Proficiency

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Proficiency Mastery
Helping Students Recognize What They MUST
Learn and What They SHOULD Learn
Constraints Content-Heavy Course Core Skill Set
Required by Subsequent Courses Many Students
Unmotivated to Learn Details of Subject Large
Volume of Paperwork 90 Students Turning in
Work 3 Times a Week
Goals Success with Analytic/Synthetic Thinking
Required for an A (4.0) While Mastery of Core
Skills is Needed to Pass (2.0) Students Can
Progress Toward Mastery at Different
Rates Gradebook Clearly Reveals Each Students
Strengths and Weaknesses
Results
Preparation
Execution
Students Involved 69 Students Retained 93
Achieving Overall Proficiency 70 Achieving
(or Close to) Overall Mastery 19
Carefully Divide Learning Outcomes
One Test, Two Sides, 30 Minutes to Spend as Needed
Proficiency
Mastery

• Evaluate using function notation
• Recognize functions in tables and graphs
• ID domain range of basic (connected) functions

• Evaluate using a graph
• Recognize functions given in words or graphs
• Find domain, range of complex relations (incl.
  disconnected)

Performance on Functions Proficient Mastery
On 1st Attempt 67 6
By the Final (3rd Attempt) 88 27
On Final Itself 65 8