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REPORTS. The Web
Management provides instructors and administrators with a wide range
of detailed reports on student/client activity in the Instructional
Systems Inc. curriculum courses. The reports can be classified into
groups in two different ways.
Reports by function.
One way to look at the reports is by report function. There are three
basic report functions, SUMMARY, EXCEPTION, and ACTIVITY.
- Summary reports
provide totals and averages for the given report type. For
example, a summary report might show total time spent, or total
lessons taken in a particular course or date period. Summary
reports are used by administrators to show that students
enrolled in the curriculum are meeting program goals, such as
time on task, or progress in the curriculum courses.
- Exception reports
allow for totals and averages to be produced with additional
conditions that produce information about students who do or do
not meet the given conditions. For example, an exception report
might list all students who have at least 20 hours time in the
curriculum, or those lessons with scores above 80%, or those
students who have not used the curriculum in a given date
period.
- Activity reports
show the results of the individual sessions that a student
takes. Activity reports show these sessions by course, date, and
lesson. Activity reports are generally used by administrators to
permanently record student activity in the curriculum. Activity
reports provide the accountability that students have used the
curriculum in the software, by individual session, and can be
used to show the students use of the curriculum over time.
Reports by type.
Another way to look at the reports in by report type. There are 8
basic report types, PERFORMANCE, SESSION, LESSON, MODULE, COURSE,
DAILY, WEEKLY, and MONTHLY.
- Performance
reports show aggregate and statistical information about
particular student data items recorded by the courseware, such
as the number of exercises attempted, the number of exercises
correct, and the length of each session.
- Session reports
show information about individual student sessions, showing the
date of the session, the time of the session, the number of
exercises correct and attempted, the course and lesson taken
during that session, and a lesson sequence number to insure
integrity of the data.
- Lesson reports
show information about individual lessons in particular courses.
There are many lessons in each of the courses, and information
about student work in particular or selected groups of lessons
can be obtained. Lesson reports are generally used by
instructors to determine if students have mastered particular
items in the curriculum course. For example, the lesson
exception report might be used to find lessons that are giving
students trouble, as reflected by low scores in the lessons.
- Module reports
show information about individual modules in particular courses.
Each course is divided into a number of modules on a broad skill
area, and information about student work in particular or
selected groups of modules can be obtained. Module reports are
generally used by instructors to determine if students have
mastered particular parts of the curriculum course.
- Course reports
show information about student usage of particular courses. The
ISI curriculum software has over 15 different courses, and
information about student work in particular or selected groups
of courses can be obtained.
- Daily, Weekly, and
Monthly reports show information about student usage of the
curriculum software during given time intervals. These reports
are generally used to insure that students are using the
curriculum properly over the given date ranges. For example, the
Weekly report can be used to show how many hours that students
have put into the curriculum during given weeks of the year.
With these two
classifications, there are currently 15 reports available:
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY,
PERFORMANCE ACTIVITY, SESSION ACTIVITY, LESSON EXCEPTION, LESSON
SUMMARY, LESSON ACTIVITY, MODULE SUMMARY, MODULE ACTIVITY, COURSE
SUMMARY, COURSE ACTIVITY, DAILY SUMMARY, DAILY ACTIVITY, WEEKLY
SUMMARY, MONTHLY SUMMARY, and MONTHLY ACTIVITY.
All reports have
a number of common characteristics for ease of use:
- All reports allow
for sorting of the data by student ID number, student secondary
ID number (which may be a case number or social security
number), and by student last name.
- All reports allow
for data to be selected only from a given set of courses with an
easy to use check-box approach to course selection.
- All reports allow
for the omission of insignificant sessions from the reporting,
such as sessions where the student does not take any exercises,
or does not spend any time.
- All reports are
password protected to prevent access by unauthorized personnel.
- All reports allow
for data to be selected only from a given date range.
- All reports may be
enabled or disabled for particular projects.
Several of the reports
have special characteristics that simplify project management:
- Optional e-mail of
results of the report to a given e-mail account.
- Production of
comma separated data in a text file that can be imported into
third-party databases and spreadsheets for further analysis.
- Color highlighting
to indicate relevant features of the data.
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