Problet Stages

• Registration: Students will enter information about themselves, including their name, name of the school, and optional demographic data such as their academic status, gender and race. The demographic data will be used to analyze the results.
• Pre-Survey: Students will rate their knowledge of the topic by filling out a survey containing 3-5 multiple-choice questions.
• Usage Instructions: Instructions for using the problet will be displayed. These instructions are again displayed for each problem, and are always accessible from the Help menu.
• Trial Run: Students will familiarize themselves with the user interface of the problet by solving 2-3 trivial problems.
• PreTest: Students will answer a pretest consisting of a pre-defined set of problems. They will have a fixed amount of time to complete the test. They will get no feedback during the test. The problet uses the data collected during the pretest to adapt the problems that it generates during the practice stage.
• Practice: Students will solve problems on only those learning objectives that they have not mastered, as is evident from the pretest. The problet provides detailed feedback for each problem. Since the practice session is adaptive, the number of problems solved by the students and the time spent by them on the practice session is dependent on how well they do on the pretest.
• Feedback: Students are asked to fill out a feedback form designed to collect their impressions of the problet used for practice. The form consists of several multiple-choice questions and a couple of free-form questions.
• Post-test: Students will answer a post-test consisting of a pre-defined set of problems that match the problems on the pretest. They will have a fixed amount of time to complete the test. They will get no feedback during the test. The data collected during the post-test is reported to the instructor.
• Post-Survey: Students will rate their knowledge of the topic by filling out a survey that is similar to the pre-survey. The difference between the pre-survey and post-survey responses is treated as the change (if any) in the self-confidence of the student due to the use of the problet.