For Geography
Achieve Read & Practice is the marriage of our LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible e-book, in one easy-to-use and affordable product.
Features
Easy to Use
As the instructor, you select the book you want to use. Then you decide which chapters and sections you want students to work with first, and when. Assign those sections.
Students Come to Class Prepared
Students will then read the e-book and answer some adaptive quiz questions. If they do well on a topic, then they are all set. If there are topics where they struggle, they are encouraged to re-read the material and answer a few short quiz questions
Students Have Better Performance and Instructors Can See Key Analytics
Instructors can see all this work in the gradebook, noting which students are struggling or which topics are confusing. This information can then be used to change class discussion or to reach out to particular students.
What Do Students Think?
We asked a number of students what they thought about Achieve Read & Practice and this is what they had to say.
Proven Student Success
Macmillan Learning has conducted research for several years on how and for whom Achieve works best. These data points come out of that research.
All students engage with Read & Practice at a relatively high rate, and students less motivated to succeed engage at a higher rate than those more motivated:
The average rate of engagement with assigned activities was 71%.
The average rage of meeting the target with assigned activities was 71%.
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Retaking quizzes for practice supports student academic performance, regardless of their level of academic preparedness and baseline level of motivation. If a student retakes at least one quiz for practice, they can expect that, on average, their final course grade will increase by 4 points, regardless of their academic preparation, level of motivation, or the instructor teaching the course.
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The more engagement a student had with Read & Practice, the higher they could expect their average exam score over the course of the semester to be and the higher they could expect their final course grade to be. Students less academically prepared realize a boost of about 4 percent points on their final course grade when they crossed the 80% engagement threshold and students more academically prepared realize a 13 point boost.
LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing
Research & Metrics
Reading and rereading or highlighting
Adaptive Quizzing promotes retrieval practice through its unique delivery of questions and point system. Students with a firm grasp on the material get plenty of practice but proceed through the activity relatively quickly. Unprepared students are given more questions, therefore requiring that they do what they should be doing anyway if they’re unprepared—practice some more.
Cramming is NOT an effective way.
Adaptive Quizzing promotes spacing by helping students master smaller chunks of information more frequently over the course of the term. They are accountable to read the book and practice that material over time. Spacing is particularly important for intro courses where students need to master foundational information for their major.
Quizzes don’t provide answer until they are complete
Students get immediate feedback after every question. Not only does this help them retain the information overall, but it also corrects them immediately on any misconceptions or mistakes. Immediate feedback means students are more likely to answer subsequent questions correctly. They don't have to wait until the end of the quiz to learn.
Students have a good handle on their strengths and weaknesses
The system adapts by difficulty level throughout. At the halfway point it adapts based on topic – students begin getting more questions from topics where they are not performing as well. They get an analysis by topic of how well they performed at the topic level, providing insight into areas where they need more practice.
LearningCurve has been used by over 3 million students
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The adaptive quizzing feature showed a 90% student satisfaction rating, and was consistently the most popular resource with students.
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Adaptive Quizzing accounted for 79% of all student submissions in LaunchPad.
See How Achieve Read & Practice Works
Have one of our experts show you how Achieve Read & Practice works—and how it can work for you, your class, and your students.
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