Note
This article applies to the following products:
- Imagine MyPath Math
- Imagine MyPath Reading
Domain placement in MyPath Math and MyPath Reading uses assessment results for areas within a subject, called domains, to personalize each student's lesson sequence.
Students may need different levels of instruction across domains. MyPath uses these results to select essential lessons and address skill gaps rather than relying only on an overall placement grade.
How domain placement builds the learning path
MyPath uses a student's rostered grade, placement grade, and domain results to personalize instruction.
- Rostered grade
The grade listed in the student's account.
- Placement grade
The overall instructional grade level determined by assessment results or selected by an educator.
- Domain placement
The instructional level determined by assessment results for a specific area within math or reading.
For students working below their rostered grade, MyPath begins with essential prerequisite lessons based on the lowest-performing domain. Prerequisite lessons teach skills students need for later content.
- The path includes essential skills across the student's areas of need.
- Non-essential lower-grade lessons are removed so students can focus on the skills they need.
- Students do not necessarily complete every lesson between their placement grade and rostered grade.
Domain results also help personalize instruction for students working above their rostered grade. Their paths can include higher-grade content and foundational skills where assessment results identify gaps.
For students whose overall placement grade is above their rostered grade, turning on Enable Content Bridge adds essential lessons from their rostered grade before higher-grade content. See Managing student learning path settings for details.
Assessment requirements
Imagine+ Diagnostic and NWEA MAP Growth provide domain-level assessment data for MyPath Math and MyPath Reading. Renaissance Star provides overall grade-level placement but does not provide domain-level data through the integration.
How assessment domains connect to lessons
MyPath maps assessment results to lesson domains. Assessment and lesson domains may use different names. To review these connections, see the mapping guide for your standards:
When multiple assessment domains map to one lesson domain, MyPath uses the lowest of those placement grades for that lesson domain.
Example of a personalized learning path
The diagram below shows a student rostered in Grade 5 whose assessment results place them at Grade 2 in Domain A, Grade 3 in Domain B, and Grade 4 in Domain C.
Their path includes essential skills from Grades 2, 3, and 4 to address gaps and prepare for Grade 5 content. It skips non-essential lower-grade lessons, shown by the gray bars.
Both MyPath Math and MyPath Reading can include lower-grade lessons to address skill gaps. Content is presented in age-appropriate ways, including when students work on foundational skills.
How manual placement changes affect domain placement
Changing a student's overall placement grade replaces the individual domain placement grades used to personalize that subject's learning path with the selected grade.
Before making a change, review Editing a student's placement grade for instructions and the effects of a manual placement change.
Review domain results and personalized lessons
Assessment results and learning-path lessons provide different information. Use the reports below to review each.
Review assessment results by domain
If your organization uses Imagine+ Diagnostic for placement, review the Diagnostic Report in Imagine+ Assessment to see student performance by domain and compare results across assessments.
See Analyze the student-level Diagnostic Report in Imagine+ Assessment.
Review the personalized lesson sequence
The Student Progress report shows the lessons assigned to a student, including lesson domains and grade levels.
- Current and Complete shows lessons the student is working on or has completed.
- Upcoming shows the lessons the student will receive next.
Review lesson domains, grade levels, and sequence to understand the content assigned. Assessment-based domain placement and performance on in-lesson Mastery Checks can both affect the lesson sequence. Lesson domains and grade levels alone do not show why an individual lesson was assigned.