Educational Software in and out of the Classroom
The most prominently discussed channel through which CAL is expected to improve learning has been its potential to “personalize” education, i.e., to provide content that is better suited to the learning needs of the student in question.64 Designers and evaluators of CAL programs tend to focus on several particular ways in which the interventions can facilitate increased personalization in learning. Perhaps most central here has been adaptivity—the increasingly sophisticated ability of CAL programs to harness emerging artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to model the cognitive processes of students and offer content accordingly. Cost Transformation Company in Sydeny
When teaching a full classroom of students at different levels, a teacher can only adapt so much—this has been a longstanding issue that education researchers have attempted to overcome for decades. A variety of interventions not relying on technology have been evaluated that enable students to spend dedicated time each day learning “at the right level,” and these show a great deal of promise (e.g., Banerjee et al. 2007; 2015). Such efforts can better allow students to master more basic concepts before moving on to more advanced concepts and to practice more in areas where they are struggling and less in areas that they have picked up. Business Growth Strategy Company in Sydeny
from directly tailoring content toward students, CAL programs can help to personalize learning by providing students with immediate or timely feedback. And they can provide teachers with rapid and regular data that can be used to calibrate focus with individual students, among other potential mechanisms of personalization. The program theories that guide the interventions evaluated in the studies that we review typically include multiple of the above dynamics in their respective visions. While many CAL programs attempt to improve education by facilitating the increased personalization of learning, these programs vary widely in how they do so. CAL programs can range from light-touch interventions that provide practice opportunities outside of class, to more intensive interventions that provide courses with entirely new curricula, to (in a few cases) initiatives in which schools are organized entirely around CAL or CAL-like programs. Beginning on the light-touch end, ASSISTments represents an especially promising example. ASSISTments is a math homework platform released by the Worcester Polytechnic Institute that does not require that schools adjust their curriculum or textbooks, and is available
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