How does the ALEKS State standards reporting work for classes?
Understand how ALEKS state standards reporting works for classes and how mastery aligns to state requirements.
This is a powerful feature that will help you see the immediate effects of using ALEKS to propel students toward Math success.
To see the report, log on to your ALEKS Teacher account, choose a class from the Class tab, click "Reports," then select “Standards”.
On the State standards reporting page, you will see a set of vertical bar graphs, one for each major strand of the state standards applied to this class. They will be filled in to show the percentage of specific standards within that strand that have been satisfied by the students in the class. Please note that you have three options affecting how these percentages are determined.
First, you can choose whether "mastery" of a standard means progress through 50%, 60%, or 70% of the ALEKS items supporting that standard.* This option is used by clicking on the underlined 50%, 60%, or 70% in the rubric directly under the vertical bar graph display.
Second, you can pick how ALEKS looks at the students' progress. The menu labeled "Display Mode" contains the choices "Initial Assessment," "Most Recent Assessment," and "Current Learning." If you choose "Initial Assessment," ALEKS will display the students’ initial course mastery by using only the results of their first ALEKS assessment; if you choose "Most Recent Assessment," ALEKS will display the students’ most recent assessment, but not take into consideration work they have done in Learning Mode; if you choose "Current Learning," ALEKS will display the students’ current learning progress, including all assessments and progress made in Learning Mode. The last option will usually show the highest level of mastery of the standards.
Finally, using the "Select students" menu, you can narrow the selection of students in the class based on hours spent using ALEKS. By selecting samples of your class based on the amount of time they have spent using ALEKS, you will be able to see clearly the effect that ALEKS use has had on students' Math knowledge.
Underneath the bar graph display is a detailed breakdown of the standards mastery by this class. You can choose to see this breakdown either by standard (in other words, what percentage of your students have mastered each individual standard) or by student (what percentage of the standards has been mastered by each individual student).