The Evaluation of Students’ Academic Achievements in Adaptive Environments

Abstract

In this experimental research, academic performance of the students who were grouped according to their prior knowledge levels. In the research, three different environments were developed on the Moodle platform. The environments were designed without adaptations, with content adaptations that contain changes pertaining to the presentation style of the information that is to be included on pages, and with navigation adaptations which offer the suitable links by changing the link structure. The students worked for a period of five weeks in the designed environments. A multiple choice test and a practice examination were prepared in order to determine the knowledge level of the students pertaining to the subject matter prior to the experimental process, and to measure their academic performance after the experimental process. The findings derived from the scores of the tests which were given as pre test and final test indicated that the academic performance of the students who study in adaptive and non-adaptive learning environments may differ.