ALEKS Information

ALEKS (Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces) is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system for grades 3–12. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what topics a student knows and doesn’t know in a course. ALEKS then instructs each student on the topics they are most ready to learn.

ALEKS is purposefully designed to help educators:

• Identify instructional gaps.

• Personalize learning paths

• Track the progress of student learning and mastery

As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student’s knowledge to ensure that topics learned are also retained. It’s an approach that has proven to create math confidence and measurable success for over 20 years.

ALEKS courses align with state and national standards, making it a perfect complement to any classroom environment. The proven technology of ALEKS can integrate with any system, anywhere, on any device.

To date, ALEKS has helped more than 20 million students at thousands of K–12 schools, colleges, and universities throughout the world.

The mathematics department staff at South Newton Middle School felt very strongly that ALL students needed a tool to help reinforce skills, eliminate misconceptions, and fill gaps of learning loss. After carefully reviewing many programs and our own processes and values, we came to the conclusion that the ALEKS program by McGraw Hill was the right tool for the job and the best possible resource for our students. ALEKS is used extensively in our classrooms whether it be assigned as a warm-up for students to complete when they come into the room to the ability to assign students homework, quizzes, and tests through the online and adaptive platform where no two students receive the same questions and every aspect of the program is tailored to each individual student. At SNMS, we believe strongly that all people are math people and we strive each day to ensure that our students have the best opportunities to demonstrate their understanding, interact, and maninpulate with the math to promote lifelong learners and problem-solvers.