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some students want to do well
students became impassioned about an argumentative topic

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Students improved on their abilities of choosing appropriate textual evidence.

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Students were more engaged and were willing to write more in a short time period. Better text evidence to support claims.

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Students were able to back up claim with evidence

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Many fewer students are in the lowest tiers of writing -- students are at least showing some development during writing.

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Students were able to write a claim, and identify evidence to support the claim.

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My lower students did attempt to write a well constructed topic sentence. I also noticed that my students are explaining their evidence.

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Students were more aware of providing evidence to support their claim. They, however need to work on explaining the evidence and how it supports their claim.

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Students still need to explain their evidence better. More elaboration. More insight and reasons "why" evidence supports their claim.

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Students still struggle with explaining what the evidence has to do with their answer.

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Merlette Including evidence and support from a text

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Merlette Including evidence and support from a text

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Students were able to compare texts and incorporate evidence. At the beginning of the year, most only summarized one text. Now they were able to compare and give specific quotes.

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writing COMPLETE sentence
making better use of transitions

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Students in general explain their ideas and evidence a bit, but need to elaborate further. Students also need to explicitly tie their explanations to their evidence.

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A big reason our numbers look so poor is because we have a great number of students we aren't allowed to "count" for our SLO. I have 26 top level students who would all be proficient on this task. Because Fischer and I split this class, their numbers do not appear anywhere in our data.

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Identifying credible evidence and making valid arguments

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Merlette Including evidence from ALL required text

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Merlette Including evidence from ALL required text

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Students struggled to categorize their evidence into reasons.

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Students are actually learning how to embed evidence. That makes me proud!

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My CC class struggles to make a full paragraph that includes a topic sentence, evidence and explanation of evidence.

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Even though students are attempting to explain or elaborate their evidence, I am only getting a one sentence response.

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The students were able to compare the texts (in one text they talk about ... & in the other text they talk about....). They were able to use transitions really well.

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We still have a long way to go when it comes to their writing skills and abilities. They don't know the basics, and it affects how well they are writing. Many of them are too afraid to write for fear they will mess up.

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Students struggled with fully explaining the reasoning their use behind their textual evidence. Lower students also had trouble forming full paragraphs that fully connected to the prompt.

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Students used direct evidence from the texts in the Mid Year when they had not done that in the Baseline

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Although the growth wasn't huge, it did show upward movement and improvement.

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Students did not answer all parts of the question--or seemed confused by the question

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The students struggled with finding the evidence that supported their points/ choosing evidence that would help them with their writing. They don't elaborate.

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Evidence is more aligned with claim, and claims are more complex and thoughtful. More students have appropriate, if not on-target, responses.

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Students can find evidence to support their very distinct opinions

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I agree with Martin...not counting 100 students per grade level will skew our numbers.

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FischerStudents need to put analysis of their evidence into their answers

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FischerStudents need to put analysis of their evidence into their answers

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Idea development/explanation of evidence still lacking in most cases.