Progressive Practice Plan

1. Curate your assessment set.

For each unit, select ~25 rigorous Albert questions to use as a summative assessment. These become your unit test, ensuring students are tested on the most important content and skills.
2. Organize and assign the rest for practice.

Use folders to group the remaining questions by topic or unit, and assign them for practice at the start of the semester. Encourage students to track their progress and revisit missed questions.
3. Build cumulative review sets.

At the end of each semester, combine previously assigned practice questions into a review folder for the final exam. In the spring, expand this into a full-year review folder to help students practice switching between topics—a key skill for exam success.

From Lisa H.'s classroom

It’s hard to answer questions from multiple units of any course. Students' brains need the challenge of switching topics and accessing knowledge quickly. That’s why I use Albert: they see questions when studying for the unit test, again for the semester final, and again for the year-end review—and they learn something new every time.

In the fall, my students always say, ‘Albert is so hard!’ That’s my favorite moment, because I get to tell them why. I explain that Albert is their weighted bat—it’s meant to be tough now so the end of course exam feels lighter later. And they believe me—because it works.

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From Ms. Hellinger classroom

1. Curate your assessment set.

2. Organize and assign the rest for practice.

3. Build cumulative review sets.

From Lisa H.'s classroom