# How do online practicing websites decide how much practice / repetition is 'enough'?

I've worked with a few online programs that present students with drills / exercises / etc. for a period of time before deciding that they've 'done enough' for the day (e.g. Reflex Math). How do these sites (or their implementors) decide what's 'enough'? Is there research that says that children will only be able to retain a specific number of new facts in a period of time?

• Possible duplicate here: matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/8/… – user89 Mar 14 '14 at 7:16
• Very broad question... it depends on what you want. Lightning calculator? A whole lot. Understand how it works? Perhaps two or just one examples. And it depends on the drilee: some "get" it the first round, others will need a dozen. – vonbrand Mar 14 '14 at 13:34
• I think this question is sufficiently different. The possible duplicate is asking how to balance instruction. This question is asking how online websites decide when students have practiced enough. Perhaps it should be slightly reworded though? – adamblan Mar 15 '14 at 15:56

Other sites (though, it seems increasingly rarely) use a "mastery model". Khan Academy used to do this, but I believe they've all-but phased it out. The idea here is if you get a type of question correct $n$ times in a row (where $n$ varies on the implementation), then it never asks it to you again.