Individual Strategy Recommendations

Overview

Individual Strategy Recommendations are available as part of the DESSA Strategies and Interventions. For students who have a full assessment, educators will see two recommendations based on the individual student’s ratings – one Strength Strategy, based on the student's top-scoring competency, and one Growth Strategy, based on their lowest-scoring item in the lowest-scoring competency. These data-driven strategy recommendations are aligned with rating results from full assessments, including DESSA, DESSA 40, DESSA-HSE, DESSA MS SSR and DESSA HS SSR. Each strategy recommendation will also contain the strategy tracking functionality. For students without a full assessment, such as students who only have a DESSA-mini applied, educators will be directed to explore the Foundations Practices for more ideas.

How to Access Individual Strategy Recommendations

1. In the Educator Portal, navigate to the Data and Insights tab at the top of the page.

2. On the left side of the screen, select the My Students page. Using the Filters at the top of the My Student page, select any full assessment under Forms (DESSA, DESSA 40, DESSA-HSE, DESSA MS SSR, and DESSA HS SSR) and click Apply. 

3. Scroll down to the student breakdown table and click on a student's name. 

4. On the student's individual report page, under the Individual Rating Report Graph and Chart, is the section that highlights Individual Recommendations (see image 1). 

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In this section, you will see two strategy recommendations (see Image 2):

• Strength Strategy, based on the top-scoring item in the student's top-scoring competency
• Growth Strategy, based on the lowest-scoring item in the student's lowest-scoring competency

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5. Select the Use Strategy button to either view and download the strategy, and/or track the strategy. When tracking the strategy, you can add it to the individual student profile, or add additional students with the Custom Groups dropdown, Select All Students I Rate button, or Search Students to find and add additional students (see Image 3). After tracking the strategy, you will see it added in the Support Strategies section of your Individual Student Rating report.

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