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This is a data tracking sheet that a teacher leader from my school shared with me my first year. The students complete it after each assessment (per the teacher's discretion). It allows the students track their growth, as well as the teacher, and creates documentation to look back on!

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Analyzing data can take many different forms and go to many different levels. The two biggest tips I've learned from teacher leaders at my school is to first figure out which questions students did the worst on and why. Did the vocabulary trick them? Was it a Part A Part B question? Was it a multiselect question? Was it tech enhanced? This gives you a good place to start in terms of post testing review and what testing strategies need to be discussed. From there, focus on the lowest scoring standards. This tells you the direction your lessons need to go in the coming days or weeks in order to clear up any misconceptions and best help students grow.

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While this isn't something a teacher leader provided me, it is the school's benchmark data reflection form reimagined by yours truly. The content is the same, but I've made it more organized and aesthetically pleasing as to promote quick attainment of the necessary information. I'm using this because I do think it does a great job of demonstrating how to communicate data. It focuses on the highlights, encourages you to consider what you can do, and provides the opportunity to highlight your needs from higher level faculty and administration in order to meet your goals.

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There are so many ways to collect student data that to just use your standard test would be both a shame and a disappointment. Some resources that have been shared throughout my school include Google Forms, EdPuzzle, Quizizz, Edulastic, Edutopia, and NearPod. My favorites include EdPuzzle, Quizizz, Kahoot, and NearPod. Why? They make "testing" fun! EdPuzzle iand NearPod are great for getting immediate feedback on recently learned or reviewed content. This includes open ended questions and multiple choice questions. They're great platforms for spicing up your bellringers and exit tickets, too! I especially love Quizizz because the kids love it. It's a great way to reinvent standardized testing. Students answer multiple choice questions just as they normally would, except they compete with one another for points. They can also earn powerups and special "battle" moves that can sabotage their classmates. At the end of it all, it compiles data for you by class, question, and percentages.

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At my school, we use a testing service called enCASE. As seen in the picture above, it can organize the data in a variety of ways including by question, by standard, by performance levels, etc. Many of the programs mentioned to the left also create data for you. Much of this data is then exportable to spreadsheets such as Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. These are great resources because they enable you to create formulas that will calculate the numbers and percentages for you. You can then easily select the data to create easy to read tables and charts. I especially enjoy color coding the data to make it even easier and quicker to digest. Check out a snapshot of some data in Google Sheets below. You can see where the percentage for the standards were recorded for each student, then converted to PL levels into a table, and then further calculated to determine the number of students passing and number of students proficient on the assessment. I then assessed my data further to compare it to the 7th grade data as a whole. Sometimes, I will also create a pie chart from the tables as well.

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Collaboration is the name of the game when it comes to communicating data. Not shown in the picture to the left is that all faculty data is included in the spreadsheet. This data is broken into subjects, grade levels, and then classroom teachers. This allows ALL teachers access to see how we are doing as a school, as a grade level, as a subject area, as a grade level in a specific subject area, etc. I personally find this great for monitoring my own students. It can be helpful to know how they are performing in math and science compared to my class. It's also simply important to reach out to other teachers. They can tell you if so and so is performing as expected. Or perhaps, they aren't doing as well as they should be in all their classes. Maybe one teacher has information that might help other teachers better work with or teach a particular student. Within my district, we have "Data Days" which afford me the opportunity to speak with my colleagues about the data in this manner. This is also a great opportunity for meeting with subject area teachers across grade levels in an effort to garner new strategies for teaching standards that students potentially performed poorly in.