Data Driven Instructions
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What is the big picture
Up to this point, Assistments has only allowed problem sets to be assigned at the class level. Data driven instruction is a different approach which allows for assignments to be assigned to a subset of the students in a class based upon their performance on current assignments. For example, kids who do very well on a problem set will be given an enrichment problem set. To facilitate this, Assistments now has individual assignments. This is coupled with "Data Driven" buttons on the item report, and soon other reports, which allows you to utilize this feature.
Some Assignments You Can try
Data Driven Assignments
We now support teachers assigning individual assignment to groups of students based upon their performance on a current assignment. For example, you can assign all students who received at least a 90 on an assignment an enrichment assignment, and for those kids who did poorly, you can assign them another review assignment. Currently, the only report that allows you to assign differentiated instruction is the item level report. The following picture shows you the two supported types of individual instruction that you can assign.
To the teacher, they are currently viewed as just a regular assignment, but we are working hard on that. We will soon also put the i after their name with a button for you to view who you assigned this problem set to and based upon what criteria (i.e. data driven).
Data driven assignments based upon student overall average
When you click on one of these links, they open a page which allows you to specify more options. We first have you select which students are to be assigned a data driven action.
This is a little confusing Our first option box asks what to do with kids who did not start the assignment. You can either choose to include or exclude these kids. Our hope is that most kids will have at least started the assignment and so whatever you put here will not matter very much.
What about the kids who started We can either automatically include\exclude these kids. We can also include them if they meet the other conditions, which basically means, if for the amount of work that they have done on the problem set, if say their average is within a certain range, we assign them the new problem set even though they are not done.
The example below is shown for their assignment based upon overall average.
A - You are allowed to enter one problem set number. If you don't know problem set to assign, we include our problem set search feature at the bottom of the page. As more teachers assign material, we will show you what other teachers are assigning. We are also working on infrastructure of recommended problem sets to assign. Also, you can always assign the same problem set again.
B - This is the lower bound for the average. If you want to assign a problem set to all students who scored between 0 and 60, you can make this value 0 or even -1.124.
C - This is the upper bound for the average. In our example you would write 60 here. Warning:: The item report rounds averages based on the 0.5 rule. What you enter here is based upon non rounded averages.
D - If a student started the assignment but did not finish it, you can choose to include or exclude them. This is currently not implemented, but it will soon be a three valued option. You can automatically exclude or include them, or you can include them if they meet the other conditions.
E - You can automatically exclude or include students who did not start the assignment.
F - The problem set is only assigned to students who answered at least F number of problems.
G - This is how many days in advance to release the problem set. 0 here means that it will be released right now.
H - This is from the release date how many days will the students have to do it. Be careful since it is not saying that it will be due in H days from today, but in G+H days from today.
What about ARRS
I - Don't want your students in an ARRS class to get bogged down if you assign them data driven skill building (mastery) problem sets? Don't worry, we provide you the option of whether or not you want the problem set (A) to be included or excluded from ARRS. If it is included, then just those students who it is assigned to will have to master it and then relearn it according to your class settings. If it is excluded, the students will only have to master it and no check boxes will appear next to it. If your class does not have ARRS (automatic reassessing and relearning) enabled, you can ignore this question. If the problem set that you are assigning is not mastery, this setting can also be ignored.
J - There is one last text box where we ask you for the reason for assigning this problem set. This will help us in our research and developing recommended problem sets, so please write something descriptive here.
K - This is our search feature to look for problem sets to assign
Item Report and Skill Building Report
- Includes using the Data Driven button from an item report
- Includes both static and skill building set reports
Individual Assignments
We now support individual assignments. These are assignments which are only assigned to certain students in your class. We wanted minimal invasiveness of these assignments, and so they look very similiar to regular assignments.
What do they look like
To the student, they appear just like normal assignments except for they have an i after their name. If it is a mastery assignment it will be red, and if it is not mastery then it will be black.
To the teacher they appear as a regular assignment, but we are working hard on updating this. For starters we will place an i after their name for you to know they are individuals. We will also provide you with a button to display who this problem set was assigned to and for which reason (i.e. data driven assignment).
What about the reports
Currently certain reports can recognize individual assignements. These include the item level (with\without scaffolding), book homework, and the mastery report. Our reports which aggregate over multiple assignments does not take individual assignments into account, and will count students who were not assigned as having not started it.
Teacher view
We have added in a feature which allows you as a teacher to view which assignments are individual ones and who they have been assigned to. This page is your usually list of assignments, but when you have indiivudal assignments, you will also have the link shown above.
