edapt Platform Glossary - Faculty
concept: a focused group of related information or skills. Learning objects within a concept teach these specific ideas or abilities.
intervention: When a student struggles with a concept or its prerequisites, the student is placed in intervention after remediation.
mastery percent: The score a student must reach to show mastery of a concept. Scoring below this may trigger scaffolding to a prerequisite concept.
grade: A measure of the student's performance for a concept or unit, based on mastery scores; however, a grade may differ from a mastery score based on gradable steps or late grade edits.
prerequisite: A foundational concept that supports another concept. Students are scaffolded to it if they struggle with the original concept.
remediation: When a student scores below the mastery percent, they are automatically moved to the prerequisite concepts for review.
scaffolding: The process of providing prerequisite concepts to help a student who is struggling with the current concept.
unit: A collection of concepts within a learning path. Students complete one unit before moving to the next.
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