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LAPT

Explore Certainty-Based Marking with LAPT – UCL’s Learning Platform for Active Self-Testing

Welcome to LAPT – UCL’s Learning Platform for Active Self-Testing

This is a powerful online tool developed originally for Physiology, Biosciences and Medicine by Professor Tony Gardner-Medwin at UCL to support self-directed, personal learning across a wide range of topics.

Whether you're preparing for exams, reinforcing lecture material, or exploring new areas of interest, the Certainty-Based Marking (CBM) within LAPT helps to develop your critical thinking.

You benefit by thinking how multiple strands of your knowledge may bear on each question, combining to justify confidence or uncertainty about your preferred answer.

Unlike with conventional marking, correct answers receive fewer marks if they are uncertain, while confident mistakes (misconceptions) are highlighted with penalties that should stimulate immediate reflection and learning. Students generally find CBM rational and constructive, often working in pairs to stimulate discussion. Data can be stored completely anonymously and will not be used in your assessment. Try exploring the self-tests, focussing on those topics and questions where you think you could improve your knowledge and understanding.

LAPT exercises are now in use by students outside UCL & London, and are supported offsite at https://tmedwin.net/cbm/selftests . You can click this link for general access, but if your current URL includes a ? followed by some text at the end (e.g. ?endocrin ) note this down and add it (with the ? ) to the URL at the new site. This will select a specific exercise requested by your current link.