How do I tell if my student was placed at the wrong level?

Q: How do I tell if my student was placed at the wrong level? 

A: One way to assess how appropriately a student has been placed is to let them work in the program for two or three weeks. The student’s Student Skills Report will show her "Accuracy" and "Rate" for the five activities in the level. If the student demonstrates “High” accuracy and a “Fast”rate for all five activities, it indicates that the student may have been placed at too low of a level. In contrast, if all five activities show accuracy and rate of "Low" and "Slow," respectively, it indicates the student was placed too high (this scenario might can occur if they get help from a well-meaning teacher or parent during the Auto Placement). In either one of these cases it would be appropriate to reset the student and have them take the Auto Placement again or manually place them into a higher/lower level. However, all prior work will be lost when a student is reset.

Another recommendation would be to try the Skill Builders with the students before making any changes. Do stress that they will need to save any current reports before re-Auto Placing the students because they will be deleted.

 short video in response to a customers question regarding placement