The ALEKS Pie Report features a color-keyed pie chart showing the
breakdown of student learning for the average of all students in the
class, letting instructors see at a glance how well students are meeting
the class goals. This report allows instructors to group students
easily based on their prerequisite knowledge and to direct instruction
according to what students are ready to learn (Fig. 6.10).
You can use the "Show" drop-down box to filter the report by "Current
Learning," "Most Recent Assessment," or "Initial Assessment." The
"Current Objective" title and the dotted lines on the pie chart are
displayed only when "Current Learning" is selected and the class
is set up with Intermediate/Chapter Objectives. Complete details on
which topics students have mastered, not mastered, and are ready to
learn in the class are available in the section below the pie chart
and can be viewed by Objectives (if you are using Textbook Integration,
Objectives, or Modules in the class) or by ALEKS Table of Contents
(Sec. 6.3.2).
In either the ALEKS Table of Contents tab or the Objectives tab (when
present), you can toggle between viewing and hiding topics. To preview a
sample problem of a topic, click on the topic name. ALEKS generates a
new instance of the problem each time you click on a topic name.
If you click on a percent link for a topic you will see a breakdown
of student mastery for that topic. You can send a message to students
directly from this report, and view additional topics that a group
of students is ready to learn. The topics with the highest numbers of
students "Ready To Learn" are the ones ripest for classroom presentation;
trying to teach topics with low numbers in this display is more likely
to produce boredom and frustration, because most students either have
learned them already or are not yet ready for them
(Sec. 8.5).
NOTE. Students who have not taken an Initial Assessment will not be
shown in this report, but they will be shown in the Excel spreadsheet
downloads. The Excel spreadsheet (sub-slice) download shows the
number of topics each student has mastered and the number of topics they
are ready to learn for each sub-slice of the ALEKS Pie. If Objectives
or Modules are used in the class, a third
download link will be available to "Download Excel Spreadsheet
(Objective)."
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