Pearson released a study discussing the impact its product REVEL has on student learning, and which utilization strategies have the highest impact on educators.
The study, called “REVEL Implementation Strategies for High Impact,” features five case studies of colleges that have used REVEL to increase engagement and interactivity between students and instructors within a class. REVEL is an educational platform that helps instructors track and measure how engaged a student is with online class material, and how well that student performs in class.
“The studies we released focus on the observations…educators discovered when using REVEL, largely around students’ engagement,” says John Tweeddale, SVP of Efficacy and Quality at Pearson. “We’re seeing interesting patterns around students’ performance that we’re hoping to document in deeper detail.”
Each case study explores how REVEL impacted the teaching, learning and engagement levels of students in classes at the University of Dallas, Utah State University, College of the Sequoias, Fresno City College, Florida State University and Modesto Junior College. While the case studies focus on REVEL’s impact, they also assess students’ engagement in class discussions, students’ study skills and students’ access to course material.
All case studies concluded that implementing REVEL had a positive effect on teaching, learning and engagement at these schools.
“In these studies, what you can see is by implementing a more immersive digital product…students are responding and becoming more engaged than they have been in the past,” Tweeddale says. “In each of the studies, they looked at the students who were actively using the materials and how they were performing in the course.”
From these tests and looking to the future, Tweeddale says Pearson’s product goals focus around creating an immersive learning experience for reading and thinking intensive classes. Further, he says the products will help students to communicate their knowledge more effectively.
“What we’re excited about particularly with REVEL is that it enables us to bring some rigor around data and metrics to disciplines that are more reading intensive and less homework intensive,” Tweeddale says. “Creating that type of experience gives the teacher more support and more visibility into how students are consuming content and performing in the course. I think that’s why we’re seeing the reaction that we have been to REVEL.”
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