Together with Het Rijks vmbo and the University of Groningen, MemoryLab has recently embarked on a new EUR 300,000 co-creation project funded by NOLAI.
The collaboration focuses on students in pre-vocational secondary education (vmbo). For many of these students, insufficient language skills are an obstacle when doing practical assignments. They may possess the relevant practical skills on which they are assessed, but cannot always demonstrate their abilities to the fullest, because they struggle to interpret text-based instructions correctly.
The co-creation project will consist of two pillars. Firstly, we will use advanced modelling methods to map out the reading skills of each individual learner in a knowledge graph. This personalised approach will enable targeted practice of specific skills, such as being able to correctly parse co-referents in sentences, or understanding specific terms. Secondly, we aim to improve students’ mastery of general and domain-specific vocabulary, using MemoryLab’s adaptive learning system. Since this vocabulary set can involve hundreds or thousands of items, it requires developing a new adaptive algorithm and a new method of visualising a learner’s knowledge level. Together, these tools create insight into students’ strengths and weaknesses on specific language skills, and enable students to broaden their vocabulary in a personalised and effective way.
Learn more about MemoryLab projects here.
