Over the past few months, we’ve been running a beta test on our new feature—the Dream Point Booster. Teachers often tell us that guessing behaviour is a major frustration with digital education tools: what good is practice, even with the best programs, if students are just clicking through without really
Over the past few months, we’ve been running a beta test on our new feature—the Dream Point Booster. Teachers often tell us that guessing behaviour is a major frustration with digital education tools: what good is practice, even with the best programs, if students are just clicking through without really engaging the content? The Dream Point Booster was designed to address that challenge, to boost student accuracy while discouraging and demotivating guessing, all without taking the fun out of the game. We’re really excited to share some early results from the beta. What is the Dream Point Booster? The Dream Point Booster is a meter that is tied to a students (recent) question accuracy. At it’s most basic, the more accurate students are when they answer questions, the higher the arrow will climb and when they get questions wrong, the arrow will dip. Depending on what zone the arrow is
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