Students can either take the full course including lessons, submissions and a final exam, just like one of Novel’s delivery modes or choose a second mode called “adaptive assessment.”

Within adaptive assessment mode, students take an initial assessment exam and then receive a prescribed course of study. Items students have mastered are marked as “complete,” while non-mastered topics are marked as “new.” Students work through the new concepts and take a follow up assessment, which covers all of the new topics as well as the concepts previously identified as “complete” to ensure the student truly understands everything.

The preparation programs will then regenerate a course of study based on the follow up assessment. Students will not be permitted to continue on to a new course of study unless they have mastered the concepts or an educator allows them to move on. Otherwise, the student can continue cycling through the program until all concepts are mastered.

While mastery levels are currently adjustable within our Novel product, the preparation products’ (TestPak, High School Prep and GED Duo) mastery level is set at 80 percent and cannot be altered.