How do Knowledge Factor and Peak Mastery work?

A young person's confidence in their knowledge is just as important as their knowledge. If you can measure every student's knowledge and confidence, you have a lot more insight into how to help each of them. Think about it... teens are so often misinformed, but it's their steadfast confidence in their misinformation, their certainty that they're right, that presents barriers to learning. Measures of both confidence and knowledge create a four-part profile of each student's mastery of a subject area:

• What they know they don't know,
• What they think they know, but don't,
• What they know, and don't think they do,
• What they know and know they do.

Here are the key steps....

ONE: You set a "mastery goal" for each student, for each subject area

TWO: Students take a unique, patented assessment where they choose, for each question:

• "I am sure" and a single answer, or...
• "I am partially sure" and a pair of possible answers, or...
• "I don't know" and no answer

THREE: For each student, PM compiles the four part profile and a Targeted Learning Plan:

FOUR: Students cycle through subsequent assessments and Learning Plans to achieve the target master goal:

FIVE: The graph belows shows actual results for a student, and his progressive increase in mastery as he cycled through learning, assessment, and remediation four times. Once students reach their mastery goal, you can collect extensive assessment data per student, or for an entire group, and correlate that data with test scores, grades, attendance, and other measurements.