Design Personalized Exercises With Adaptive Testing Method

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Abstract

“Excessive exercises” has been a long-existing practice in the K12 schools in China. Doing a large number of items leads to students’ academic burden, which could be alleviated by exercises that allocated according to students’ abilities, known as personalized exercises. The goal of personalized exercises is improving the most ability level by doing the least items, and the key issue is how to achieve this goal. This article tries to design personalized exercises with adaptive testing method. An application study was conducted and the result suggested that this personalized exercises design did have an effect on improving students’ performance.

Authors

• Jing Dai, East China Normal University

• Xiaoqing Gu, East China Normal University

• Hong Zhou