The MASTER framework · Patent pending
Coming soonHow TestMySkills will decide what each student needs next.
Six steps will turn every answer a student gives into a next step for that student, and a plan their teacher approves. Its foundations work today: mastery per topic, spaced review and adaptive practice.
Map competency
Every test and practice attempt updates each student’s mastery, topic by topic.
Every answer counts as evidence. Mastery is tracked per topic for each student, rather than as one overall score.
Analyze gaps
Topic mastery rolls up to chapters, so gaps show at the level you teach.
Mastery rolls up through chapters, weighted by topic. A teacher sees “weak in electromagnetism” and can drill down to “Faraday’s law”.
Strategize
Students are grouped by where they stand, and each group gets interventions for the teacher to approve.
The teacher copilot groups the class (slipping, at risk, average, close to topper, toppers) and proposes interventions for each group. The teacher approves, changes or denies each one. Nothing reaches a student without that decision.
Train adaptively
Practice goes to each student’s weakest topics.
Practice sets are built per student. Most questions come from their weakest topics in the chapter being taught.
Evaluate mastery
Measured continuously, not only at exam time.
Mastery updates after every attempt, so progress shows between exams, not just after them.
Reinforce
Mastery fades without practice, so topics due for review come back into practice.
Mastery decays when a topic isn’t practised. Up to half of each practice set brings back topics that are due for review.
One student’s mastery
Example- Faraday’s lawWeakest topic45%+7
- Coulomb’s lawDue for review64%
- Lenz’s law55%
- Magnetic flux64%
- Induced EMF46%
Grouped by where they stand
- Slipping
- At risk
- Average
- Close to topper
- Toppers
Practice set
6 of 10 from their weakest topics
Coulomb’s law · Back into practice
Every test and practice attempt updates each student’s mastery, topic by topic.
Topic mastery rolls up to chapters, so gaps show at the level you teach.
Students are grouped by where they stand, and each group gets interventions for the teacher to approve.
Practice goes to each student’s weakest topics.
Measured continuously, not only at exam time.
Mastery fades without practice, so topics due for review come back into practice.
The idea behind it
Rooted in cognitive tutoring
Cognitive tutoring is a tradition in learning science: build a model of what each student knows, skill by skill, and choose their next step from that model instead of from the class average.
MASTER applies that idea at the scale of a real class. The model is each student’s topic-by-topic mastery, built from every test and practice attempt. The next step is either chosen for the student, as adaptive practice, which works today, or proposed to their teacher as interventions, and the teacher decides: that part is the teacher copilot.
The MASTER framework is patent pending.
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