How does the VocabularyTestOnline™ website decide which questions to present?
The program uses special formulas to calculate a “score” for each word, its estimate (on a scale from 0% to 100%) of how well you know its definition. Some of the factors that go into this calculation are: • Your correct and incorrect answer history for the word. • How many times you use the Show answer and 50/50 buttons. • How difficult other students find the word. • How quickly you learned similar words. The program presents words based on their current scores and on the elapsed time since they were last asked. It tries to avoid repeating any word “too” soon. It repeats ones with low scores sooner than ones with higher scores. As the score for a word increases — as you start to master it — you see it less often. The intelligent repetition algorithm matches the way people learn. The program only presents new words when there are none overdue for a repeat.
