Student mastery reporting (enterprise)

Overview

Student mastery reporting lets instructors review student achievement on any standard or learning objective aligned to an assignment, test or quiz question, assessment question, graded discussion, or external tool in a course. The multiple views help instructors evaluate student's learning and pinpoint students needing additional attention.

To get started, you will need:

• Standards-aligned content

• A preferred mastery grading scale.

To set up mastery reporting, navigate to Grade Setup, select Add, and then select Scale.

• Student mastery reporting is only available with Class Mastery. It is not available with District Mastery.

• This feature is not supported in courses containing more than 10,000 members. 

Use student mastery reporting

Navigate to any course and select Mastery. The Mastery reporting area displays each student's overall scores for any alignments on graded course materials. Scores are color-coded based on achievement thresholds and a star icon indicates students who have mastered the standard or learning objective.

Student mastery reporting can be customized to accommodate almost any standards-based grading model. You can also review student achievement in many different ways. These views provide context and a more complete picture of student understanding.

Mastery score calculation

Scores for each standard or learning objective are calculated using only the grades given for that specific alignment. Since assignments, test and quiz questions, assessments, discussions, and external tools can all be graded, Schoology will calculate mastery scores for each type of content to ensure accuracy.

Choose one grading scale for student mastery reporting, so each graded item, whether graded by a rubric, percentage, or point-based scale, is calculated to fit your selected mastery scale.

Student achievement overview

The student achievement overview shows the achievement levels of your entire course at a glance. As the pivot point for mastery reporting, it lets you switch to the learning objectives view and quickly drill down to individual students and objectives.

This view also shows:

• If the student meets or exceeds expectations via color coding

• Mastery progress for each objective

• Average student score per objective

• Number of graded materials associated with each objective

• If the student has achieved the desired level of mastery

This overview displays learning objectives in the order they were aligned to course materials. The objectives cannot be reordered in this view.

Gear icon menu

Mastery settings

Click the gear icon and select Mastery Settings to customize the mastery report settings.

• Set Achievement Levels to determine how student performance and mastery are evaluated.

  • Enter a minimum score for Meets Expectations to set the light green color.

  • Enter a minimum score for Exceeds Expectations to set the dark green color.

  • Enter a number for Mastery to set the times the student must meet the requirements or exceed expectations to achieve mastery of a standard or learning objective.

• Choose the Grade Overall Learning Objectives to determine how the overall grades are calculated for each standard or learning objective.

  • Select Average to display the average score from all grades for that particular alignment.

  • Select Highest Score to display the highest of all grades for that particular alignment.

  • Select Decaying Average to display an objective score using a decay rate variable to determine the relative weight of the student’s more recent scores versus earlier scores. This is the default calculation method used in Schoology's Mastery Settings, set at a decay rate of 75%.

• Select a Mastery Scale to determine the grading scale used to display the mastery scores for the course. Choose a scale from the existing options, or add a new scale in Grade Setup.

Read Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading by Robert J. Marzano to help determine which standards-based model best suits your courses. Student Mastery Reporting was designed to enable all the grading systems discussed in his book.

Student mastery reports

Click the gear icon, and choose:

• Export Summary for an overview of the mastery report, including:

  • Student names and unique IDs

  • Student score on each measured learning objective

  • The number of items aligned with each learning objective

  • Whether or not the student displayed mastery of each learning objective, displays 1 for mastered and 0 for not mastered
    This corresponds to the star icon in individual cells on the mastery grid

• Export Detail All Students for more in-depth information on the mastery report than the summary, including:

  • Student names and unique IDs

  • Every material aligned to a measured learning objective

  • Student mastery score for each of the materials

Review achievement by learning objective

Select the Learning Objectives view to display the range of scores students received for each graded material, organized by learning objective.

The box plot shows average, high, and low scores—hover to view details. You can also adjust Mastery Settings here.

Review achievement by individual student

Select a student from the main view of Mastery to display their mastery report, including overall scores for all standards or learning objectives.

Color-coded graphs show student’s scores for items aligned with each objective. Items are displayed in the order they appear in the course folder structure, letting you track student performance as they progress through the course.

Review achievement by individual learning objective

Select a learning objective from the column header on the Achievement Overview page to review student achievement. This view offers a summary like the Overview page but focuses on individual assessment results.