Funders

1. Funders

2. Welcome- Getting Started. • Make a student account in ASSISTment School. • Enroll in Mrs. Heffernan’s August 19th class. • Start doing the assignments from the top down. • GET AT LEAST HALF THE QUESTIONS WRONG!. • When you do get them wrong take a look at the tutoring. Learn what it is like for the kids who get the questions wrong.

8. The Jetson’s school must have had ASSISTments • Teachers could efficiently give benchmark assessments so students received feedback instantly while teachers collect data they can use to help plan lessons. • Parents receive notes directly related to student performance on individual problems. • Students do all their homework online so they do not have to wait until the next day to “go over” the work and get help. • Students get automatic reassessment on skills they showed mastery in.

9. What we will cover today

12. Issues we can cover today

14. The Basics Benchmark Assessment Diagnostic Assessment Mastery Learning Sets

15. Our Content.

16. Examples of Use • Skill Builders • ARRS • Benchmarks • MCAS Help • Book Work

17. Student 1 • Student 1 made a calculation error.

18. Student 1 Corrections

19. Student 2 • Student 2 had no idea how to do the problem.

20. Student 2 Corrections

21. Student 3 • Student 3 demonstrated no understanding of how to solve the problem.

22. Student 3 Corrections

23. What is left on the Agenda

24. ARRS Lets meet the ASSISTments septuplets Average 111212 Average 221212 Average 231212 Perfect001212 Looser001212 Diligent001212 Slacker001212 LOGIN: C@heffernan.com Password 1234

25. Review ARRS • Assign Mastery Learning Problem Sets to a separate class. • Toggle Settings to ARRS and decide on your settings. • Set due dates for the Mastery Learning Problem Sets to release. • Explain things to the students and look at the reports together to make sure everyone is going OK.

26. What is left on the Agenda

27. Parent Notification • Turn it on and add a sample e-mail. • This is permanent so be sure to add the e-mail to a sample student. • There are two ways to send messages. • From your message center • From an item report

28. What is left on the Agenda

29. Essay Critique • You did an essay question this AM. • Let’s see how a teacher deals with those essays.

30. What is left on the Agenda

31. Explore the Builder • Lets Build a problem Together. • On the wiki I have added a homework from CMP. • Watch what I do as a CMP builder. You can do the same thing for your book. • Add Tutoring. • Put it in a problem set and assign it. • In the problem set you can have Test Mode or Tutoring.

32. Join our Community

33. What is next Give it a try! Develop a simple routine Work with a partner teacher so you can plan and trouble shoot together. I can come down on your first or second day to help out in the lab. Join our ASSISTments Google group so you are not alone in this exciting endeavor. Get the students involved in the data let them tell you what it tells the class to do next.

34. Teacher WIKI Destination for information on ASSISTments

35. Development Team Current Students WPI and Faculty and Staff Former Graduate and Undergraduate Students