The challenges of educational remediation

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Educational remediation is an approach that aims to create a different relationship with knowledge to help a student develop their learning performance. It is indeed a question of identifying their learning style and their way of acquiring knowledge in order to adequately help them with techniques appropriate to their personality and their needs.

The objectives of educational remediation

There are many ways to learn and among the different learning techniques, some are sometimes poorly adapted to the particularities of students. Educational remediation will focus more specifically on the shortcomings of a student facing comprehension difficulties, with the aim of facilitating and improving their learning experiences.

The educational mediator will thus observe and evaluate the way in which the student goes about acquiring new knowledge, and use different tests to identify the nature and degree of the difficulties.

The mediator will provide concrete remedial solutions so that students can more easily overcome their previously assessed academic difficulties. More precisely, the mediator supports the student to help them identify what they have not understood, offer them another point of view to understand differently, and ultimately, enable them to acquire the targeted skill.

Pedagogical remediation also allows the teacher to adjust to the students’ difficulties, and to implement the mediator’s advice. Thus, the student acquires the skills required at school, but in a way adapted to his way of learning. By learning about their mistakes and how to correct them, the student gains motivation in acquiring knowledge.

Practical examples of educational remediation

Concretely, practicing educational remediation can consist of changing media (introducing other digital media for example, or more reading), opting for another method of evaluation, adopting another pace, introducing breaks and more regular feedback, etc.

For example, e-learning can be introduced as an educational remediation technique. Online learning on educational platforms has the advantage of recording the user’s performance and automatically adapting the content offered to the student. This individualized learning mode, based on the user’s past experiences (types of errors, success rate, content studied) helps improve student understanding and results.

Conclusion. The goal of remediation is to reduce the gap between achievement and objectives and to improve the level of understanding of the content taught. For this, there are numerous techniques which prove not only very effective with students who encounter academic difficulties, but also perfectly complementary to the work of the teacher.

The educational mediator will thus observe and evaluate the way in which the student goes about acquiring new knowledge, and use different tests to identify the nature and degree of the difficulties.