Looking at students' work

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Looking at students' work
By Cynthia LEE SKH St Peters Primary School
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Why?
Curriculum planning material design
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When?
Every day?
Once a term?
Once a year?
Too late? Too frequent? How to strike a balance?
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How?
Quantitative analysis?
All parts?
Selected parts only?
Qualitative analysis?
Both?
NO prescribed mode
Primary concern Looking for patterns in
students work and understanding why the students
make mistakes (Misconception? Laziness?
Carelessness? Not taught before? Lack of input?
Infrequent practice / recycling? )
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What NEXT?

• Re-teaching / re-cycling in the next module
• Careful scaffolding
• Change in teaching strategies
• Designing worksheets etc.

Be specific, explicit and clear
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From finding to curriculum planning
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Reading Comprehension
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2nd Term Test Part G (April 04)
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Look at these photos, Betty. This is my father,
George. He is a policeman. My mother, May, likes
children. She is a teacher. This is my uncle,
Jack. He is a postman. He has a big bag. My aunt,
Lily, is a singer. She can sing very well. This
is my grandfather, David. He is a driver.
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Part G (Full marks 12) Class A B C Max 11
12 12 Min 0 0 0 Average 5.81 6.12 6.54
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5 students
18 students
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Part G
Finding

• Most students perform quite poorly in this part.
• 5 students score full marks.
• 18 students do not get any marks.
• Quite a lot of students directly lift the answers
  from the text without understanding the meaning.

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Look at these photos, Betty. This is my father,
George. He is a policeman. My mother, May, likes
children. She is a teacher. This is my uncle,
Jack. He is a postman. He has a big bag. My aunt,
Lily, is a singer. She can sing very well. This
is my grandfather, David. He is a driver.

• Q1 What does May do?
• She is a teacher. (correct)
• She is teacher. (correct but with grammatical
  mistakes)
• My mother. (not understanding the question)
• May, likes children. (direct copying)

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Look at these photos, Betty. This is my father,
George. He is a policeman. My mother, May, likes
children. She is a teacher. This is my uncle,
Jack. He is a postman. He has a big bag. My aunt,
Lily, is a singer. She can sing very well. This
is my grandfather, David. He is a driver.

• Q2 Who has a big bag?
• Jack has a big bag. (correct)
• Jack. (correct)
• Jack is a big bag. (correct but with grammatical
  mistakes)
• He is a postman. (direct copying)
• Postman has a big bag. (understanding that he
  refers to postman but fail to infer that the
  postman is Jack)
• Yes, it is. (not understanding the question)

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Look at these photos, Betty. This is my father,
George. He is a policeman. My mother, May, likes
children. She is a teacher. This is my uncle,
Jack. He is a postman. He has a big bag. My aunt,
Lily, is a singer. She can sing very well. This
is my grandfather, David. He is a driver.

• Q3 Is Aunt Lily a nurse?
• No, she is not. (correct)
• No, it is not. (correct but with grammatical
  mistakes)
• No, she not a nurse. (correct but with
  grammatical mistakes)
• I dont No. (wrong)
• Yes, it is. (wrong)
• No, it is a singers. (correct but with
  grammatical mistakes???)

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Follow-up

1. Design some reading comprehension exercises for
   students
2. Teach reading skills in depth through the reader
   Goldilocks and the three bears

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2nd Term Exam Part B (July 04)
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Peter, Lily and I go to the zoo today. We go
there by bus. At the zoo, we can see many
animals. There are three monkeys. One is small
and two are big. There are four giraffes. There
is an elephant. It is big. There is a panda, too.
It is in the cage.
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Part B (Full marks 8) Class A B C Max 7.5
8 8 Min 0 1.5 0 Average 4.22 5.05 5.11
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Part B

• Finding
• Q3 How many animals are there? is especially
  difficult for most students since they fail to
  interpret the sentences There are three monkeys.
  One is small and two are big
• Some students do not understand the question How
  many?
• Some students do not start with capital letters
  when writing the answers.

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directly lifting the answer from the text
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Comparing students performance in reading
comprehension in test and examination
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Comparing students average scores in reading
comprehension in test and examination
Test (Part G) Class A B C Average
() 43 51 55
Examination (Part B) Class A B C Average
() 53 63 64
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4 students
4 students
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Comparing the no. of students getting full and
zero marks in reading comprehension in test and
examination
Test (Part G) Full Zero No. of
students 5 18
Examination (Part B) Full Zero No. of
students 4 4
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Discussion time
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What are students problems in learning?
How can students learn better?
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Misspelling the plural form of
sandwich (sandwiches)
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Students know that the possessive pronouns
their and our are for plural nouns, but they
are not familiar with their difference.
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Cannot make pronoun reference to the previous
sentence
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Not understanding the difference between long
and tall
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Not understanding the opposites
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• Lots of careless mistakes in writing (e.g.
  spelling, plural, article etc.)
• More practice on error correction
• Promoting self / peer correction in the class

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Thanks