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Personalising learning at scale Even when teachers know exactly where learners are struggling, creating truly differentiated pathways for every child can be overwhelming. Adaptive Learn removes this workload by automatically adapting to each learner’s responses, pace and level of confidence. As pupils work through personalised sequences of questions, the resource adjusts in real time –providing stretch where learners are secure and support where they need it most.
When a learner answers a question correctly or incorrectly, the system determines whether to provide stretch or additional support. In addition to this, learners are prompted to rate their confidence level (Know it, Think I know it, Not sure, or Don’t know it) – this measures learner metacognition and indicates to the system whether the learner has guessed the answer, has a misconception, or isn’t confident in their answer (despite getting it right). These two inputs (answer and metacognition), plus time taken, are what prompts new questions to be generated according to the learner’s need. Much like a personal tutor, Adaptive Learn tailors content to the individual learner and provides instant feedback. No two students will take the same learning path. But all of this isn’t happening in a vacuum. Teachers can keep up with learners’ homework status in the Reports dashboard. Here, they will also see the learning objectives that learners are struggling with most to help plan their lessons. Metacognition data is also available here, so teachers can see on an individual and class level, what proportion of learners were aware that they knew the right answer and what proportion weren’t. For more information on metacognition, read this brilliant article by Anoara Mughal, metacognition specialist.
Making evidence-based decisions Hachette Learning partnered with a number of schools who trialed Adaptive Learn through the early phases of development, giving feedback on what they liked and didn’t like, and took time to understand customers and worked closely with educators, learners, academics, awarding bodies and partners to develop Adaptive Learn. It is evidence based, and founded on research with real schools, teachers and learners’ needs and aspirations.
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