Most instructors using adaptive courseware believed it improved student learning and would use it again¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? 89 percent of courseware-using instructors believed the product had improved student learning and 90 percent would use it again; two-thirds checked whole-class dashboards weekly or more. → Digital Promise 2020

Evidence¶

Digital Promise 2020¶

Digital Promise. (2020). Every Learner Everywhere and Lighthouse Institutions: First-Year Experiences. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/abf8db78-dc7a-4f4f-b06a-b00d1bda63e8 doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/99

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Online survey of instructors at nine of 10 piloting institutions; 39 courseware-using respondents (45 percent response rate). Most used blended approaches with 36 to 65 percent of learning through courseware; "Two-thirds (66 percent)" looked at whole-class dashboards weekly or more.

"A large majority of the instructors who used adaptive courseware in fall 2019 Every Learner Everywhere pilots (89 percent) believed using the product had improved student learning."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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