Analyzing Science Periodic Assessment Data

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Analyzing SciencePeriodic Assessment Data

• 2006-2007

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Goals of data analysis

• To provide insight into what our students know
  and what they dont know
• To facilitate conversation around instruction
  that leads to short term and long term
  instructional goals based on the periodic
  assessment data.

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Working Norms

• Begin on time, end on time.
• Take care of yourself and others.
• Be here in mind and spirit.
• Turn cell phones to off or vibrate.
• Observe the rule of 3
• Others

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Departmental Data Analysis

• Facilitator Science Lead Teacher (SLT)
• Recorder I - charts for whole group
• Recorder II - actionable items
• Timekeeper

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Score ReportsITEM RESPONSE REPORT
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Categorizing

• Highlight the 5 questions with the top scores.
• In another color, highlight the 5 questions with
  the bottom scores

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Organizing

• Highest Scores Lowest Scores
• Question Standard Question
  Standard

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Choosing a question

• Decide which question(s) to examine further.

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Determine the context

• Using the California Framework, determine where
  this question fits in the conceptual flow for the
  standard set.

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Infer

• What are your inferences for why students did not
  score well on this question?

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Determine Instructional Implications

• Short term What can be done in the remainder of
  the school year to move students forward?
• Long term How can we alter instruction for next
  year to improve student success in this need area?

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Let us put our heads together and see what life
we will make for our children.

• --Tatanka Iotanks
• (Sitting Bull, Lakota)