First Steps to Take Advantage of Skill Mastery Access
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Submit your information through the following online form:
www.Quote@REAPeducation.com
Please ensure that anyone who requests access can serve as an account admin and can speak on behalf of the district. - A member of the REAP Education team will reach out to you via phone and/or email to understand your implementation and district requirements.
- After this information has been sent, the REAP Education team will provide an order form for signature within three business days.
- You will receive your login credentials and getting started tools after receipt of your signed order form to begin using Skill Mastery!
General Implementation
Skill Mastery is currently available for all K-12 students in reading, language arts, and math.
Research indicates that students are most successful if they spend a minimum 20-30 minutes in the program per subject, per week. We find students who spend a minimum of 90-minutes a week have greater success.
Skill Mastery offers 100% mobile optimized content and therefore can be used on any Internet- enabled device. This includes mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. System and technical requirements can be found here. Additionally, our Customer Support team is available to assist with individual account needs.
working below, on, or above grade level, Skill Mastery first works to understand a student’s specific learning needs and then creates a pathway based on each learners’ individual strengths and
Yes. Skill Mastery is accessible to students wherever learning occurs. For the diagnostic specifically, you do have the ability to adjust what times and days the assessment is made available.
By default, Skill Mastery is designed to meet students where they are and provide skills in tune with specific learner needs. Those modules for each skill also include all of the elements of a full lesson cycle—instruction, practice, and assessment—such that you can feel confident that students continue to receive appropriate instructional approaches that facilitate mastery learning whether they are in the classroom or learning virtually.
Additionally, each step of the way, educators are provided with real-time notifications regarding student progress such that understanding how students are spending their time, when they’re struggling and need attention, or when they succeed and deserve celebration are all front and center. Combined, these elements support successful asynchronous learning for all students.
When synchronous virtual instruction is possible, Skill Mastery lessons, videos, and worksheets can all be shared for collective learning. Additionally, the grouping tool can be used behind the scenes to help determine where targeted instruction is needed, and then help recommend how you might set up those virtual learning groups to facilitate that shared learning experience.
Startup, Training, and Consulting
Once your district completes the startup process and your students are rostered, you can begin using Skill Mastery to support your educators and students no matter what it might look like, brick and mortar, virtually, or a blended environment. REAP Education will partner with your district to build a program to best identify student needs due to the varying educational settings each student experiences.
startup for teachers is included in the contract with Skill Mastery. After a district signs an agreement with REAP Education for Skill Mastery, the intuitive training process for teachers will begin at no cost to The professional learning will include live and OnDemand webinars.
Account Management
Each school partner is assigned a Data Coach who will coordinate timely data reports. Schools will identify who will be given access to student data and to ensure each teacher is able to provide their scholar with the support they need every step of the way. REAP Data Coaches will provide documentation to support reporting for all learning Tiers.
Yes, if they are using different internet browsers.
Yes. You can send messages to students, and they can message their teacher back from directly within Skill Mastery.
Integrations & Technical Requirements
Yes, single sign-on is currently available through Clever and ClassLink.
Currently, Skill Mastery does not offer LMS integrations.
Refer to the Skill Mastery system and technical requirements documentation: https://www.REAP Education.com/resources/brochures/REAP Education-system-requirements
No, an API is not currently available for Skill Mastery due to the dynamic and adaptive nature of the data provided. At REAP Education, we continue to evaluate the opportunities to provide API functionality in strategic ways and will continually evolve our strategy to meet customer needs.
No. Skill Mastery is accessible from our web-based platform and can be accessed using one of our single sign-on integrations or by visiting the following url: www.login.REAP Education.com.
Research
Yes. REAP Education partnered with third-party research organization, Century Analytics, to conduct rigorous evaluations of each Skill Mastery subject and its use with students to impact student achievement. Results confirmed that use of Skill Mastery lessons has a positive, statistically significant effect on growth.
Access each study here: Reading, Language Arts, Math
ESSA Level of Research: Moderate Evidence (Quasi-Experimental)
What Works Clearing House Standard: Meets WWC Group Design Standards with Reservations
Skills Assessed by the Adaptive Diagnostic Assessment
Skill Mastery’s assessments in reading and language arts ensure students are placed precisely at their instructional level using sophisticated developmental growth scales that map individual score values to a developmental progression of K-12 skills. Advanced psychometric models explicitly render a child’s ability level on the exact same scale as our developmental skills progression. Consequently, a learner’s standard score is not just a number, it points to a location in the hierarchical skills progression, making it possible to know which lessons a given learner is prepared to undertake.
The alignment of ability scores with skill difficulty allows teachers to envision growth not just as an arbitrary score gain, but as a reliable and valid indicator of the successful acquisition of skills over each domain and grade span. The tables below provide an alphabetized list of skills that are assessed for each subject, domain, and grade span.
Reading Skills
| Grades K–4 | Reading Foundations | ||
| Beginning Sounds | Phonics | Spelling | |
| Blending Sounds | Reading Fluently | Syllable Patterns | |
| Emergent Texts | Reading Unfamiliar Words | Syllables | |
| Ending Sounds | Rhyming Words | Upper & Lowercase Letters | |
| Letters & Sounds | Root Words & Affixes | Words & Spaces | |
| Grades K–12 | Reading Literature | ||
| Allusions in | Drawing Inferences | Point of View | |
| Literature American | Employing Dialogue | Producing Suspense & | |
| Literature | Figurative Language | Humor Range of Literary | |
| Analyzing Author’s Choice | Figurative Meanings | Texts Reading Fluently | |
| Analyzing Figures of Speech in | Figurative Meanings in | Recounting Stories | |
| Fiction | Fiction Identifying the | Relation of Story | |
| Analyzing Plot Effects | Speaker Identifying Theme | Elements Retelling | |
| Analyzing Theme | Illustrations | Stories | |
| Appealing to the | Images & | Rhythm & Meaning | |
| Senses Asking and | Illustrations Impact & | Satire & Irony in Fiction | |
| Answering | Tone Inferences | Sequence of Events | |
| Questions | Inferences in Fiction | Setting | |
| Categories of | Inferences in | Sound & Structure | |
| Writing | Literature Lessons & | Structures of Texts | |
| Central Message and | Morals | Summarizing | |
| Lessons Character Analysis | Literal & Intended | Literature | |
| Character | Meaning Literary | Summarizing Texts | |
| Development | Interpretations Literary | Summary | |
| Characters | Point of View Literary Text | Textual Evidence | |
| Compare & Contrast | Structure Major Events | Textual Evidence in Fiction | |
| Compare & Contrast | Major Events & | Textual Evidence: | |
| Artistic | Challenges Meaning & | Supporting | |
| Mediums | Tone | Analysis in | |
| Compare & Contrast | Meaning & Tone in | Literature Theme | |
| Literary Elements | Literature Narrator’s Point of | Types of Texts | |
| Comparing American | View Parts of a Book | Visual | |
| Literary Works | Plot | Elements | |
| Comparing Points of | Plot & Conflict | Visual Presentation of Text | |
| View Connotation & | Poems, Drama & Prose | ||
| Denotation Cultural | |||
| Literature Distinguishing | |||
| Figurative | |||
| Language | |||
| Grades K–12 | Reading Informational Text | ||
| Academic Language | Comparing Presentation | Main Idea & Supporting | |
| Analyzing Central | of Events | Details Main Purpose | |
| Ideas | Conflicting Information | Main Topic, Focus & Ideas | |
| Analyzing Complex Ideas in Text | Connotations in | Maps, Charts & | |
| Analyzing Documents | Information Describing | Photographs Meaning & | |
| Analyzing Figures of Speech in | Connections Diagrams, | Tone | |
| Nonfiction | Charts & Graphs Evaluating | Meaning & Tone in | |
| Analyzing Sequence of | Arguments Evaluating | Informational Texts | |
| Events Analyzing Text | Different Media Events, | Parts of an Informational | |
| Structure Analyzing Theme in | Ideas & Concepts Events, | Book Point of View in Multiple | |
| U.S. | Ideas & Procedures | Accounts | |
| Documents | Fallacies | Purpose of Rhetoric in Text | |
| Analyzing U.S. | Figurative Language | Range of Informational Texts | |
| Documents Analyzing | in Information | Rhetoric | |
| Words of Public | Figurative Meaning in | Summarizing | |
| Advocacy | Nonfiction First & Secondhand | Information Supporting | |
| Applying Sources of Information | Accounts Graphic Features | Details Technical | |
| Asking About Informational | Inferences from | Meanings | |
| Texts | Information Inferences in | Text Features | |
| Asking Informational | Nonfiction Information | Text Structure | |
| Questions Author’s Argument | from Sources | Textual Evidence in | |
| Author’s Point of | Informational Evidence | Nonfiction Textual Evidence: | |
| View Cause & Effect | Integrating Information | Supporting | |
| Central Ideas | Logical Connections | Analysis Nonfiction | |
| Compare & Contrast Text | Main Idea | Using Evidence to | |
| Structure | Support | ||
| Comparing Information | Claims | ||
Language Arts Skills
| Grades K–12 | Language | ||
| Abnormal Adverbs | Nouns | Semicolons & | |
| Active & Passive Voice | Parallel Structure | Conjunctive Adverbs | |
| Adjectives | Phrases & | Simple, Compound & | |
| Adverbs | Clauses Plurals | Complex Sentences | |
| Apostrophes | Possessives | Spelling | |
| Capitalization | Prepositional | Subject-Verb | |
| Colons & Quotations | Phrases Prepositions | Agreement Types of | |
| Complete | Print Letters | Adjectives Types of | |
| Sentences | Progressive Tenses | Clauses | |
| Conjunctions | Pronouns | Types of Phrases | |
| Determiners | Punctuation | Understanding | |
| Dialects | Question Words | Grammar | |
| Dictionaries & | Reference | Conventions | |
| Glossaries End | Materials | Upper- and Lowercase | |
| Punctuation Fragments | Relative Pronouns & | Letters Using Verbs in Moods | |
| & Run-Ons | Relative Adverbs | Varied Sentence | |
| Frequently Confused Words | Resolving Complex | Structure Verb Tense | |
| Hyphenation Conventions | Grammar Issues | Verbals | |
| Misplaced & Dangling | Semicolons & Colons | Verbs | |
| Modifiers Modal Auxiliaries | Verbs & Mood | ||
| Grades K–12 | Speaking & Listening |
| Giving a | |
| Presentation Having | |
| a Discussion | |
| Listening Actively |
| Grades K–12 | Writing | ||
| Analyzing Transitional | Formatting & Graphics | Revising | |
| Devices Applying Literary | Gathering Information | Sensory Details | |
| Techniques Bibliographic | Gathering Relevant | Sentence Structures | |
| Information Building Complex | Information In-Text Citations | Sequencing Claims | |
| Concepts Citation Formats | Introducing & Closing | Supplying Evidence | |
| Citations | Topics Linking Words & | Supporting & | |
| Citing Information | Phrases Narrating Events | Developing | |
| Creating a | Narrative Techniques | Topics | |
| Bibliography | Organizing Ideas | Supporting Claims | |
| Creating Research Questions | Paraphrasing & Taking | & Counterclaims | |
| Creating Tone | Notes Planning | Supporting Facts & Details | |
| Credible Sources | Precise Language & | Syntax | |
| Developing Claims | Sensory Details | Synthesizing | |
| & | Providing Reasons & Facts | Sources Taking | |
| Counterclaims | Quoting & Paraphrasing | Notes | |
| Developing | Data Recalling Information | Task, Purpose & Audience | |
| Evidence Editing | Research Questions | Text Formatting | |
| Evaluating | Transition Words & Phrases | ||
| Claims Focus on | Transitions | ||
| a Topic | |||
Adaptive Diagnostic Capabilities
No! Through our parent company, Skill Mastery offers a NWEA MAP Growth integration, such that you can use your scores from that assessment to auto-generate learning paths in Skill Mastery—no additional testing required. Contact us for details for this integration option. Schools desiring to integrate will not qualify for REAP Education Learning Solution.
No! Skill Mastery offers a Renaissance Star integration, such that you can use your scores from that assessment to auto-generate learning paths in Skill Mastery—no additional testing required. Contact us for details for this integration option. Schools desiring to integrate will not qualify for REAP Education Learning Solution.
For Kindergarten and 1st grade students, the diagnostic takes approximately 15-25 minutes to complete and is about 30 questions in length.
For 2nd grade through 12th grade students, the diagnostic takes approximately 30-60 minutes to complete and is about 45-50 questions in length.
Yes. The Skill Mastery diagnostic is computer adaptive. That means that with each question that a student answers, the test is learning more about them—what they know and what they don’t know. If students answer questions correctly, they will receive more difficult questions. If students answer questions incorrectly, they will receive easier questions. This process continues until the test zeroes in on a student’s proximal zone of development and can therefore prescribe an appropriate learning path in tune with their learning needs. Watch this short video to learn more about the difference between an adaptive vs. a fixed-form assessment approach.
Skill Mastery allows educators to set up to four testing windows within a given Academic Year. Account administrators can set the date ranges for each assessment window and determine the precise days and times that it is available for the student to complete. Our recommendation is that testing events occur approximately 12 weeks apart from one another to calculate valid growth measures for each student.
After students complete every batch of four skills, a dynamically built formative assessment called a Progress Check is automatically administered to gauge how students are retaining that information and if they need remediation or are ready to accelerate. Details from these 20- question Progress Checks are a terrific way to determine skill mastery between larger interim assessments used 2-4 times a year.
If a testing window is open, students can complete their diagnostic within the window. In the case that a testing window is closed or you do not wish to initially assess the student (but would prefer to create a learning path for them right away), we have the ability to auto-generate an on-grade level learning path for the student.
Our State & Federal Programs team is constantly identifying and reviewing opportunities to submit REAP Education programs for appropriate approval on state and national lists. Details for this specific RSA list are currently with our teams for review.
No. The Skill Mastery diagnostic is a computer-adaptive assessment, and therefore adjusts in real time as students answer questions correctly and incorrectly. For this reason, it is only available through the digital platform.
Learning Paths and Curriculum
All K-12 content is aligned to Oklahoma Academic Standards. Specific skills covered are also noted here: Reading Progression and Math Progression.
Yes. Following the completion of the diagnostic or import of assessment scores from one of our integration partners, educators can override placement by choosing to edit the learning path.
Edits can be made by domain.
The content progression in the learning path is fixed and students only receive lessons for the skills that they need to work on. The Assignments feature can be used to push out additional content as desired, allowing you the flexibility to adjust how and when students interact with
different curriculum at different times of the year.
Skill Mastery Quizzes require earning an 80% or above to demonstrate mastery. Progress Checks similarly require earning an 80% or above for a student to earn a Mastery Trophy and therefore be allowed to progress to a new skill. These formative assessments may not be edited.
No. Content in Skill Mastery is intentionally delivered in bite-sized pieces such that students are not overwhelmed. After each set of four skills, students are formatively assessed to ensure mastery as well as adapt the learning path going forward.
No. Students are made aware of the objective for each lesson and will receive material that is age- appropriate in content style, but the actual grade level will not be labeled for the student to directly view.
Depending on diagnostic placement, students may receive skills that are below grade level, on, or above grade level. It is paramount that no matter where their skill gaps lie that they receive content that has an appropriate look and feel. For that reason, we provide two content styles for many of our learning paths skills—one that is more animated and appropriate for K-5 students and another that uses a more mature learning approach to suit the needs of 6-12
Progress on the assessment and learning path content is saved automatically. Even if students do not properly exit the content, but instead close their browser or abruptly turn off their device, progress is still saved.
Students are able to access correct and incorrect answers in the practice modules within each lesson. Correct and incorrect answers to Mastery Quizzes and Progress Checks are only available to the teacher.
No. Our rich volume of content is expertly designed to meet high-quality standards and skills alignments. We offer assignable lessons and videos as well as printable worksheets and lesson ideas to enhance your instruction in the ‘Content Search’ area.
No. We do not have this feature at this time.
We have reading materials built into the program, in the tutorials, practice items, and assessment items. Reading materials progress in reading level and in complexity across the grade levels.
No, not at this time. We offer augmented reality in our Courseware program and are constantly evolving our best-in-class curriculum to meet industry needs.
Skills Assessed by the Adaptive Diagnostic Assessment
Skill Mastery’s assessment in math ensures students are placed precisely at their instructional level using sophisticated developmental growth scales that map individual score values to a developmental progression of K-12 skills. Advanced psychometric models explicitly render a child’s ability level on the exact same scale as our developmental skills progression. Consequently, a learner’s standard score is not just a number, it points to a location in the hierarchical skills progression, making it possible to know which lessons a given learner is prepared to undertake.
The alignment of ability scores with skill difficulty allows teachers to envision growth not just as an arbitrary score gain, but as a reliable and valid indicator of the successful acquisition of skills over each domain and grade span. The tables below provide an alphabetized list of skills that are assessed for each domain and grade span.
Math Skills
| Kindergarten | Counting & Cardinality |
| Comparing | |
| Numbers Counting | |
| Number Names |
| Grades 3–7 | Fractions & Ratios | ||
| Adding & Subtracting Fractions | Equivalent | Proportional | |
| Compare Decimals | Fractions Fractions | Relationships Ratios & | |
| Compare Fractions | Multiplying | Proportions Ratios & Ratio | |
| Convert Fractions to | Fractions Percents | Language Unit Rates | |
| Decimals Dividing Fractions | Problem Solving with Fractions | Units of Measurement | |
| Grades K–8 | Algebra & Expressions | ||
| Addition & Subtraction Facts | Multiplicative | Solve Equations & Inequalities | |
| Equivalent Expressions | Comparisons Multi-Step | Solving Linear Equations | |
| Estimate Solutions | Real-World | Square & Cube Roots | |
| Evaluate Expressions | Problems | Symbolize & Solve Equations | |
| Exponential Expressions | Number | Symbolize & Solve | |
| Factors & Multiples | Composition | Inequalities Symbolize | |
| Foundations of | Number Patterns | Addition & | |
| Multiplication Linear | Number Sentences | Subtraction | |
| Expressions | Numerical | Symbolize Problem | |
| Model Multiplication & | Expressions Patterns | Situations Systems of | |
| Division Multiplication & | Proportional | Equations | |
| Division Facts Multiplication & | Relationships | Two-Step Real-World | |
| Division | Quantitative | Problems Write Expressions | |
| Properties | Relationships Real-World | ||
| Problems Scientific | |||
| Notation | |||
| High School | Binomial Theorem | Linear Inequalities in Two | Solve Linear Equations |
| Create Equations & | Variables | Solve Linear Equations | |
| Inequalities Create Linear & | Operations on | & | |
| Exponential | Polynomial | Inequalities | |
| Equations & Inequalities | Expressions | Solve Linear Inequalities | |
| Create Quadratic Equations | Polynomial Division | Solve Quadratic Equations | |
| & | Polynomial | Solve Radical Equations | |
| Inequalities | Expressions Quadratic | Solve Rational Expressions | |
| Create Systems of | Expressions Rational | Symbolize with | |
| Equations and | Expressions Rewrite | Expressions Symbolize | |
| Inequalities | Equations Rewrite | with Linear & | |
| Equivalent | Linear Variable | Exponential | |
| Quadratic | Equations | Expressions Systems of | |
| Expressions | Simplify Rational Expressions | Equations | |
| Factor & Solve | Solve Equations & | ||
| Polynomial Equations | Inequalities Solve | ||
| Factoring | Exponential Equations | ||
| Polynomial | |||
| Expressions | |||
| Grades K–8 | Geometry | ||
| Angles & Lines | Fractional Parts | Symmetry | |
| Area | Object Transformations | Triangles | |
| Area by Counting | Object Transformations | Two- and Three- | |
| Circles | Segments Pythagorean | Dimensional Figures | |
| Classify Two- | Theorem | Two- and Three- | |
| Dimensional Figures | Scale Drawings | Dimensional Shapes | |
| Combining Shapes | Shape | Volume | |
| Coordinate | Partitions | ||
| Geometry | Shapes | ||
| Coordinate System | Similarity & | ||
| Congruence Surface | |||
| Area & Volume | |||
| High School | Area of a Triangle | Lines & Angles Theorems | Triangle Theorems |
| Circles with | Parabola Equations | Two- and Three- | |
| Coordinates | Parallelogram Theorems | Two- and Three- | |
| Circles without | Right Triangle | Undefined | |
| Coordinates Congruence | Trigonometry Similarity & | Notions Volume | |
| Coordinate Geometry | Congruence of | ||
| Geometric | Triangles | ||
| Constructions | Similarity & | ||
| Law of Sines & Law of Cosines | Similarity & | ||
| Lines: Parallel, Perpendicular & | Transformations | ||
| Ratios | Transformations in the | ||
| Plane | |||
| Grades K–8 | Numbers & Operations | ||
| Add & Subtract Decimals | Coordinate Planes | Powers of Ten | |
| Addition & Subtraction | Counting | Properties of Addition | |
| Addition & Subtraction | Numbers Division | & | |
| Properties | Division of Fractions | Subtraction | |
| Addition & | Division of Whole | Properties of Multiplication | |
| Subtraction | Numbers Expanded | & Division | |
| Strategies | Notation | Rational Approximations | |
| Addition & Subtraction | Model Division of | Reading & Writing | |
| Within 1,000 | Whole Numbers | Numbers Real Numbers | |
| Absolute Value | Multiplication | Real-World Problems | |
| Arithmetic with | Multiply by Multiples of 10 | Representations of | |
| Decimals | Multiply Whole Numbers | Decimals Rounding | |
| Compare & Order Numbers | Multiply & Divide Decimals | Decimals Rounding | |
| Compare Whole Numbers | Negative & Positive | Numbers | |
| Comparing Decimals | Numbers Number Lines | Single-Step Real- | |
| Compose & Decompose | Number | World Problems | |
| Numbers | Theory Place | ||
| Compute with Rational Numbers | Value | ||
| High School | Complex Numbers | ||
| Interpret Graphs | |||
| Operations with Rational & | |||
| Irrational Numbers | |||
| Properties of | |||
| Arithmetic Quantities & | |||
| Units Rational | |||
| Exponents | |||
| Grades K–8 | Measurement, Data & Statistics | ||
| Angle | Length Problems | Sampling | |
| Measurement Area | Measuring Length | Analysis Scatter | |
| Best-Fit Linear | Measuring | Plots Statistical | |
| Models Capacity & | Objects Money | Analysis Time | |
| Mass | Perimeter | Time Elapsed | |
| Central Tendency & | Probability | Two-Way Tables | |
| Variability Classifying Objects | Representing & | Units of | |
| Graphing & Interpreting | Interpreting Data | Measurement | |
| Data Graphs | Represent & Interpret Data | Volume | |
| Length | |||
| High School | Comparing Data | ||
| Independence & | |||
| Conditional | |||
| Probability | |||
| Normal | |||
| Distribution | |||
| Probability & Decision | |||
| Making Rules of Probability in | |||
| Compound Events | |||
| Sampling & | |||
| Experiments | |||
| Scatterplots | |||
| Two-Way Frequency Tables | |||
| Grade 8 and High School | Functions | ||
| Compare Properties | Graphing Linear Functions | Rate of Change | |
| of Functions | Graphing Quadratic Functions | Selecting Function Type | |
| Compare Properties of Linear | Graphs of Polynomial | from Context | |
| & Exponential Functions | Functions Graphs of | Sequences | |
| Create Systems of Equations | Trigonometric | Solve Equations by | |
| & Inequalities | Functions | Graphing Solve Equations | |
| Domain of a Function | Interpret Expressions | Using | |
| Evaluate Functions | Interpret Functions in Context | Successive Approximations | |
| Function | Interpret Quadratic Functions | Solve Equations Using Tables | |
| Transformations | Inverse Functions | Solve Exponential Models | |
| Functions | Linear & Exponential | with | |
| Geometric Series | Function Transformations | Logarithms | |
| Graphing Absolute Value, | Linear & Exponential | Unit Circle | |
| Step & Piecewise Defined | Models Linear | Writing | |
| Functions | Relationships | Functions | |
| Graphing Exponential | Linear vs. Nonlinear | Writing Quadratic Functions | |
| Functions Graphing Functions | Properties of | Zeros of Polynomials | |
| Functions | |||
| Pythagorean Identity | |||
Reporting and Progress Monitoring
For students that complete the Skill Mastery diagnostic, each Student Summary Report includes details on the assessment experience, including total time, total sessions, and time per item, allowing educators to dig into the validity of the testing experience. The Learning Path Progress Report is the primary location for accessing how students spend their time in the learning path. This includes details such as time on task, total time, and number of skills assessed and mastered.
Skill Mastery supports the attainment of IEP goals related to academic progress by tracking progress over time and conducting regular curriculum-based measures through the
program’s Progress Check feature. Skill Mastery supports struggling learners by providing Building Block content based on failure to master concepts. After mastering Building Block content, learners are provided with alternate instruction for the original skill so that they have the opportunity to experience another approach to instructing the skill. Skill Mastery is compliant with most WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA accessibility features, as outlined in the Skill Mastery VPAT.
When students master content in Skill Mastery they earn trophies. These trophies can be reviewed by the student in the Rewards area. Additionally, REAP Data Coach can enable access to student summary reports. These reports include diagnostic data, growth from diagnostic to diagnostic, and specific learning path details for all skills.
All of the following information is provided in reports and can be used as the basis for assigning grades to students. Progress Checks are conducted after every set of up to 4 skills and can be used as quiz-level grades. The diagnostic assessment is designed to be re-administered at the end of each semester and can be used as a test or semester grade. Finally, minutes in the system provide an overview of effort and can be used as the basis for an optional participation grade.
Accessibility, Modifications, and Accommodations
Skill Mastery offers flexible settings to account for different learner needs. If students require modifications or accommodations based on IEPs (Individualized Education Programs) or Section 504 plans, details around what is available can be found in this accommodations and modifications document.
All text across all grade-levels can be read aloud in English. In grade levels 6-12 skills in the program, learners have the ability to use a translator in a variety of languages. This provides the students with the heaviest text load the ability to access text in their native language.
Yes, the Skill Mastery program is proven effective with English language learners. Skill Mastery has also been approved through the WIDA PRIME V2 Correlation process following a rigorous, independent review. Find additional details about how the program supports the unique needs of this student population here.
Accommodations and Modifications
Skill Mastery offers carefully designed features for both diagnostic testing and learning paths to support students of diverse abilities. If students require modifications or accommodations based on IEPs (Individualized Education Programs) or Section 504 plans, Exact Path offers an array of flexible options to address distinct student needs.
Additional information about the specific features outlined below may be found in the Exact Path Help Center or on the Learn and Support page of our Parent Company Edmentum.
Presentation Accommodations
For students in need of click-to-speak accommodations, enabling audio controls for the assessment allows them to select any text and have it read to them.
Progress Checks adapt the learning path based on what students are ready to work on next. For those in need of remediation, that could include receiving a Building Block representing a prerequisite skill.
Skill Mastery automatically adapts the presentation style of lessons to a more mature style for students in grades 6–12. Changing content style for older learners removes barriers of demotivation.
Skill Mastery’s Learning Management System is compatible with Job Access with Speech (JAWS) for blind/low-vision students. Most lessons are accessible using JAWS.
Skill Mastery’s Learning Management System is compatible with Job Access with Speech (JAWS) for blind/low-vision students. Most lessons are accessible using JAWS.
Response Accommodations
Learning path instruction, practice, and quizzes include access to a digital dictionary from Merriam-Webster.
Point-of-use access to an appropriate basic, graphing, or scientific calculator is available for key content Quizzes that are most appropriate for calculator use.
Setting Accommodations
As a Web-based program, students can use Skill Mastery from anywhere they have a device and an Internet connection.
Timing Accommodations
There are no built-in time limits to complete work in Skill Mastery, as the program is entirely self-paced. Students can take as much time as they need to complete their work, process information, and review directions.
Students can save a session and exit at any point in Skill Mastery, allowing them to pause for frequent breaks or complete work over multiple days or chunks of time.
Unless otherwise disabled by administrators, Skill Mastery is accessible 24 hours a day so that students can access the program at whatever time of day works best for them.
Skill Mastery Easy School Login feature allows students to log in using a simple password that does not require use of a keyboard.
Assignment Modifications
Skill Mastery creates individualized learning paths based on a student’s specific learning needs, and teachers can take advantage of the ‘Assess and Teach’ option to add remediation, acceleration, or targeted reinforcement as needed.
Students answer different test questions than peers
Skill Mastery utilizes computer-adaptive assessments that adjust in real time to display appropriate questions that work to precisely determine a student’s zone of proximal development. Additional formative assessments known as Progress Checks are also built dynamically to only cover skills specifically addressed in each student’s unique learning path.
Curriculum Modifications
The initial adaptive assessment is not fixed; rather, it works to diagnose specific student needs across REAP Education’s entire K–12 learning progression. In this way, the score simplify identifies where students are ready to begin learning. Additional assessments included in the learning path test students only on content they are ready to learn based on their strengths
and needs, regardless of grade level.
Students’ learning paths will adapt based on how they perform on each set of skills. If formative assessments determine that remediation is needed, students may receive a Building Block that represents a prerequisite
skill.
Schools can choose to forgo having students take a diagnostic test and opt to simply have their students on an on-grade-level learning path instead. Students only receive content in their learning path that is representative of what they are ready to learn. If adjustments are necessary, our team have the ability to edit students’ learning paths as needed, thereby effectively omitting items.
Skill Mastery and Other REAP Education Programs
Course Mastery and Skill Mastery together ensures that you are providing a two-pronged learning approach that both encourages proficiency and promotes growth, respectively.
Course Mastery primary objective is to ensure students meet standards mastery of on-grade standards in alignment with the scope and sequence you are tasked to teach as a classroom teacher.
The program offers 100’s of courses aligned to your state standards that can be leveraged for credit recovery, …..
Skill Mastery’s primary objective is to ensure students close specific learning gaps and achieve academic growth, regardless of the grade level they are in. The program individualizes the learning experience for every student to provide remediation or acceleration as students need it and tracks growth via valid measures for each diagnostic assessment administration.
Additional resources to learn more about how the two programs can be used in tandem are found here:
- Boost Growth + Proficiency Recorded Webinar
- Secrets to a Successful Implementation from Two Georgia Schools
- Providing Individualized Learning Opportunities: An Arizona Customer Spotlight
Contact Information
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