptivity
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