Mastery Check Explained
A Mastery Check is a research-based, strategically spaced quick check for understanding. Students who have concepts left to practice in the learning path are unaware that the Mastery Check is delayed. Towards the end of the learning path, this delay is more noticeable as students have fewer concepts to practice. We recommend having additional tasks ready for students at least 90% of the way through their Learning Paths.
While a Mastery Check cannot be eliminated, here are some tips:
- You can adjust the default time from 48 hours to 23 hours. To adjust Mastery check settings, click here.
- You can also change the Learning Path to have the student move to other concepts. Change Learning Path
- When students have either finished the practice within concepts or they have passed the concepts on the
Placement
test, these concepts are placed in the "Mastery Check Ready" status and are colored turquoise in the learning path. Students must have at least 10 concepts in this status (see image below)
or there must not be anything left to practice (blue concepts) in order to start receiving Mastery Check sessions.
- A Mastery Check is a type of adaptive practice and can be up to 4 concepts with 3 questions per concept for a total of 12 questions. If the student answers all 3 questions per concept correctly, that concept will be marked as mastered (status changes to green).
- If a concept is not passed, this concept goes back into rotation for practice until the student's average improves (decaying average)
This allows the teacher to now move the student into a more challenging learning path once every concept is marked as mastered!