GradAtions® uses robust, in-depth multiple assessments of vocabulary, reading comprehension, fluency and accuracy, and automated tutoring and guidance techniques, to help students improve their reading and comprehension skills as they are learning meaningful and relevant subject matter.
The GradAtions system evaluates the difficulty level of new materials for an individual reader, presents the reader with material at an appropriate level of difficulty, and then guides the reader through what we visualize as a ladder structure defined by the relative difficulty and relatedness of portions of the reading material.
While the student is always in control of what he or she will read next, the automated guidance tool will make recommendations that are designed to keep the student on a course that is appropriately challenging: not too difficult and not too easy.
GradAtions uses summary writing both as strategy for improving the student's ability to produce a good summary, and as a central method of assessing comprehension.
