concerned with changing; able to change when necessary in order to deal with different situationsCheck pronunciation: adaptive

Adaptive training programs adapt themselves to the skill level or preferences of the learner.

Often used in 'adaptive systems', the term 'adaptive' refers to interacting entities that individually or together are able to respond to environmental changes or chang [..]

(adj) having a capacity for adaptation

Developing an individual's strengths and conditioning the ability to overcome a disabling condition. [Click Here to Return to List]

management Adaptive management is a systematic approach for continually improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of operational programs.

A form of individually tailored testing in which test items are selected from an item bank where test items are stored in rank order with respect to their item difficulty and presented to test takers during the test on the basis of their responses to previous items, until it is determined that sufficient information regarding test takers' abil [..]