How does skill tracking work?

🔍 What is a skill in Ed.ai?

A skill is a precise, observable ability that a student uses in an assessment.

In Ed.ai, skills are at the core of automated grading, personalized reteaching and progress tracking. They keep grading consistent, fine-grained and useful over time.

Every assessment, exercise or question is linked to one or more skills, so your assessments line up with what students are expected to learn.

📘 What do skills look like in math?

In math, Ed.ai’s skills are the standards of the curriculum you choose when you add an assessment: Common Core (CCSSM), Advanced Placement, your state’s standards (48 states are covered, including Texas, California, New York and North Carolina) or higher education.

• For each grade and course, the skills come from the standards themselves, so you can see precisely what each student has mastered over the year.

• For each skill, a rubric spells out the expectations for each mastery level: “Below Expectations”, “Emerging”, “Satisfactory” and “Excellent”.

• A few concrete examples

  • Grade 8: the Pythagorean Theorem (Common Core)

    • 8.G.6 - Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse

    • 8.G.7 - Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find unknown side lengths (2D and 3D)

      • Below Expectations: the student adds the two known sides, or always solves for the hypotenuse even when a leg is unknown.

      • Emerging: the student sets up a² + b² = c² but places the hypotenuse as a leg, or forgets to take the square root at the end.

      • Satisfactory: the student applies the Pythagorean Theorem to find an unknown leg or hypotenuse in right triangles in two- and three-dimensional problems, giving exact or approximate answers.

      • Excellent: the student solves an unfamiliar three-dimensional problem that requires two applications of the theorem (for example, the diagonal of a box), or explains and corrects a setup that placed a leg where the hypotenuse belongs.

    • 8.G.8 - Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find distance between two points

  • High school: sequences (Common Core)

    • F-IF.3 - Recognize sequences as functions defined on the integers

    • F-BF.2 - Write arithmetic and geometric sequences recursively and explicitly

🎯 Why organize assessments by skill?

Organizing by skill lets you:

• Grade with more precision: on every assessment, Ed.ai analyzes the skills assessed and how well each student masters them. This goes one level finer than a score or a broad competency, so you know exactly where each student is strong and where they struggle.

• Track progress over time: you can follow each skill across several assessments.

• Spot reteaching needs: Ed.ai can generate targeted exercises on the skills that need more work.

📈 How do you track skills in Ed.ai?

For an assessment

Once an assessment is graded, you get Ed.ai’s detailed skills analysis (alongside your own grading system, with scores and/or competencies):

• The list of skills the assessment covers

• Each student’s mastery level on each skill

• An overview of how results break down by skill

For a group or class

Results add up automatically across several assessments, so you can:

• Spot the skills your class masters most often or struggles with, grouped by topic when possible

• Identify whole-class priorities or specific needs (by grade, group or time of year)

For a student

Each student also has statistics on:

• The history of the skills they were assessed on

• The mastery level they reached and how it changes over time (when a skill appears on several assessments)

For reteaching

Skills feed straight into reteaching activities. See Remédiation : fonctionnement et bonnes pratiques