Overview
Voovo tailors each student’s learning experience to their unique pace, strengths, and memory retention needs. By analyzing three key inputs—accuracy, response time, and memory retention signals—Voovo personalizes goals and quiz frequencies, ensuring students progress at a pace that maximizes both effort and knowledge retention.
Adaptive Learning Inputs
- Accuracy of Answers: Voovo tracks how accurately students answer questions, adjusting future content based on areas where students need more support.
- Response Time: Faster responses signal strong recall, while slower answers indicate topics needing further review. Voovo uses this data to balance quiz difficulty and timing for optimal reinforcement.
- Memory Retention Signals: Voovo identifies when previously mastered information is forgotten, signaling a need for additional review. This adaptive feedback ensures forgotten material is readdressed, boosting long-term retention.
Personalized Goals and Effort-Based Scoring
- Individualized Quiz Frequencies: High-performing students receive fewer review tasks, while students needing more practice get additional quizzes, allowing both to achieve their best without penalizing mistakes.
- Effort Over Accuracy: Students are encouraged to focus on consistent practice. Mistakes are seen as learning opportunities, with Voovo scheduling more review rather than reducing scores.
Case Study with Semmelweis University Medical School
With the support of Voovo, Semmelweis University is introducing an innovative evaluation system called effort-based grading, where each student is assessed based on achieving their own goals. Voovo’s algorithm considers factors like the speed and accuracy of their responses, whether they’ve forgotten previously correct answers and many other factors.
Each student’s goals focus on the most important material for them to practice, and achieving these goals results in a perfect ‘consistency score’. The ‘consistency score’ is based on how regularly students engage in repetition, with 100% consistency achieved by meeting assigned goals within a given 3-day period. The final score averages all consistency scores over the semester. Incorrect answers lead to more frequent reviews, potentially increasing the number of questions but not penalizing the consistency score. By mid-semester, a student with fewer mistakes might need to review 10 questions, while another with more mistakes needs to review 100. Both can still achieve 100% consistency by meeting their individual goals. This method ensures that students consistently reinforce their knowledge, making studying more efficient and tailored to their specific needs.
Engagement and Motivation
- Gamification: Voovo’s in-app experience includes streaks, daily goals, learning path progress, and in-class competitions to keep students engaged.
- Institutional Incentives: Schools can integrate Voovo into grading or offer rewards, adding an extra layer of motivation and acknowledgment for students’ ongoing efforts.
Summary
Voovo creates a supportive, individualized study path for every student, adapting to each learner’s needs while emphasizing effort and improvement. Through a blend of adaptive algorithms and gamified engagement, Voovo keeps students motivated and progressing steadily throughout the semester.