Victoria Winn

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17 July 2016
Task Six: Using Assessment Data to Inform Teaching Practice
1. Are there any students that you are concerned about?
After looking at the data I was provided with, I have some about certain students. In
order to determine which students I was concerned about, I looked at the total section
on the chart. If a student fell below a 75%, I considered them to be below level and low
achievers. If a student was above a 90%, I considered them to be above level and high
achievers. The student that falls below level is Goyle, and I am slightly concerned about
Pansy because she is right below the on level mark (75%). The students that are
considered above level are Cho and Draco.
I am concerned about Goyle and Pansy because they fall below an average of 75%. I
am very concerned about Goyle because after looking at all of the assignments he has
completed, he has scored an average of 45%. Out of the 11 assignments on the data
chart, Goyle has scored a 50% or lower on more than half of the assignments. He has
even scored a 0% on three of the assignments he was given. Since Goyle is doing so
poorly on assignments I think that he would benefit from being pulled for small group or
one-on-one sessions. It is apparent from his grades that something is not clicking. I
would like to pull him for group as soon as possible. Hopefully Goyle will benefit from
this and we will be able to find what he is struggling with so he can be more successful
in the future. When working in small group with Goyle, I would like to focus on reteaching graphs and using survey data to create graphs because these are the
assignments that he scored a between a 0% and 30%. I am also slightly concerned
about Pansy because she has scored an average of 72% on the assignments. I

considered a 75% to be on grade level and Pansy is only 3% away. After looking at the
individual assignments, I noticed that that Pansy was scoring between a 50% and 60%
on assignments related to collecting and graphing data. I think that Pansy would benefit
from being put into a small group with Goyle since he is also struggling with graphing.
I am concerned about Draco and Cho because they both have an average of above a
90% on all of the assignments. I am concerned that both of these students are not being
challenged enough during class time and on assignments. Both Draco and Cho score
between a 90% and 100% on almost all of the assignments they were given. In order to
challenge both of these students more, I would like to pull them for small group
enrichment. In this small group, they will be presented with real life problems or
scenarios and will be asked to solve them. They would be taking what they are currently
learning in class and taking it to another level. This would provide them with the
challenge they need and will help them stay interested in what they are learning.
2. Are there any assignments that you are concerned about?
I am not concerned about any assignments being too easy for students, but I am
concerned about some assignments being too difficult for students. When determining
which assignments I was concerned about, I found the average for each assignment. I
am concerned about any assignment that has an average less that 75%. These
assignments include; vocabulary quiz, graphing worksheet, classwork on plotting data,
choosing the right plots quiz, and the review game. I think that these assignments were
too difficult for the students and should be modified or removed. On the vocabulary quiz,
the average score was a 72%. I do not think that this quiz should be removed, but
instead should be used to see if there are common vocabulary words that all students

are struggling with. For the graphing worksheet, the average was a 68%. I would
consider removing this assignment or modifying it so the students are only working on
one type of graph instead of four types of graphs at once. For the classwork on plotting
data from a previous homework assignment, the average was a 68%. I would consider
removing this because I do not think that the students are ready to work with their own
data collection yet, since they do not have a solid understanding of graphing (evidence
seen on graphing worksheet). For the quiz on choosing the right plots, the average was
a 64%. I would remove this quiz entirely because it is obvious from previous
assignments that the students do not have a solid understanding of graphing yet and
therefore should not be assessed. For the review game, there was an average score of
a 70%. I would not remove this assignment, but instead considered revisiting it once the
students understand graphs better.
3. How will you change your instruction based on this data?
After analyzing the assignments from the previous section, I would re-teach graphs
because these were the assignments that had an average of 72% or lower. The
students were learning about line plots, dot plots, histograms, and boxplots and were
given an assignment on all of these graphs at once. I would re-teach graphs, but
instead teach them one at a time rather than grouping them together. Students would be
taught about one graph and then given an assignment on that type of graph before
moving on. If the assignment showed me that the students had a solid understanding of
the graph they just learned about, then I would move on to the next type of graph. I think
that re-teaching graphs this way would help the students score higher on the plotting
quiz and the review game.

I would still pull small group for the students (Goyle and Pansy) that really struggled
with graphing in order to ensure they have a solid understanding. I would also still pull
small group enrichment to ensure that the students (Draco and Cho) that were excelling
are being challenged.
I do not think that there are any particular assignments that the group picked up on as
a whole because the average of the assignments that everyone did well on fell between
an 80% and 86%. If the average were higher than a 90% then I would provide more
challenging assignments and activities for the students to complete.