How are your kids doing?

If you're not sure, there are ways to find out in Skills Iowa's programs.  

In Assessment Center, click on the Reports link on the left side of the page.  This will take you to a set of reports that you can use for this class. Two reports stand out above the rest for checking on a class: Assessment Results and Overall Skill Performance.

Assessment Results will give you information about how the class has done on an assessment. It will break the class into four performance groups and it will also show you how your students did on each skill assessed in the assessment.

Overall Skill Performance allows the aggregation of assessments and shows you how students did on a series of assessments. If you have assessed a reading skill over the course of four assessments, this report will put all of those assessments together in one report.

In Skills Tutor, the reports link is available on the very first page. By choosing the class and the desired report, you can get a good idea how a class is doing as well as how individuals are doing.  Two reports that get a lot of use are the Gradebook and the Student Detail reports.

Gradebook is under Assignment Reports. This will show how each student has done on one selected assignment. It looks just like any gradebook except all of the math is done for you.

The other Skills Tutor report that tells a lot about a single student is the Student Detail report. Choosing all of the students, the correct modules, and the time period will show you how often a student has done the lessons, how much time he/she has spent, what time of day they were done, as well as the score and percentage. This is an excellent report to use to conference with your students.

If you have not used Assessment Center, there is no time like the present to get started. An assessment that covers the essential outcomes that you have taught in the first half of the year will show you where you and your students have been successful and where there are still gaps.  The whole concept of formative assessment is made quite simple with Assessment Center.

If you have any questions about how to proceed with the reports or the use of the programs, please contact your project leader.