We’ve had a few reports from teachers concerning some students receiving My Math Academy or My Reading Academy activities that seem much higher than their expected level.
This article is intended to help clarify what you’re seeing (and why) with your students who are may receive activities that appear to be above their expected level.
First, we understand teachers' concerns, especially when a student’s placement results and recent activity do not reflect the performance and higher-level skills that these activities may require.
However, we want to reassure you that this can happen temporarily for a couple of reasons within our adaptive learning mastery system, and that we've already implemented system updates to further refine activity level targeting in our programs.
Expected Program Adaptivity
In some cases, our system may present activities from a higher band when it detects that a student is moving quickly through all activities within a particular topic or domain. This allows the program to check whether they are ready for more challenging material, and it will automatically adjust them back down if they are not. If a student struggles with or fails these higher-level activities, the system also uses that information to return them to a more appropriate range.
Recent Update to Address the Issue
We have released an update designed to further refine and narrow the types and levels of activities students receive. As this update takes effect, it may take a few activities for the system to fully recalibrate and bring students back into the correct range. What you’re seeing is likely part of this normal adjustment period.
At this time, a placement reset isn’t needed. The system should naturally guide students back to the correct level as they continue working through their next few activities. I’m happy to continue monitoring their accounts to ensure everything aligns as expected.
Additional Improvements to Come
Additional improvements intended to further address these edge cases will be released for the next school year.