Carnegie Learning Assistment Interface

Interactive flash prototype

View map of interaction.

Individuals performance within class, scatterplot

Teachers want to be able to view individuals within the class to identify those who are falling behind or most in need of remediation. A scatterplot can be used to visualize each students' progress in terms of mastery and level of exposure (or number of assistments encountered).

Individuals performance within class, tree

Teachers want to be able to view individuals within the class to identify those who are falling behind or most in need of remediation. The tree approach allows teachers to view all their students in a list and drill down within each student as they choose.

Interactive prototype with tabs

Different tabs show different views of class report detail

• Performance on state standards
• Prioritized list of skills needing improvement
• Progress over time
• Questions the class missed the most

Class summary sketches

Sketches that explore different ways to communicate class summary information. Annotations based on Design Document for Class Element.

Task Analysis

This prototype presents the teacher with the task analysis in order to explain and give context for understanding the skill.

Each skill is illustrated as part of a particuar problem. Each step is illustrated, and the design illustrated student performance on each skill. The steps are linked so teachers can follow the steps through the problem and see skills in context.

Question-based Reporting

The question this prototype seeks to answer is "what information do we need to provide teachers with so that they understand where their students are struggling". Seeing a series of problems that all include the same skill can teach by example to demonstrate what the skill is, in the context of exam questions.

This display is a class-wide display describing how many students have demonstrated proficiency in a particular skill area. Teachers can use this information to determine if the students need more exposure, or a different type of instruction. This interface would be used by teachers to determine what areas the class is struggling in. They can then analyze what particular situations their students struggle in, and what situations the skill makes sense to students.

Skill level detail

Teachers get an overview of what skills need to be addressed in the near future by their urgency (the skills could be listed by their priority with more than one skill with the same priority or it could be in decreasing order of urgency).

The individual skills are shown in relationship with the questions that address the skill and other skills related to the questions.

Linking Skills & Standards by Description

The question this prototype seeks to answer is “what information do we need to provide teachers with so that they understand where their students are struggling”.

However, a 3- or 4-word name for a skill might not be descriptive enough for a teacher to understand what it is that the students lack. A few sentences of a paragraph explaining the skill may go a long way to help bridge this gap.

Another thing teachers cannot directly derive from skill names is how they relate to the state standards – which are the knowledge targets that standardized tests assess. Generating a report showing students' performance according to the standards may also prove helpful. In addition, showing and explaining how the skills and standards relate to each other via the test questions may help win the teacher's confidence in Assisments' predictions and evaluations.

Skill Report

Generating a report showing how skills relate to state standards should be helpful in showing how skills taught in class by teachers map to their students' understanding of standards tested on high-stakes exams. This is the most basic level detail, our hypothesis is that this level of information will not guide teachers in heling their students improve.