Abstract: An adaptive learning system and method (“ALS”) for optimized, automated learning is disclosed. The optimal sequencing method is adaptive in the sense that it continuously monitors a student's speed and accuracy of response in answering a series of questions, performing a series of classification tasks, or performing a series of procedures, and modifies the sequencing of the items presented as a function of these variables. One goal of the technique is to teach the subject matter in the shortest possible time. The optimal sequencing method may be used independently or in conjunction with disclosed perceptual learning and hinting methods.

Abstract: An adaptive learning system and method (“ALS”) for optimized, automated learning. The ALS includes the following interrelated learning methods; an optimal sequencing method, a perceptual learning method, and problem hinting method. The optimal sequencing method is adaptive in the sense that it continuously monitors a student's speed and accuracy of response in answering a series of questions, performing a series of classification tasks, or performing a series of procedures, and modifies the sequencing of the items presented as a function of these variables. One goal of the technique is to teach the subject matter in the shortest possible time. The ALS in one embodiment also includes a perceptual learning method which teaches a student to recognize particular invariant structural elements or features of a concept and to recognize the existence, or lack, of those invariant elements in other structures.