KU076 University Fundamentals
Mike Bowe (Math Teacher):
Seminars: Wednesdays
8:00 – 9:00PM
mbowe@kaplan.edu
KU076 First Seminar Agenda
Course Home Page Navigation
Initial Assessments
Progress Reports
Other Classes’ Results
Course Topics
KU076 Course Home Page
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To get into the My Foundations Lab
(where all the testing and lessons take place):
Expand the Unit 1 tab
Choose My Foundations Lab
under Unit 1 (or another unit)
We want to finish each of the three Path Builders, plus the Study
Skills Learning Path, by next Tuesday (the end of Week 1)!
Course Topics
There are a total of 55 Topics to complete in this
course. You might “test-out” of some of them
upon finishing the initial assessments.
• Reading:
8 Topics to complete
• Writing:
11 Topics to complete
• Math:
31 Topics to complete
(Math has four Modules: Whole Numbers, Fractions,
Decimals, and Ratio-Proportion-Percent)
• Study Skills: 5 Topics to complete
Initial Assessments
• The initial assessments are very important; the rest of the
course will be defined by them. If you are not confident about
a topic on which you are being tested, you want to get it
wrong! Otherwise, you won’t be assigned to learn it.
• I am sorry that you have to do all this testing. And, it is not
easy material: we need to probe and learn what you do not
know; so it might feel discouraging. For example, my gut feel
is that about over half the test takers get no Math topics
completed at all from the tests!
• This course is great for those people that are allowing
themselves that last opportunity to learn the fundamentals
you’ll need in college, in your career, and just day-to-day life.
KU076 Passing Students:
Accumulated Topics Completed per Week
60
Completed Topics
Passing students, and
those that, well, didn’t. As
you might see, it did NOT
matter how well the
students started out.
Several who passed did
not start well, but they
persevered. Those folks
are the ones that gained
the most confidence in the
material, also.
50
40
30
20
10
0
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W9
W10
KU076 Non-Passing Students:
Accumulated Topics Completed per Week
60
50
Completed Topics
A recent semester’s
results:
40
30
20
10
0
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
Four Opportunities to “Test-Out”
of Topics for each Subject
• Initial Assessment (“Path Builder”)
• Second attempt at each Path Builder
• Skills Check for each of the six
Modules
• Second attempt of each Skills Check
After you finish all three of the Path Builders, you can re-take
each another time if you are not happy with the initial results.
These three horizontal rectangles are actually bar-graphs, and
will show your progress over time as you complete Topics.
After completing each “Path Builder”, you start
on your “Learning Paths”.
After clicking on the Learning Path (or the Path Builder):
Clicking on these boxes
show detailed results of
each subject’s Modules.
Topic List for
each subject.
Skills Checks (2) more
chances to Test-Out of each
subject!
Lesson
Activities for
each Topics.
Weekly Progress Report: Produced each
Wednesday, and uploaded into the Gradebook.
Weekly Progress Report: Click on your most recent
(bottom-most) grade value and from the new pop-up
window, click the document icon at the bottom
First steps forward:
Week 1 Graded Goal:
Complete the Path Builders for each of the three
subjects (do not re-take any yet): Reading, Writing,
and Math
Complete the Learning Path for Study Skills (completing
its five topics)
(After the first Path Builders have been completed, we will
take a look at the results. I will suggest a next step forward
for each subject (based on you working the least to achieve
the most). Generally speaking, if the initial Path Builder score
is between 30% and 70%, you should carefully review and
then retake the Path Builder.)
Next steps forward:
Typically (depending on initial results), the following might be
your next steps:
Concentrate on one of the three subjects at a time: Review
the initial Path Builder (try to understand the incorrect and
correct answers you’d done); Re-take that Path Builder when
ready.
Then, for that same subject, take the Skills Check (Math has one
for each of its four modules); then Review those results
carefully, understanding the incorrect and correct; then ReTake that Skills Check.
Repeat for each of the Path Builders and Skills Checks.
Math Note: I am planning a weekly seminar on each of the four
Math Modules: Whole Numbers, Fractions, Ratios