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• When the pupil has succeeded in answering the revision skill successfully a number of times,
they return to the skill they struggled with earlier. If they continue to fail, the regression cycle
above repeats.
Success and motivation
• More able pupils get more activities correct and progress on to new material faster.
• Less able pupils make mistakes and progress more slowly. However, when they make mistakes
they regress to supportive material they have already tackled which they are more likely to get
right.
• The net result is that all pupils achieve a fairly similar ‘success rate’ in terms of the percentage of
activities that they get correct in a session. This maintains the motivation for pupils of all ability
levels, especially at the lower ability levels because they see themselves as succeeding, while
being unaware of how quickly or slowly they are progressing in real terms.
Problem skills
• If the pupil continues to have difficulty with a particular activity, it is flagged as a ‘problem skill’
in the Teacher dashboard, and the program moves the pupil on to the next skill in the topic.
• At the start of each new session, the program determines whether any of the problem skills are
more than a month old. If they are, a maximum of two of these problem skills will be presented
to the pupil before reverting to normal activities. It is hoped that during the previous month,
either through use of the program or through targeted classroom teaching, the pupil has
progressed sufficiently in order to complete these skills successfully.
• If some targeted teaching has been offered, a teacher may want to re-test a pupil sooner than
after 30 days. Teachers can set a pupil to be re-tested on a problem skill at the start of their next
session by clicking on ‘Retest selected’ on the ‘Problem Skills’ screen in the Teacher dashboard.
• The pupil is automatically re-tested monthly on each problem skill from the date the skill is
flagged until they succeed and it is no longer a problem. The attainment criterion of the skill
controls the number of times the pupil has to get the skill right first time, before the system is
satisfied that they have attained the skill.
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