This is a collection of mostly Khan Academy links and a few other resources that will help students prepare for the Accuplacer Exam.
It is a self-study for students who did not place into college level math
Type of Material:
Collection, Tutorial
Recommended Uses:
Self study, individual Practice.
Technical Requirements:
All Browsers
Identify Major Learning Goals:
These resources will help the students prepare for the ACCUPLACER abd will help the student improve their ACCUPLACER score and therefore their placement.
Target Student Population:
Basic skills students who are just beginning their college math sequence, College General Ed. First-time undergraduate students.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Algebra skils
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This site contains some helpful information about preparing for the Accuplacer test, what the test is about, and how to interpret scores. Included are a large collection of links to the Khan Academy videos and tutorials. A link to a Khan Academy video or tutorial is included for every topic that a student should review is included.
It includes tutorials for all the objectives. There are Two levels of tutorials .
Concerns:
This site will only be effective for the student who can learn from the Khan Academy resources. The vast majority of links are to videos. Only a few topics are covered that allow the students to work on problems. The site would benefit from not just restricting itself to Khan Academy links.
There are no practice exercises for he Students.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
This is valuable as a review for students who want the quick highlights of Mathematics basic objectives.
Since the links are very well labeled, a student can easily go to just the topics that are needed for review. I student can be quickly directed to this site and get a reminder about the basic skills mathematics that are questions on the Accuplacer test. A student can also get a feel for what the Accuplacer is about by going to the well written explanations about the test.
Concerns:
A student may think that he or she understands the concepts after watching the Khan Academy videos, but may end up doing poorly on the Accuplacer because most of these links do not ask the students to actually do math problems.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
It is easy to use. Students will have no difficulty navigating through the material.
The topics are well labeled and the links are clearly described. Any student should be able to just go to this site and get started without any further explanation.
Concerns:
The site is a bit plain with just black and white text and background and blue links. Only a limited amount of interactivity is included.
Several of the links are broken.
Creative Commons:
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