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Post date: 06/29/2017 - 00:07 - 0 Comments

Todays’s technologies has immensely impacted students. The educational parameters that were prevalent in the past are no more relevant these days. In the past, education was calibrated with several factors that lead to high potential growth among students. But today self-improvement is imperatively metamorphosing the student's interest to learn new things. However today the education...

Post date: 08/24/2016 - 01:23 - 0 Comments

As long time QWiz.Me! users know, we set out to build a training app in the style of Kumon. Incremental/ Adaptive learning. Practice to achieve mastery. But that isn’t the right style for all students. There are students that want to get to the same goal (say be a wizard at Spelling Bee), but believe they are ready for the test.

Everybody should set goals. However, what a lot of people...

Post date: 05/07/2016 - 19:45 - 0 Comments

Computerized adaptive testing is a kind of computer-based test that adapts to the examinee's potential level. Thus, it also has been referred to as tailored testing.

QWiz.Me! has a Test module for students that measure their proficiency. Here we share our research and thoughts into what we used to develop our Test module

Computerized adaptive testing successively...

Post date: 04/27/2016 - 20:40 - 0 Comments

While I originally developed QWiz.Me! as a training app to supplement my children’s academic program by automating afterschool worksheets, I recently interviewed a user who uses QWiz.Me! in an afterschool situation. I thought I would research the home school environment and share some lesson for parents who might be in the same situation as me.

Homeschool is the place where children are...

Post date: 03/24/2016 - 12:32 - 0 Comments

Getting my kids to work on extra practice has always been a challenge. It wasn’t as simple as printing a worksheet from the internet and getting them to work on it. My son specially always tried to get out of it. Typical excuses – Too hard, too easy, not enough time today, will do it tomorrow, wasn’t thought this topic or something like that. How much time he spent on video games was always...