ALEKS - Assessment and Learning
   

6.1.6 Retention Assessment Settings

 

To access the the Retention Assessment Settings, from the QuickTables sub-navigation, select Class Settings.
Retention Assessments are given to students when they complete a table in QuickTables. Their goal is to assess the student's long-term mastery of the table. QuickTables does not have Progress Assessments. By default, the number of Retention Assessments per table is two. Additionally, by default, the number of days between when a student completes a table and a Retention Assessment is 30 days. Both these settings can be adjusted, as can a location setting for the Retention Assessment. When a Retention Assessment is triggered, QuickTables will force the student to take it so that they are not able to work in any other table until the assessment is completed.
After a Retention Assessment, the system behaves as it would after an Initial Assessment: if the result of the Retention Assessment is 100%, ALEKS displays the congratulations screen. If not, the student can continue in the Learning Mode. The system will use the result of the Retention Assessment as a starting state for the Learning Mode. The student does NOT have to work in this table and can choose another available table.
NOTE. By default, ALEKS gives two Retention Assessments per table 30 days after completion, no matter the result of the previous assessment. (Even if the student scored 100% after the first Retention Assessment, the student will have another one 30 days later.) Selecting None means that there will be no Retention Assessment for the class. Please be aware that if this option was set to one or more, and a Retention Assessment has been triggered, it cannot be canceled. Switching the option to None will not cancel a Retention Assessment that has already started.