Math Intervention Cycle
The Intervention Cycle of Adaptive Motion eliminates the random aspects of ordered navigation decisions by weighing the course content and the student's struggles. The Intervention Cycle can be entered a total of three times and includes the following instructional strategies:
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Sequential Practice: During Sequential Practice, Mixed Presentation stops and the student receives more exercises of the same type before Adaptive Motion determines the next move.
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Tutorials: The Intervention Cycle offers step-by-step tutorials and scaffolded tutorials. Tutorials provide instructions on how to complete an exercise or they can give the student opportunities to experience the skill in another context.
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Step-by-step tutorials: Lead the student through three instances of exercises that meet the objective. This explicit instruction and guided practice provided in 100 step-by-step tutorials helps to solidify concepts and problem-solving procedures.
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Scaffolded tutorials: Help the student learn a concept by moving the student from concrete activities to more abstract problem solving. Scaffolded tutorials also include an Adaptive Motion that determines if the student needs to be moved back to a more concrete presentation. In Scaffolded Tutorials, the students are presented two, three-step problems to help them learn a concept:
Step 1: The student is presented a problem similar to the concept of the skill objective in which they are struggling.
Step 2: If the student answers incorrectly, the program assumes that the student needs to have problem simplified or restated.
Step 3: If the student answers incorrectly again, the program moves the student into a third step that presents the instruction with concept-building, hands-on activities. This final step relies heavily on virtual manipulatives and visual models.
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Prerequisite Skill: The student then receives exercises from a Prerequisite Skill to reinforce understanding of the current skill.
After intervention, the skill is placed back into the mix of exercises being presented through Mixed Presentation. The student has another opportunity in a set of 6–8 exercises to show understanding of the skill.
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If understanding is proven, the skill is marked Mastered (complete) and the student moves on.
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If understanding is not proven, the skill can be placed into Reteach and enter the Intervention Cycle up to three times.