About the Company
This is a tale of two companies joining forces with Realizeit to deliver an innovative solution for helping teachers prepare for their certification exams. One company specializes in testing, assessment, and certification where the other brings expertise in teacher training and professional development.
The testing organization is a leader in the field known for assessments built on rigorous research and an uncompromising commitment to quality.
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Challenges and Objectives
Test-taking confidence was impacting the ability to supply enough qualified teachers.
Challenge: Teacher Supply
While the demand for teachers keeps increasing, the supply of qualified new teacher candidates is suspect. Furthermore, there is a concerted effort to get more minorities into the teaching ranks in every state across the country. However, certification examination success was lagging for with African-American and Hispanic minorities.
Challenge: Confidence
At the root of lower test performance is an overall lack of confidence. There are two reasons why these candidates struggle. First, a candidate’s knowledge of the subject matter may be insufficient, likely because it has been many years since they studied the subjects they intend to teach. The second reason is test-taking anxiety. For many reasons that vary between candidates, some people are just not as comfortable with test taking, especially when they have not been in a testing situation for years.
Objectives
- Solve the candidate failure-rate problem by creating a more personalized, adaptive test preparation product designed to improve test passing rates.
- Prepare teacher candidates to enter the certification with more confidence and more mastery resulting in greater success on the exams.
Solution
All three firms worked together to design and create the revised test preparation suite aimed at enabling a diverse group of aspiring teacher candidates to achieve their goal and become certified as professional teachers. Given that the teacher candidates are generally starting from varying levels of skill in each subject, the adaptive and personalized approach helps them prepare faster and validate that they know the material sufficiently as the system guides them on a personalized test preparation pathway.
Visual learning
Visual learning map showing achievement toward the goal.
Virtual assistant
A virtual assistant to encourage learner progress.
AI-based guidance
AI-based guidance to slow down when more practice is recommended and speed up when sufficient skill levels are demonstrated.
Practice question automation
The system automatically generates practice questions saving significant effort that would be spent creating a question and answer repository.
Benefits and Results
Realizeit’s approach to adaptive learning is, by its nature, constantly assessing strengths and weaknesses and optimizing the time to reinforce and shore up each learner’s knowledge. The learning GPS interface engages learners to spend more time on the areas of greatest need.
Visibility
The visibility each candidate gets into where they started and where they are now builds that confidence and encourages them to keep going.
Focus
Learners focus on the greatest areas of need while also confirming that their strengths are at the right level to be successful.
Reduced anxiety
Reduced anxiety at actual test time drives greater success in achieving certification.
Efficient test development
Reduced the effort for test developers by leveraging automated question generation.