Adaptive vs. Non-Adaptive Strategies When Presenting Problems

Control

Student do a harder skill builder with problems like the ones below

Experiment

The student starts by taking the pretest question below

If the student gets the pretest question correct they go on to doing a hard problem set with questions like the one below

If the student gets the problem wrong they see the following message

They must then complete an easy problem set with questions like the ones below

Then they see the following message

And lastly they move onto the harder problems like the one above