Feedback Report

According to the TEKS, days, months, and seasons are not aligned with what is expected of students at this level. Students are expected to identify two and three dimensional shapes and attributes, classify and sort them, and to create them. I'm not sure typing the names and matching the words is the rigor that the TEKS is expecting.

On the teacher platform under reports, there are no TEKS displayed. There is no way for a teacher to look at specific TEKS to see whether a student mastered the skill or not. This information is imperative to inform instruction for small group intervention for these students.

The screen has the number 10 in the left top corner and 19 in the right top corner, and it tells the student to type the numbers in order. It is assumes that kinder and first graders will be able to ascertain what is expected of them with only two numbers available to them. I think the instructions should be more explicit, so they understand what it is they are being asked to do.

This particular screen has people with balloons and the question asks, "How many people did you ask in total?" When I first accessed this skill, it came up as the first question. Now while I was able to figure this out, I do not think K-1 will likely be able to understand what the question is asking. When I accessed it a second time, this question came up after asking how many more balloons were red than blue and another question. I'm not sure if you can ensure that this question does not come up first and the student is able to work through more questions before getting to this one for context.

My SR group mate found a picture of a monkey with huge red lipsticked lips puckered. I have also seen the same picture; therefore, it will be seen multiple times throughout skills practice. We find it a bit sexual and inappropriate for K-1 students. This has been reported, but I wanted to give context on the reported item.

This particular skill is having the student sort shapes; however, with only two answer choices for the student to choose from and having the opportunity to choose the right answer after choosing the wrong answer does not help the student to learn the concept. Once the student is done and did not meet mastery, there is no follow up lesson or practice for the student to do in order to master this skill.

The objective is for the student to 'decide which way of counting you would use to describe the pattern in the cereal bowl'. I'm concerned that a student that is using this program (because they have deficits) will struggle with this concept without first having some practice using and identifying patterns first.

When typing in the month as an answer, it will not allow the correct answer in all lowercase. Keep in mind that this is K-1 and they may not be able to or know how to capitalize using the keyboard. I do not believe K-1 is using a keyboard when working on computer programs (typically they use iPads).

The interactive component is a great way to engage students in the learning. However, as previously stated, I don't see that the students truly understand the skill(s) that is being being learned. The game gives instructions on what the students are to do and also gives them a sound to let them know whether they answered correctly or incorrectly. If they answer incorrectly, it can become somewhat of a guessing game, in the fact that if they choose wrong again, they arrive at the correct answer by process of elimination. They still don't have no idea as why they were missing the question in the 1st place.

The worksheets are a bit more informative in the sense that both the student and teacher know what skill is being retaught. I can see the connections between students moving from concrete objectives to more abstract ones. You can also choose which problems you want the students to focus on rather than them going through the same series of games, with the only variation being the skills being taught.

Students are expected to capitalize the first letter of the months, which technically is correct; however, it is not specified and students may not know how to do so or don't use keyboards when utilizing computer-based programs.

There are two pictures that asks whether one picture is longer or shorter than the other. This can be confusing based on how the pictures are situated because it will depend on the perspective of the person that is completing the task to determine which picture is first.

There is a question that asks how many months have 30 days? Technically all but one have 30 days. I think the question can be confusing and needs to be more specific like the question that was asked - How many months have "only" 28 days?

If I understood correctly students cannot be assigned more that one set of skills at a time. While I can see some of the rationale behind this, Math skills build upon each other and things move in a linear format. If students are needing to work on multiple skills, they are not allowed to do this.

My overall view of the activities is as follows:
- Although this is an interactive program, there are low levels of student engagement.
- Student feedback is not clear and/or concise because when student miss an answer, they have another opportunity to get it correct. Even after missing it the second time, the one answer that is left is the correct answer. How is this an accurate measurement of what the students really know?

The TEKS for coin identification do not include half-dollar and dollar but your activity includes those coins.

The pictorial representation of the flowers will confuse students (the flowers are not the same, some pictures have 2 flowers in 1).

Students would struggle reading and spelling the month as an answer. Possibly have students click on the correct month that is displayed on the graph.

Kindergarteners cannot read those words. Using pictures instead would make it appropriate for the age group (e.g. instead of the word skate, put the picture of the skate displayed on the balance)

The word "favorite" is spelled in two different ways. The graph title has the spelling "Favourite" the question below uses the spelling "favorite".