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Evaluation report
Use Case
Personalized Adaptive Learning
Subject
English
Grades
3-5
Language of Instruction
English
Content Quality
Exemplary
PEDAGOGICAL ALIGNMENT
Valuable
TECHNOLOGY & DESIGN
Valuable
Potential Benefits of this Product
For learners:
- The content on the application helps in providing the learner exposure to multiple types of texts such as stories, poems, and news articles. Further, the presence of stories and poems in varied formats read/watch/listen will positively contribute to building English Language skills.
- The presence of a personalised analytics dashboard in the form of a progress bar provides a clear understanding of the learner’s advancement in various skills such as phonics, comprehension, phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle and vocabulary.
- Across the product, learners have adequate autonomy to decide the content that they want to engage with and at their own pace.
- Motivational features present in the product can effectively encourage the learners to engage with content further.
For parents:
- Easily interpret information about the performance of the learner via the analytics dashboard and other features. In the profile section of the application they can get a summary of activity done by the learner on the app, skill wise performance, total reading time, stories read, activities done and ‘freados’(points awarded to learners) completed.
Potential Limitations of this Product
Learners will likely face the following issues:
- The operationalisation of adaptivity in the Story section (which is visualised as adaptive) is not done effectively which could hamper the learner’s ability to engage with the level-specific content.
- The product does not cater to learners with special needs.
- While there is comprehensive coverage of grade-appropriate skills in the product, the lack of explicit instruction on most of them could hamper the effectiveness of mastering those.
- The feedback provided is not sufficiently constructive. Besides the correct response, there is no scope for the learners to understand how to recover from the error.
- A lack of scaffolds in the form of hints or support during assessments or Quiz, can make it difficult for learners to progress ahead.
Parents will likely face the following issues:
- Parents might find it difficult on how to use and integrate the various offerings of the product to enhance the learning process.
- Parents might find it difficult to suggest the next content based on the child’s performance since the product lacks adequate features of adaptivity.