Assessments in Achieve
If you believe in purposeful assessment, Achieve is the courseware solution for you. Assessments in Achieve are designed to support specific pedagogical intentions:
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Diagnostic and metacognitive tools like goal-setting exercises improve student self-efficacy and help students prepare to learn.
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Assessments during self-directed engagement with content and assignments serve as learning experiences, in and of themselves.
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Formative assessments for learning with feedback specific to each student’s needs.
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Summative and authentic assessments of learning allow students to demonstrate understanding and mastery
Adaptive Quizzing
Achieve’s adaptive quizzing feature, LearningCurve, helps students truly understand course concepts through intentional practice. Students come to class better prepared to participate, including first-generation college students.1 Based on learning principles designed to improve student motivation and self-efficacy, LearningCurve provides hints and targeted feedback tailored to each student’s in-the-moment needs. With the ability to earn points in a game-like manner, LearningCurve delivers an interactive and supportive homework experience for students that improves course performance.2
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.
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.
Diagnostics
Diagnostics in Achieve help guide student learning throughout the term:
At the start of the term: students complete a diagnostic practice tests to understand their strengths and areas where more practice may be needed
During the term: students work through a study plan based personalized to their specific areas of focus
Before the end of the term: Students complete another diagnostic practice test to see how their knowledge and skills have developed
