1. 30 Minutes to Spend as Needed
Want All Students to Master the Basics While Maintaining High Standards?
Have Students at Very Different Levels?
Proficiency & Mastery
Helping Students Recognize
What They MUST Learn
and What They SHOULD Learn
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Constraints
Content-Heavy Course
Core Skill Set Required by Subsequent Courses
Many Students Unmotivated to Learn Details of Subject
Large Volume of Paperwork: 90+ Students Turning in Work 3 Times a Week
Goals
Success with Analytic/Synthetic Thinking Required for an A+ (4.0) While Mastery of Core Skills is Needed to Pass (2.0)
Students Can Progress Toward Mastery at Different Rates
Gradebook Clearly Reveals Each Student’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Erik M. Scott
Math Instructor
Results
Preparation
Execution
Students Involved: 69
Students Retained: 93%
% Achieving Overall Proficiency: 70%
% Achieving (or Close to)
Overall Mastery: 19%
Carefully Divide
Learning Outcomes
One Test, Two Sides,
30 Minutes to Spend as Needed
Proficiency
Mastery
Evaluate using function notation
Recognize functions in tables and graphs
ID domain & range of basic (connected) functions
Evaluate using a graph
Recognize functions given in words or graphs
Find domain, range of complex relations (incl. disconnected)
Performance on Functions
% Proficient
% Mastery
On 1st Attempt
67% 6%
By the Final
(3rd Attempt)
88%
27%
On Final Itself
65% 8%