An Interactive Web-Based Learning Platform for Arithmetic and Orthography

摘要

Numeracy and literacy are key competencies in modern knowledge societies with insufficient skills resulting in severe disadvantages on the individual and the societal level. Therefore, we are in urgent need for effective prevention and remediation programs corroborating numeracy and literacy. In the present article we describe the development and first evaluation of an interactive web-based learning platform for arithmetic and orthography, targeted at children after primary school. The web-platform hosts several training games for arithmetic and orthography for which general and specific training effects were found in a first evaluation. Additionally, we describe how intra- and inter-individual adaptivity may be implemented to the platform. In sum, results were promising for the use of web-based learning games to complement formal education.