In A High Schooler's Guide to Reaching the 99th Percentile, I explained the importance of sequencing apps, or completing multiple apps for each course.

While Khan includes many methods of testing the students and ensuring they know the content, it is extraordinarily easy to game the system. The holes in the content cause the comprehensiveness score to decrease.Īdaptability measures how well the app adjusts the content shown to a student based on what that student knows. Even if I completed a Khan math course to 100%, I would not be able to score above a 90% on a state-issued Credit by Examination (CBE) test for the same course. In my experience, Khan Academy teaches overall concepts and ideas, not individual problems and applications. Though Khan Academy provides many courses and subjects, I will focus on Khan Math, as I have spent the most time in the math courses.Ĭomprehensiveness measures the app's ability to cover all of the necessary content in a course. Please remember to support your high schoolers this month! This article has a similar model to Austin Scholar #5: Knowing Knewton and the “Working the Program” section goes through examples of me actually going through Khan, which is substituting the anecdote for this week. I’ve been pretty stressed and don’t have time to write a proper newsletter, so for this week’s issue I brought out an article from the vault: The Pros and Cons of Khan Academy. This week I’ve been consumed with studying and practice tests for next week’s exams. The previous newsletter went into depth about AP stress and how to manage the challenges that May brings to high school students, and let me tell you, I wasn’t exaggerating. Three sources on Khan’s effectiveness with high school students Please forward this newsletter to other parents who want to learn ways to help make twelve years of school less painful and more fulfilling for their children. Welcome to the Austin Scholar newsletter! To all of my new subscribers, I'm so excited and grateful that y'all are here! To all of my returning subscribers, welcome back, and thank you for the continued support.

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