Week 7 & 8 Reflection

 

Going into this week's blog, we will be talking about not only week 7 but also week 8 work we did within the class!

Week 7:

For this week, we did Statistics and talking about Measurement. Something i know we can all remember is mean, median, mode, etc. 

Standardized Assessment Terms- 

    Population: The entire group of people for whom typical performance is estimated by the instrument.

    Sample: The group of people actually included in the study/test.

    Norming: Refers to the process of constructing norms or the typical performance of a group of individuals on achievement assessment.

Week 8:

What we had done over week 8 that is exciting is that we all got our field placements that we will be in starting October 17th! Starting off we did a funnnnnn excel assessment within the classroom, to show how using data drives instruction within the classroom. In the excel sheet we found the mean, median, mode, sum, and standard deviation. I thought that this was very fun because afterwards we got to create graphs to see which kids within that classroom struggled with certain topics based upon their test scores. I really like Excel because I have been using it since freshman year of college but i do forget how to use it sometimes. 

    Below is one of the bar graphs that I created in my Excel sheet. 

Here you can see where the students were more proficient in than others. Then we went into the discussion to close as why are these certain students struggling on most of the tests? Is there a learning situation they are struggling with? Are they ELA students that still don't quite understand the English language fully yet? These are all the questions we have to think about when evaluating assessments in the classroom, and how we can help.