The school already requires the teachers who teach similar classes to give common assessments and to track the students' scores on them. We keep track of average scores, % of students who are advanced, proficient, close to proficient, far to go, and missed the boat (our own terminology for it). I have been doing this for each of my classes, as well as keeping a running total.
I have also been keeping track of how well my students are doing on certain standards. I chose a handful of standards my students need that go throughout the entire year. I call them power standards, although I'm not sure I'm necessarily using the phrase correctly.
How do I track the power standards? Well, for each of the common assessments (we make our unit tests our common assessments, as well as our final exams), I figured out which questions matched up with one of my power standards. I then tracked how many students in each class missed these questions. I could then keep a running total of the accuracy percentage of my students on each standard.
It sounds difficult, but it's really not. It's just a little time consuming. For example, on our Short Story Unit Test, question #s 1, 7, 12 and 15 were on characterization. I tracked how many students missed each of these particular questions. If 12 out of 23 of my students in a particular class missed question #1, 15 of them missed #7, 2 missed #12, and none of them missed #15, then my students in that class had a 68.5% accuracy (meaning the amount they got correct) on characterization.
I could then track how each class did on each of the standards for each of the tests. This way I could track their progress over the semester. Again, it was a lot of math, a lot of tic-marks, and a bit time consuming, but it was well worth it. I find it absolutely fascinating to see how my students are doing. My students find it absolutely fascinating as well (no lie--they want to see their progress). Plus, it's super motivating for them.
Want to know what it looks like? Well, here are some of the graphs I made just by entering the data into excel and having it create some for me.
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This is an example from one of my classes, tracking how many students were at each level on each test. |
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This is what it looks like when I track test score averages for each class on each test. |
What do you think? Do you track your data? If so, do you have suggestions for me?
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