Administrator's Plus Report Cards Manual - Rediker Software, Inc.

Chapter D
Skills and Concepts
Introduction
Introduction
Initial Setup
Administrator’s Plus’s Skills-based Report Card module allows you to assess students
on curriculum Skills and Concepts. Skills (also referred to as Standards) are defined as
learning objectives needed to meet the curriculum requirements for a particular course.
For example, skills for Reading 100 could include “Progressing toward reading 25
grade appropriate books”, and “Shows evidence of understanding his/her reading in
writing/discussion”. Students can be assessed on each skill using letter or number
grades, or any symbol defined in your Administrator’s Plus grade table (located inside
the Customize RC program). Concepts are defined as the specific topics covered in a
course section. Students are not assessed on concepts. However, concepts can be printed
on report cards to show parents the topics covered during each marking period of a
course. Concepts are associated with course sections because the concepts for a
particular master course may vary from teacher-to-teacher. For example, the course
Reading could be linked to the concepts: “Re-telling” for 1st quarter, and “Connecting
text to prior knowledge” for 2nd quarter.
In Administrator’s Plus, your school can create customized lists of skills and concepts.
These skills and concepts will be linked to the appropriate master courses, and sections
respectively. Grades for course skills can be entered manually using the Enter Grades
or View/Change/Add/Drop programs. The Skills-based Report Card module also
interfaces with GradeQuick’s Skills feature, so skills grades can be imported at the same
time as conventional grades.
New “box codes” in the Report Card Report Writer make it easy to produce
attractive Skills-based report cards showing skills grades and course concepts. As with
all reports, you can customize your skills-based report card to meet the particular needs
and preferences of your school.
Before you begin setting up skills and concepts for your school, you must verify that
your maximum skills per student setting is sufficient to accommodate all skills in a
student’s record. This setting is found in Data Base PlusNew FilesSpecifications
(Page 2). If your students may have more than the default of 100 skills per student then
this value must be increased. You will use the Customize RC program in Report Cards
Plus to enter and store your customized lists of skills and concepts. The skills and
concepts you define will later be linked to specific courses and sections so that they can
appear in students transcript records.
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