Caution
Prescriptive Testing will not work on eDynamic Learning courses, World Language courses, or any course imported from Imagine Odysseyware. It also does not work on courses that do not have quizzes, such as the Career Pathways series.
Prescriptive testing works by generating an assessment that the student takes at the very beginning of the course. As such, it can only be enabled before the student has started the course. This assessment is generated automatically, selecting one question from each lesson in the course. If the student answers a question correctly, the corresponding lesson is automatically customized out of the course. This test does not count towards a grade or progress, so if a student earns 100% on it, there will be no graded activities for him/her to complete. Also, if a student has already started a course, prescriptive testing is no longer an option.
If prescriptive testing is turned on, but there aren't any lessons with quizzes, then this feature will be bypassed. In the case of a course where quizzes are included but there are some lessons without quizzes, then students will take a prescriptive test for those lessons with quizzes. The lessons without quizzes will be automatically assigned to the student.
Prescriptive tests cannot be reset, so you will need to disable the enrollment for the student and then re-enroll the student in the course.
Impact to final exam
This feature is dynamic in that the final exams will only cover the material the student had to complete in the course. The lessons a student tested out of will not be assessed on the exam. This means if a student tests out of all lessons:
- The exam at the end of the course is bypassed there is no content to build the assessment with.
- No grade displays for the course because the prescriptive test is not scored/counted.
- If you want to record a grade for the course without having the student take any additional action, you can add an Additional Activities category and then add an additional activity with a score that will be the grade for the course.
- If you want the student to take an exam that is scored and counts for a grade, you can create an exam-only course.
Caution
Please keep in mind that prescriptive testing only includes one question per lesson, which is not a valid or reliable measure of whether a student has mastered the lesson content. For this reason, Edgenuity does not recommend using the prescriptive testing setting. We strongly encourage schools to use pretesting (which uses 10 questions per lesson) instead.
Enabling and disabling prescriptive testing
To find out how to enable/disable prescriptive testing, use one of the following links:
- Edit the Course Options for a Student
- Edit the Course Options for a Single Course
- Edit the Course Options for Multiple Courses
Tip
When Prescriptive Tests are enabled, you can also set it for Teacher Review at a course or student level.