Additional assessments after the Initial Assessment are triggered
automatically by the system based on the student's rate of progress and
on the amount of time the student has spent working in
ALEKS. ALEKS triggers the following automatic assessments:
Progress Assessment, when the student has mastered approximately
20 topics in the Learning Mode and spent at least
5 hours working in ALEKS since the last assessment.
ALEKS will not
trigger this assessment if the class is set up with ALEKS objectives.
Periodic Assessment, when
30 days have passed since
the last assessment.
Objective Completion Assessment, when the student
completes the material of
an ALEKS objective, or when
the due date of an objective passes (Sec. 6.3.3).
Goal Completion Assessment, when the student has
completed the final topic of the pie chart. If the assessment does not confirm
the student's mastery of the class materials, the student will return to
the Learning Mode. Consequently, more than one Goal Completion Assessment
is possible, but ALEKS will not reassess the student if a only small
number of topics need to be relearned.
These are all "progress"-style assessments. Some modification of
the parameters given above is possible; please contact ALEKS Corporation
Customer Support for assistance if you would like to adjust them.
Note that a Progress,
or Periodic
Assessment "resets the clock," so that assessments do not occur one on
top of another. In general, ALEKS will avoid triggering unnecessary
re-assessments.
Progress made by the student through the Learning Mode, or as the result
of an assessment, periodically updates the list of available topics,
displaying a new pie chart and new choices of concepts the student is
"ready to learn." The automatic assessments check the students'
retention of recently learned material, and may also include a few topics
the student is ready to learn.
NOTE. Automatic assessments may be postponed due to a scheduled assignment.
This occurs when the assignment has the "Prevent automatic assessments"
box checked (Sec. 6.4.6).
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