Determining the

Mastery and
Proficiency
Levels
Introduction
Teachers are always confronted with classroom situations for him
or her to proceed, reteach and or remediate. These are based on the
result of measurement. The usual method to make educational decision
is to determine the Mastery Level and proficiency levels. In this module
you will learn to make decisions based on these two levels.

Learning
Can make decisions
Outcome
based on mastery and
proficiency levels
 Learning Objectives
1. Define mastery and proficiency
levels.
2. Compute the mastery and
proficiency levels.
3. Differentiate mastery level from
proficiency level.

Important Points to Remember! Be ready to understand these.

Mastery level refers to the percentage of students who were able to master
the lesson. For example. 45 students out of 50 were able to master the lesson. It
means that the mastery level is 90%.

The formula is: ML = Total number of students who were able to master the
lesson divided by the N. N refers to the total of students in the whole class.

Ex. 30 were able to master out of 35 students.

ML = 86%
In this case, remedial teaching is necessary in order for five students to
master the lesson. The teacher should introduce teaching the strategies that are
best fitted to these students. He or she can utilize the fast learner students help the
needs of slow learners.

Proficiency level refers to the amount of the lesson learned by students. It is

the percentage of the lesson that were understood or absorbed by learners.

The formula for PL or proficiency level is Mean divided by the total number
of test items times 100.

The formula for the mean is total scores divided by number of students.

For example:
 There are 40 students in the class. The total number of test items
administered to the whole class is 5. Five students were able to perfect the test;
ten got a score of 4; fifteen got a score of 3; seven got 2; two got a score of 1;
and 1 got zero.

Determine the mean first:

Do this:

Score Number of Students Total Score

5 5 25
4 10 40
3 15 45
2 7 14
1 2 2
0 1 0
Total Score 126

126 divided by 40 = 3.15

Mean is 3.15 divided by total number of test items which is 5 equals = .63 or
63%

In this case, the proficiency level is often set at 75%. This means that the
teacher failed to attain her lesson objective. She needs to reteach the lesson.

Using the above data in determining the mastery level you can add the
frequency of the two high scores. There are fifteen students who got a score of 4
and 5. So fifteen divided by 40, the ML is 38% only. This means that the teaching
strategy applied by the teacher is not enough for students to absorb the lesson.
 Exercise 1
Directions: Determine the mastery and proficiency levels of the given data below:
Write your educational decisions every after each proficiency and mastery level.
Provide your solutions and answers.

1. 10 got a score of 7, the highest score; 6 got a score of 6; ten got a score of 5;
five got a score of 4; 6 got a score of 3; 3 got a score of 2; 1 got a score of 1
and nobody got zero.
2. The highest possible score is 5. Twelve got a score of 5; 15 got a score of 4;
and 3 got a score of 3. Nobody got a score of 2, 1 and zero.
3. Seventeen got a perfect score of 6; ten got a score of 5; 5 got a score of 4;
nobody got 3; 3 got 2; 3 got 1 and 1 got zero.
4. Fifteen got a score of ten; twelve got a score of 9; 5 got 8; 3 got 7; 5 got 6;
nobody got 5; 5 got 4 and nobody got 3, 2, and 1 but one got zero.
5. 1 got a perfect score of 5; 25 got a score of 4; 2 got 3; 1 got 2; 1 got 1 and
nobody got zero.

My Reflective
Analysis
How do you find the exercises? Write your reflective analysis in a separate
sheet of paper.
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My level of knowledge based on the rating scale below:

Excel Very Good Fair Needs

lent Good Improve-
Indicators 96- 86-90 81-85 ment
100 91-95 80 &
below
1. I can easily prepare
the
required outputs.
2. I have a clear grasp of
the different concepts
in this topic.
3. I find it easy to do all
the tasks given.
4. After reading varied
materials I found
myself to have a wide
knowledge about the
topic
Over-all self-rating

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Adopted from:

NONITO M. BLANCIA, MAED

Associate Professor V

JUN P. DALISAY, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor IV