COMPETENCY 1: Accountability

Related Task 1.1

Ability to analyze and interpret the meaning of various student assessments to boards,
teaching staff, and others.

Specific Task 1.1.3

Ability to use assessment data to identify weaknesses and recommend strategies for
improving student performance

Narrative Description of Specific Task

Analyze the Ed Performance data in math in grades 2-5 and identify the weaknesses
that the struggling students exhibit within the different math domains. Prepare a plan for
the students who are struggling the most to help them with the skills they are lacking.
Present these strategies to the classroom teachers and intervention teachers of these
struggling students so that they can help to make these students more successful.

Description and Analysis of the Administrative Activities

The rationale for doing this competency was to help teachers and myself to
individualize their students instruction and to use the data to help drive their teaching.
Ed Performance is helpful and it is an assessment that we give our students three times
a year. Since it was a test we were already required to give, we might as well use the
information to help the students in their education. It shows what concepts that the
students do not have mastered and the ones that they need a little more work on them
so that they can master these concepts.
After all the students in grades 2-5 were finished taking Ed Performance, I had to
go to the Ed Performance website and find the scores for each grade level and import
them into an Excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet broke down the students scores,
within that grade level, and showed their score within each domain. I took their scores
in each math domain (Numbers & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and
Data & Probability) and sorted the scores from the lowest student score to the highest
student score in each domain. After I did this, I was able to form groups using the
Suggested Learning Objectives (see below) document that was found on the Ed
Performance website. This document looks at the students score in a domain and you
are able to find standards to work on in each domain based on their score in that area.

For example, if a student received a score of 1701 in the Numbers & Operations
domain, then I was able to look at the Suggested Learning Objectives document and
determine what skills this student needed to work on to increase their score and what
skills they were lacking that needed to be worked on so that they could fill the gap in
their learning. From this point, I was able to form groups based on their scores in each
mathematics domain and was able to look at the skills they were lacking and which
ones they had mastered in that domain. With this knowledge, these students
instruction can be individualized and they can receive the instruction that they need in
order to be successful.

Reflections on Lessons Learned

This process was extremely time-consuming and at times overwhelming, but
overall valuable and significant. The Ed Performance website made it easier though
because I was able to import the scores into an Excel spreadsheet and it made it easier
to sort the scores from lowest to highest. It would have been more work if this feature
was not part of the website. The information was presented to the classroom teachers
and to the intervention teachers. Most were receptive to the information and the
method. This is the way that I will be working with my students and the skills that I will
be working on with them. I am working on the skills that the students will need in order
to be successful and will help them to get a better understanding of mathematics. The
classroom teachers are using the information to work with the students that are
struggling and making sure they are working on the standards that they have not
mastered yet.

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