John Jack Duva

TLED 430

Professor Rippard

4/20/20

Accessing the Data

After review the data I was given today by placing the information into the program

Microsoft Excel I have significantly increased my knowledge on how interoperate data to

develop a better understanding of how my students are performing in class, both singularly, as

well as individually.

I have found that despite having some good scores from some of my students the class

average is sadly set in the high 60’s. This tells me that both the students and I need to change

some things. It may be the method of instruction that some students may not be understanding,

perhaps we are going too fast, or the students may not be spending enough time studying because

what we are doing know is not working.

I would like to talk about some students individually; the first of which is Juan. Juan has

been a gem thus far and has been doing extraordinarily. He was the only student to receive a

perfect score of the test, and I am very proud. He is a regular Hermione Granger. I only wish that

all my students performed this well. I student that I feel could have done much better was

Hannah. I noticed that Hannah did perfectly on her subtraction portion of the test; however she

only managed to score 60% of the questions correctly on the addition sections of the test. I feel

that if we had spent a little bit longer on the addition she would have been able to perform a little
better on the whole test. The final student I would like to discus is Luke. Unfortunately Luke

performed the worst out of the entire class only scoring a 40% on his test. This number while sad

to see is very valuable to me. This shows us that something is definitely NOT working. I will

have to find some time to talk to Luke so we can discus some things. We need to ensure that this

number does not appear again.

One of the most valuable piece of information that this Excel sheet has showed me is that

I can see which students are struggling in particular areas of study. For example Molly did

extraordinarily well in the addition portion of the test scoring 80% of them correctly, however

she barley passed do too her subtraction sections scores. I will inform her of this and suggest to

her that she needs to spend a little bit more time studying her subtraction. Patrick is another

student who seemed to perform well on all parts of the test except subtraction. This informs me

that the students may not be the only ones who are not spending enough time on subtraction. I

think this keeps occurring because I have not affectively taught this subject effectively to my

students. I think it would be best to go back and revive subtraction with the whole class. The

final student I would like to discuss is once again Luke. When I first saw that he was not

performing well I wanted to see if there was one particular portion of the test that caused his

grade to be so low, but unfortunately I found that he only scored 40% right on each chapter. This

means that Luke needs to review everything, not just one particular section.