As I wait for my delayed flight home from TechLearn 2019 I am thinking about my presentation on personalized learning that I gave earlier today. I was asked if even though the learning content was personalized, would everyone get the same exam? I knew right away, that would be a deal breaker for some people.
I promptly responded that if the user’s actions were tracked, different tests could be assigned. Thus, the Learner Intelligence adaptive design model would personalize both content and exam. Then I thought it would be even better if exams could be further personalized with specific questions.
Having some time on my hands, I found a counter where I could connect my tablet and fired up Lectora. I created an exam with a test page and added two different questions, one titled easy and the other hard. I made both hidden by default so the test page would not show either question.
Then I created two variables, _easy and _hard, both with a default value of zero. Next, I added an action on page load to show the easy question or hard question if the corresponding variable was set to one.
On the first page of the course I placed a next button to go to the exam page and set it to hidden. The variables would be set by two buttons. One set the _easy variable to one, then showed the next button. The other button did the same for the _hard variable.
The result worked perfectly. The user would select either the easy or hard exam and then the next button would appear. The exam page showed the question selected. In an adaptive course these variables would be set by the pages the learner chose to view. As you can see, LI adaptive design can be used to create personalized learning experiences with assessments that are highly personalized as well.