Assessment Resources in Achieve Essentials
Assessments in Achieve Essentials are designed to support specific pedagogical intentions:
Diagnostic and metacognitive tools like goal-setting exercises improve student self-efficacy and help students prepare to learn.
Assessments during self-directed engagement with content and assignments serve as learning experiences, in and of themselves.
Formative assessments for learning with feedback specific to each student’s needs.
Summative and authentic assessments of learning allow students to demonstrate understanding and mastery
Homework with Targeted Feedback
Achieve homework goes beyond just auto-grading student homework. Through targeted feedback, Achieve Homework also helps students identify misconceptions in real time and directs students to e-book and other study resources like detailed solutions to help support student understanding. Many questions allow for the randomization of problem variables, which encourages collaboration between students to work similar, but not identical questions.
Goal-setting & Reflection Surveys
Based on learning research, Achieve includes five Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys designed to be administered at specific points throughout the term for maximum impact.
Value to students: Based on learning principles of motivation, self-reflection, and self-directed learning, Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys help set the stage for student success by inviting students to identify their own goals for your course and supporting them in developing a plan for achieving those goals.
Value to instructors: Instructors gain insights into non-cognitive aspects of students’ experiences which can aid in the early identification of factors that may be keeping students from achieving the course goals they have set for themselves, empowering earlier intervention with campus resources to support student success and retention.
