Using Data to Drive Instruction
This week, we worked with excel to interpret student assessment data. I liked that we went over this, not only because we are going to have to do this in field, but also because excel is something that is confusing overall and is used all the time in real-world application. We completed graphs and calculated the sum, mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the assessment results. We also went over some basics of using excel, like copy and pasting results.
We also talked about statistics concepts during week 7. We went over score reports and how we have to understand these for things like teacher-parent conferences and so on. Some terms we went over regarding statistic assessment concepts are defined below:
Population: the entire group of people for whom the typical performance is estimated by.
ex) All five year-olds
Sample: group of people actually included in the testing or study.
Norming: the process of constructing norms or the typical performance of a group and testers are ranked in relation to other testers.
Criterion-referenced tests: test results are compared to a set of standard, and testers are ranked in relation to the body of tested knowledge.
*We first learned this concepts to apply later when working in excel and doing future learning and projects.
Hi Dana!! I really enjoyed reading your blog! There was lots of great information that helped me to better understand the topics that we have learned these past two weeks. I also loved the photo that you included. Great job !!
ReplyDeleteHi Dana! I love the image you included! You did a great job of having the definitions easily laid out and readable.
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