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top tip is to hover over a dot to see the date and the progress on that date.
Students should aim to be in the green “target cone” at all
times, and the teacher can set the parameters for that in the class and
individual student settings.
Quiz progress
Every time a student answers a Quiz question correctly the count
for that question increases by one. The algorithms will reprioritise the
question in the queue, but each question can be answered correctly up to three
times to count towards flight path data. So, think of each question being worth
0-3 points. If a question is answered incorrectly, it is given a much higher
priority, so will be more likely to be shown again in the near future but will
also have its count reset to zero. This is the reason that flight paths can go
down too.
If a course has 600 questions and the student has answered
every question correctly three times, that would be 1800 points or 100%. Imagine
a student that has mastered 75 questions (that means correct three times in a row),
20 questions answered correctly twice, 10 questions answered correctly once,
and 8 questions answered incorrectly. Their progress on Quiz can be calculated
as:
(75 * 3) + (20 * 2) + (10 * 1) = 275. If there are 600
questions in the set, the maximum is 1800, so 275 is 15%.
Remember that Quiz questions asked in a task also contribute
to flight path progress when the marks are released to the students.
Terms progress
Each term can be self-assessed by the student as red, amber
or green. Only green terms count for the flight path so if there are 200 terms
and the student has 30 marked green then their progress on Terms would be 15%.
When terms definitions are asked in a task, the student must
score full marks for the term to be recorded as green and have a positive
effect on the flight path. Anything less and the answer won’t count.
Advance progress
Advance is much more complex. Questions are tagged as easy,
medium or hard and students must have answered a range of questions across the three
difficulties to achieve 100%. They do not need to answer every question to
achieve 100%, but they cannot answer all the easy questions for example without
their progress being capped.
We aim for students to be “exam ready”. In classic revision that
would mean having attempted and received high marks across a range of past
papers. Smart Revise captures this by ensuring students must have achieved a
given number of marks in easy, medium and hard questions to achieve 100%
progress. For example, that could be 100 marks of easy questions, 100 marks of medium
questions and 100 marks of hard questions. Every mark is worth a point. The
harder questions are worth more marks, and therefore there are more flight path
points to be gained.
Progress and grades
There is a clear positive correlation between the number of marks
a student achieves in Smart Revise and the number of marks they are likely to achieve
in a real exam. It stands to reason, the more revision and practice of
questions they do the better a student will perform in an exam. However,
progress in Smart Revise and grade boundaries are not related. It is not
possible to say that 60% progress is the same as 60% in an exam. Therefore, we
advise caution when interpreting the data in that way. See flight paths more as
an indicator of how much students are using Smart Revise and how well they are
answering questions. I.e. the amount of content they have seen and their
confidence.
Of course, it is possible to set flight path targets to
match target grades based on exam grade boundaries, and this is a good starting
point, but always raise expectations with the flight path. Set the minimum and aspiration
targets in Smart Revise to be higher than target grades.