Elevate My Math is a highly customizable Assessment for Learning platform used to prepare students for their math courses or for their college math placement test. It can also be customized and used as a placement resource. Elevate My Math diagnoses students’ strengths and areas of improvement in math skills that are pre-requisites for various post-secondary courses.
Upon completing the diagnostic assessment, students upgrade their skills using highly interactive mastery-based modules that provide them with feedback throughout the learning experience. Students complete a summative assessment and download a certificate of achievement that they submit to their professor.
Elevate My Math has a customizable framework to suit the required math course. The framework forms the foundation for both the assessment items and the remedial modules. It comprises two equally important dimensions: Content Topics and Sub-topics. To ensure that the Assessment for Learning program is custom tailored for the specific requirement of the math course, mathematical topics and sub-topics are identified to form the content dimension of the assessment framework. The framework can be expanded or adapted to suit the needs of a particular college or program to include modules which focus specifically on concepts for business, technology, or programs such as health, and the skilled trades, including topics such as geometry and trigonometry. Performance Expectation The assessment items and remedial modules correspond to the broader goals of mathematics teaching and learning: (A) Knowing, (B) Applying, (C) Reasoning. The framework is reviewed and finalized by professors of the math course for which the assessment framework is being designed. Test Design The assessment items are drawn from pools of items to form individual diagnostic and summative tests. The design ensures that the tests are: unique for every test taker; equally representative of both content and performance expectation dimensions of the assessment framework; of sufficient length to yield reliable ability estimates, yet short enough to complete within a reasonable time.
The interactive, voice-enabled upgrading modules have been customized and aligned to the learning objectives of the framework. They provide students with the following learning experiences: Mastery-based Learning Topics are broken down to micro-steps for students to visualize and conceptualize and engage with mathematics. Various types of interactive practice scenarios with feedback mechanisms help students master concepts. Individualized Learning Students can progress through the modules and master concepts at their own pace. Differentiated Learning Provides teachers with the ability to use the modules in class, or assign them as homework, to enrich the learning experience.
Harris Learning Solutions dashboards provide a real-time visual understanding of individual student and overall class performance as they progress through the lessons and assessments. The dashboards are used by both students and professors to identify the areas of weakness, and to improve the in-class and self-study focus. The instructor dashboard provides a real-time visual understanding of individual student and overall class performance as they progress through the lessons and assessments.While viewing lesson performance, instructors can see the average completion percent per chapter, including a lesson-by-lesson percent completed visualization for the entire class. While viewing assessment performance, the dashboard provides instructors with the average percent mark on each assignment, test, or exam. They can also see the highest mark and average mark secured on every question. This helps to identify the specific concept that an individual student or the entire class is having difficulty understanding. Instructors can also view the individual submission from each student, question by question. In this view, they can review and override marks as needed.Instructors can also download or export individual grades for lessons and assessments to a spreadsheet or synchronize the grades to the institution’s learning management system. The student dashboard provides students with a visualization of their progress on their lessons and assessments. From their dashboard they can see their chapter completion marks, including a lesson-by-lesson percent completed visualization, as well as their marks on their assignments, tests, or exams. These visualizations allow students to see their performance over time, which helps them to determine their areas of strength and concepts that require more work to master.
Powerful admin tools provide educators and administrators with the ability to customize the learning and assessment experience to support their teaching practices and curriculum requirements. Elevate My Math offers course administrators and instructors the flexibility to make a large number of customizations to tailor the course to their specific teaching style. This includes modifying assessments and upgrading, setting dates, uploading resources, etc. Numerous data visualizations enable teachers to modify the materials or their teaching focus based on student progress and performance. This level of customization creates a personalized environment where multiple instructors, who may run the same course or work in the same program but have different teaching styles, can adapt the delivery of their course to meet their individual teaching preferences.
