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Getting ready for spring testing is a big part of the school year. Leveraging Mastery Connect can help provide teachers with a variety of tools to more easily target students for the support they need in preparation for this, and Mastery Connect can also simplify data collection for teachers through easy to access reporting features. Don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well!
Key Audiences: Teachers and Instructional Support Staff
Spiral review is an effective instructional strategy many educators use to give students multiple opportunities to access content. Implementing the spiral review practice in your classroom works best when the task is short and focused, and data is used to determine the focus of the review.
The main tracker view and Student Mastery report allows teachers to easily identify standards that students need additional support in. Identifying these standards and creating a spiral review that will incorporate them into your classroom routine provides students the opportunity to revisit previous content. This will benefit all students, regardless of mastery level.
The Item Analysis report provides teachers with the ability to quickly view student performance across each item on an assessment. Reviewing the Item Analysis report(s) may highlight specific item types that students are struggling with. Identifying these item types and incorporating them into classroom instruction with practice provides students the opportunity to be challenged and gain confidence in approaching different types of items. This will benefit all students, regardless of mastery level.
The Item Analysis report provides teachers with several insights, one of which is Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels if the items are tagged with this information. Districts with purchased item banks, such as the Mastery Item Bank or Mastery Item Bank Supplemental will find that these items are aligned to DOK levels. Reviewing the Item Analysis report(s) may highlight specific DOK levels that students are struggling with. Identifying these levels and incorporating this level of rigor and complexity into your classroom routine provides students the opportunity to be challenged and gain confidence in approaching all levels of content. This will benefit all students, regardless of mastery level.
Getting ready for spring testing is a big part of the school year. However, leveraging the tools and reporting features in Mastery Connect can help target students for intervention and simplify data collection for teachers!
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Gini is a Senior Learning Consultant on the PL&S Branch. Gini taught high school math for 9 years, and during part of this time served as a School Tech Liaison and Math Department Chair. During her time as an educator, she used Mastery Connect for 5 years and Canvas for 3 years. She is passionate about using data to improve student outcomes!
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