What are Adaptive Practice and Question Banks?
Adaptive Practice is quick to share with students and provides skill-level insights while personalizing practice for every learner. Adaptive practice questions automatically adjust in difficulty based on individual student performance. It’s great when you want students to build procedural fluency and skill mastery without building custom assignments.
Question Banks offer deeper content, more customization in assignment creation, and deeper data analysis. They work well when you want to intentionally select questions, control rigor, and closely monitor student performance and growth.
How are Adaptive Practice and Question Banks Different?
Both Adaptive Practice and Albert's Question Banks offer robust, standards-aligned practice for students. However, they are different in several key ways, and each offers a unique practice experience for students.
What subjects are covered?
Question Banks cover close to 400 unique subjects, including middle school and high school core subjects, AP® subjects, ACT®, SAT®, and select state exams.
Dive into a specific subject to view topics and subtopics, or use the Assignment Builder to search across all of Albert's library by standard or topic.
Adaptive Practice currently covers the following subjects:
Adaptive Math (grades 3–12)
Adaptive Science (grades 3–12)
Adaptive ELA — including Reading, Writing, Grammar, and Vocabulary (grades 3–12)
Adaptive Spanish Vocabulary (grades 6–12)
Coming soon to Adaptive Practice: Phonics, Social Studies, and Spanish Grammar.
How can teachers provide practice?
Question Banks: Teachers can provide practice in one of three modes:
Custom Assignments for the most tailored, flexible practice.
Learn how to customize student assignment settings, including adding timers, due dates, and more.
Pre-Made Assessments offer ready-to-go quizzes and exams, perfect for high-stakes testing practice.
Independent Practice provides self-paced practice for students honing their content mastery.
Adaptive Practice: Teachers can enable Adaptive subjects for their classes, search across hundreds of standards-aligned skills, then share skills with students via a practice link, skill code, or Skill Path.
Skill Paths: Teachers can assign specific skills to students, with optional start and due dates. Students see these on the Skill Paths tab of their dashboard. Skill Paths can be reused across the year for spiral review, and students can repractice skills to deepen mastery.
Where do students access practice?
Students use a dashboard with three tabs:
Assignments: For traditional assignments and assessments
Skill Paths: For teacher-directed Adaptive skills with start and due dates
Independent Practice: For self-directed subject practice and Adaptive practice
Note: Students can also click a class in the sidebar to view class-specific work.
How can teachers review student performance data?
After providing Question Bank practice, select from six available report types to review data at the classroom, student, assignment, question, standard, or subject/topic level. Use the drilldown feature to further distill data and best understand student performance. Bonus: download CSVs of reports for further analysis.
Note: The Gradebook feature is only available to licensed schools that have purchased the Pro-Upgrade. Reach out to schools@albert.io for details and pricing.
Understand Adaptive Practice performance at a glance: View class-level progress data using the "Compare Class" button, or click “View in Reports” for a detailed view of student time spent, questions answered, and proficiency level. Lean on pre-defined proficiency levels to clearly understand a student's progress on a specific skill.
What standards are covered?
Question Bank content is aligned to CCSS and NGSS as well as standards for all 50 states. Subjects are also aligned to AP®, ACT®, SAT®, and PSAT® standards.
Adaptive Practice content is aligned to CCSS and NGSS as well as standards for select states.
When should teachers use each practice type?
Questions Banks are perfect when:
You need complete control over content.
You are creating quizzes, tests, or curated assignments and want to intentionally select questions.
You want detailed grading and analytics.
Consider using Question Banks for:
Standards practice
Weekly quizzes
Exit Tickets and Do Nows
Targeted practice
Exam prep
Adaptive Practice is perfect when:
You want fast, targeted skill practice.
You prefer simple mastery insights.
Consider using Adaptive Practice for:
Daily warm-ups
Homework
Skills Remediation
Spiral Review
Independent Practice
How much does each practice type cost?
Our premium Question Banks are accessible only with a license. Explore our teacher, school, and district pricing.
Adaptive Practice is - and will forever be - free for all users!