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Knewton Alta Psychology

Knewton Alta is accessible, affordable, and adaptive courseware that provides students with the support they need at the moment they need it. The Alta learning experience goes beyond homework—it pairs practice with personalized learning that offers detailed answer explanations, integrated just-in-time instruction, and remediation of pre-requisite skill gaps, all based on student performance.

All students start on the topic assigned by the instructor, and rather than relying on periodic diagnostics, the platform continuously monitors students’ performance and adapts in real-time to maximize their learning outcomes.

The data science behind the Alta technology is designed to ensure students can retain, recall, and apply knowledge in the future, and the gradebook gives instructors actionable data and insights into student performance and preparedness. The end result? Learning that lasts.

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Give your students a dynamic, personalized experience that boosts learning outcomes.

Powered by learning science, Knewton Alta Psychology covers all key topics found in the introductory psychology course, with instruction aligned to the second edition of the Openstax Psychology text.

Increase every student’s chance of succeeding in intro psych.

One of the biggest challenges in the intro psychology course is keeping students on track in a course where there are a lot of concepts to learn and mastering them is not always easy. There is a wide range of students, and many find the course challenging. They don’t have the tools to do better, they get frustrated, and they do poorly or drop out. With Knewton Alta Psychology and the strong, established learning science behind Knewton’s adaptive capabilities, you can build each student’s confidence. A personalized learning path helps learners master the many concepts and complex processes involved in the study of mind and behavior and increases their success in this course.

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Here’s what makes Knewton Alta so powerful.

Adaptive technology is at the heart of a personalized learning experience for each student.

Detailed Answer Explantions

Knewton Alta provides immediate and detailed feedback tailored to each specific question, regardless of answer correctness, to reinforce key concepts and fill knowledge gaps.

Integrated Instruction

All of Knewton Alta's content — including instructional text and video, examples and assessment — is organized by learning objective, integrated within the adaptive experience, and served up at the precise moment a student needs it.

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Timely Intervention

Knewton Alta Psychology adapts to students’ proficiency levels with each interaction. If a student struggles on an assignment, Knewton Alta recognizes their knowledge gap immediately and provides just-in-time refreshers—even when those refreshers require reaching back to prerequisite concepts.

Knewton Alta makes an impact on learning outcomes for students of all ability levels.

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