Using Roadmaps to prepare for standardized tests

While Teach To One Roadmaps is, by design, a platform intended to meet students where they are and grow their math knowledge regardless of their current grade level, there are certain features that you can leverage to help prepare your students for their standardized tests in math.

Skill Progress Report

The Skill Progress report can be found by clicking on Reports, then Skill Progress. The report gives you a better sense of the progress across all skills comprising students’ Roadmaps. Even before students begin to work on their Roadmaps, this report can be helpful in identifying where gaps in knowledge exist across your students based on the results of their diagnostics and which skills are "Remaining."

The numbers are dynamic and update accordingly any time a student works on a skill or takes a diagnostic. Clicking on any of the numbers will display a pop-up describing which students belong to a selected category. 
All columns can be sorted so you can view the data in whatever ways are most helpful to you (i.e. sort number of skills remaining from least to greatest). 
Finally, you can click on the skill description to bring up the Skill Overview.
How can I use this for test prep?
  • Filter report data by Skill Grade to limit the report's data to only skills with a certain grade level. Take a step further by also filtering by Strands that are more commonly tested: Algebraic Thinking, Functions, and Number Sense. This will allow you to see how your students are performing on skills that are more likely to appear on the big test - perhaps you can find a skill that few students have attempted.

  • For any skill that a student may have Completed or Placed Out of, you can assign that skill to the student to take new lessons and assessments on, or simply have them take a new assessment to check their understanding.

Student Progress Report

This report can be found by clicking on Reports, then Student Progress. It is meant to give you an overview of how students are progressing on their Roadmaps. Every student who has been upgraded to Roadmaps Plus in your class(es) will be visible on this report. You can see information about each students’ current ladder, data on how they are progressing on their skills, and information about what they have been working on recently. 

As in the Skill Progress Report, the numbers are dynamic and update accordingly any time a student works on a skill or takes a diagnostic. Clicking on any of the numbers will display a pop-up describing which skills those are in detail. 
All columns can be sorted so you can view the data in whatever ways are most helpful to you (i.e. sort number of skills remaining from least to greatest). 
Finally, you can click on the student name to be directed to that student's Roadmap while skill name will bring up the Skill Overview. 
How can I use this for test prep? 
  • Try filtering the report by Ladder, so that you limit the report's data to only those skills that appear in a particular grade level ladder (otherwise, the report will show the data for both the students' grade level ladders and Algebra ladders). You can then sort your report by Skill Remaining to show which students may have further to go to complete their grade level Roadmap, which could help identify students who need more guidance.

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