Review of SAM Learning
Nov 2024
I would like to see more instruction led activities. There is also no way of checking answers that require independent learning and across all the schools I have worked in, the students will type anything. I would also want it to have voice enabled tasks, for special educational needs students.
Reply from SAM Learning:Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, Bola. We’re glad to hear that SAM Learning has been beneficial in reducing teacher workload and significantly improving attainment, especially as a revision tool and for setting intervention work. It’s also great to know that it’s helping students in your special school keep track of their learning.
We appreciate your suggestions on areas for improvement, and I’d like to address them:
Instruction-led Activities: While SAM Learning is designed to support independent study, we are exploring ways to incorporate more instruction-led activities to better guide students. I’d be happy to hear your ideas on what types of instruction would be most valuable.
Checking Open-Ended Answers: We understand the importance of providing tools to check open-ended responses. While our platform automatically marks closed-question tasks, we are actively looking into features to support self-assessment and teacher review of free-text answers.
Voice-Enabled Tasks: Supporting students with special educational needs is a priority for us, and voice-enabled tasks are a fantastic idea.
Building Student Knowledge: While SAM Learning focuses on reinforcing knowledge through practice and revision, we continuously work to enhance features that deepen learning and understanding. If you have specific suggestions, we’d love to hear them.
Your feedback is invaluable in helping us improve SAM Learning and better serve educators and students. If you’d like, we can arrange a meeting to discuss these ideas further and share updates on how we’re addressing them.
Thank you for your continued support and for using SAM Learning to make a difference in your students’ learning journey!
Bola Macarthy found SAM Learning:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“marking reduces”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Students have been using it as a revision tool and teachers have been setting intervention work on it. We are a special school, so we have been able to ensure students keep track of their learning.”
- Significantly improves attainment“See”
- Does not significantly build student knowledge
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