I am an avid user of the learning continuum.
At our schools, we are avid users of the learning continuum. We use this to differentiate and plan our lessons accordingly. When the students were placed next to the standard they needed "next" it was a quick and easy way to make plans to match their instructional needs. Now that this feature is gone and "updated" I (we) are literally panicking! We are so upset! HA! The learning continuum before was "hard" to read (I wish we could have just printed the standard we were working on), but NOW it is not user friendly. Not only are the students names missing by their RIT level, but the scrolling is not user friendly. I'm saying all of this with love and as a suggestion, but we sure are upset at our school! :(
Carrie Poss
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Aurielle Drive commented
I agree. We were extremely upset. Our district is constantly telling us to refer to the learning continuum to make instructional plans and now it is completely unusable. What took mere minutes to glean from the webpage took over an hour and we are still very confused. As teachers, we have so much work to do, and we don't have time to waste trying to decipher this change. I will be using diagnostic tests from other sources until NWEA gets its act together.
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Allison Benner commented
I completely agree, this new feature adds an additional step for planning instruction related to student needs. The old learning continuum grouped students into their RIT band and explicitly stated the skills they were ready to learn. Not including student names into each RIT band within the standard makes it so much harder and time consuming to plan and try to improve their skills. Please bring this feature back!