Guided paths

Report on your school

由浅入深

yóu qiǎn rù shēn — “From the shallows into the deep”

The figures a school has, what they need before they appear, and who may see them.

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A guided path · 2 chapters

Two chapters on what your school’s figures show, and who may see them.

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Adoption comes first: how many learners are attached to your school, how many have practised, and how many were active in the last thirty days.
Practised means real answers, not a single sign-in, which makes it the stricter number, and the more useful one.
Outcomes are medians: how much your learners have mastered, and how much they still recall three weeks after a review.
The school uses medians rather than averages, so one very active learner cannot move a figure meant for everyone.
Your classes are listed alphabetically and never ranked, and each one is compared only with its own previous thirty days.
Movement is the change in the share of right answers, in points, so a class that started low can still show its progress.
A class with fewer than five learners practising shows no movement at all, and says so: too small to report.
And results from the optional research tasks never appear here, whatever individual learners have agreed to.

It starts with the learner. Their learning record, product analytics and research are three separate decisions, and research stays off unless they say yes.
The optional tasks are research too. They open only if the learner agrees, and what is shared is de-identified and never sold.
Her teacher sees the class: who has practised, the medians, and who would benefit from attention, each with a reason rather than a ranking.
Opening a learner shows the same panels she sees about herself, so they are both reading the same picture.
Under Ethics, some things a teacher never sees, whatever the learner agrees to: research results, and anything she wrote in her own words.
In a class of three, group figures are withheld, because a median over three people is really one person’s own result.
The school sees adoption and medians across its classes, listed alphabetically and never ranked. A class too small to report says so.
A parent sees one card for each child, never a combined figure.
On her daughter’s page: where she is, and what would help most, in plain words.
And under Activity, one panel is left out for parents: the replay of every page their child opened.