Figure 6.13: Student Mastery

Instructors can use the Show drop-down menu to filter the report by Current Progress, Most Recent Knowledge Check, or Initial Knowledge Check.

• In the Current Progress view, the main Ready to Learn Topics for the entire pie are listed to the right of the pie.
• In the Most Recent Knowledge Check view, the main Topics Lost in Recent Knowledge Check for the entire pie are listed. This shows data based on the most recent knowledge check results.
• In the Initial Knowledge Check view, the main Topics Mastered in Initial Knowledge Check for the entire pie are listed.

These views of student results may be filtered by slice, by selecting a slice from the pie. Clicking on a pie slice will make that slice "sticky," so that the topics for this slice are displayed and do not change. The average class mastery for this slice is also displayed. Hovering over a slice with the mouse will display the name of that slice.

Topics with the highest numbers of students Ready To Learn are the ones most ready for courseroom presentation. Trying to teach topics with low numbers in this display is more likely to produce boredom and frustration, because most students either have learned the topics already or are not yet ready to learn them.

Below the pie the results are broken down further by ALEKS Table of Contents (slice), objectives (when in use), or by any applicable standards. These sections can be broken down further, and instances of problems may be seen by clicking on individual topic links. A new instance of the problem type will be generated each time you click on the topic link.

The columns in this report have different meanings, depending on the current view:

Under Current Progress, you see:

Mastered

These are topics added to the pie after knowledge check in learning mode.

Remaining

These are topics the students have not shown mastery of, whether they have attempted them or not.

Ready to Learn

This is a subset of the not mastered category, and are the topics the students are ready to learn now.

Attempted, not mastered

This is a subset of the Remaining category, and are the topics the students have attempted but not mastered.

Under Most Recent Knowledge Check, you see:

Mastered

These are the topics known based on the most recent knowledge check.

Remaining

These are the topics the students do not know, based on the most recent knowledge check.

Ready to Learn

This is a subset of the not mastered category, and are the topics the students are ready to learn now, based on the most recent knowledge check.

Lost in Recent Knowledge Check

These are topics the students knew at one point but have lost, because the most recent knowledge check determined that the students did not know the topic anymore.

Under Initial Knowledge Check, you see:

Mastered

These are the topics known based on the Initial Knowledge Check.

Remaining

These are the topics the students do not know, based on the Initial Knowledge Check.

Ready to Learn

This is what the students are ready to learn now, based on the Initial Knowledge Check.

Other features:

• If you click on the percent link for a topic, you will see a breakdown of student mastery of that topic.
• You can send messages to students directly from this report.
• You can view additional topics that a group of students is ready to learn.
• The objectives tab (when present), will contain prerequisite topics if the TREC tool added items to the class (Sec. 6.4.9).

Excel downloads. Students who have not taken an Initial Knowledge Check will not be shown in this report, but they will be shown in the Excel spreadsheets. Spreadsheets available to download include the following: Pie View, Pie and Slice View, Topic Summary by Slice, Objective View, and Topic Summary by Objective. Please note that the latter two spreadsheets are only available if objectives are set up in the class.