The FaCT (Fact and Concept Training) System: A New Tool Linking Cognitive Science with Educators

The FaCT (Fact and Concept Training) System provides a general platform for delivering practice in the form of discrete flashcard-like drills. The system optimizes practice schedules according to model-based predictions and can be used to deliver various types of assessment. The system’s features satisfy the real world goals of educators using a theory-driven approach that gives researchers control over the model of practice delivery. For educators it provides web deployment, automatic reporting of student practice and assessment, and the ability to tailor content for specific curricular needs. For researchers it provides data export to MySQL, pluggable model architecture, and generalized model fitting algorithms.