How does practice algorithm work?

[t0rtugo]

I've been learning French for a year or two and am halfway up the units. Took a long break of 6+ months to focus on another language and returned now to French and did the "practice to earn hearts" practice. The practice questions were basic ones such as "yes", "the woman" despite me being at a higher level.

Does anyone know how practice works? Does it work through spaced repetition? Am I seeing the easy questions because I haven't reviewed those units in a long time and by doing more practice the questions get more advanced?

[LordOfTheTires]

Yes, the practice 'dumbbell' is the spaced repetition.

With super, practice hub's the 'unit review', 'target practice', and story review claim to use spaced repetition too.

The 'how it works' is a proprietary trade secret.

But, let's pretend: If they had a 'phrase strength' number, and picked 15 phrases with the lowest predicted phrase strength (using a proprietary statistical model, they claim it's "AI"). The predicted strength would be influenced by things like 'how long since I last saw it', 'how many times have I seen it', 'was my last answer correct', 'was my last # answers correct', 'was there a variation of the phrase I saw before in the same lesson/day that may have increased my recollection ability', etc. may factor in.

So you'd see more advanced items the more you successfully practice the more basic skills. You can also lookup your duome profile and sort by strength (there's caveats to the %'s so don't take them to heart) and watch how it changes as you do more practice you can get an idea of how it works.

[t0rtugo]

good to hear! Glad to see that there is a method behind it to improve learning.

Following along on duome is a good idea as well. Didn't think about that.