Viewing Mastery Zone

The Mastery Zone report displays a group (district, school, teacher, or period) mastery level for each item, standard, strand, and overall test. These group mastery levels can be compared to the school, district, or Pathways projected mastery levels. An important element for a teacher or administrator to note from this report is any item, standard, or strand that falls notably below other student groups or projected performance levels.

1. Select which school, teacher, and/or period to view.
2. Find general assessment data here. 
3. Select the level of data to view: by item, standard, strand, or overall. 
4. Hide or show school, district, and expected averages. 
5. The green lines at 60% and 80% provide a frame of reference for educators to measure content mastery for items, standards, and strands for the group of students. On benchmark assessments, generally speaking, 60% represents proficiency and 80% represents advanced performance. 
6. Sort performance from high to low, or as a comparison to the district or ELS average. 
   1. The ELS average is determined by referencing each students' baseline scores (previous year's State Test). ELS average is therefore limited to tests that have baseline scores from the previous year.
7. Link to resources and content related to the standard. 
8. Performance data for the group.

Calculating Expected Averages in Pathways Benchmarks 

To forecast student performance, Pathways uses their previous state assessment performance level (baseline). These baseline performance levels, coupled with a Probability Matrix (PM) that calculates the average percent correct for ALL students of a similar baseline PL, predict the expected average for that student for each test item, standard, and strand. These individual expected averages can then be rolled up into a group-level expected average, useful for evaluating classes, teachers, schools, or districts. See How Does Pathways Calculate Expected Performance? to better understand this process.