PCMAT, an adaptive learning platform
Couto, Paulo, Marta Fernandes, Constantino Lopes Martins, Luíz Faria · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2013
This paper is about PCMAT, an adaptive learning platform for Mathematics in Basic Education schools. Based on a constructivist approach, PCMAT aims at verifying how techniques from adaptive hypermedia systems can improve e-learning based systems. To achieve this goal, PCMAT includes a Pedagogical Model that contains a set of adaptation rules that influence the student-platform interaction. PCMAT was subject to a preliminary testing with students aged between 12 and 14 years old on the subject of direct proportionality. The results from this preliminary test are quite promising as they seem to demonstrate the validity of our proposal.