Accessing+the+Data

On this page, the process for examining my eMetric data and determining my need area is listed.

The Process: 1. Look at the eMetric scores in your grade over a period of years, and find a standard that you teach that students are traditionally low in. 2. Create a pretest in Achievement series finding questions built on that standard. 3. Administer that as a pretest, and then duplicate that test and administer formatively throughout the lesson plan to see if students are increasing their achievement level on that standard. 4. Infuse two tech/21st century skills lesson plans with that unit. 5. Duplicate the achievement series test again to use as a posttest. 6. Finally when eMetric data is available for the year, we gather the data and compare last year’s eMetric scores to the grant year’s eMetric scores to see if there was an improvement.  My reflection: I looked at the eMetric scores for Garfield for 2008-2009. [|eMetric] I had to get my user name and password from my building administrator. Examining my scores from the year before was exciting. Yes, I know I am a dork! I was able to see previous years information as well. That way I could see what I taught well and what I need to improve on. I really thought the students would be low in a different area.This year I'm focusing on life science due to lower scores.

The 2008 science test scores indicate that __Standard:__ was the one lowest in my class. I will focus my lesson plans specifically on this standard.
 * 5.P.2.2 **Students are able to **analyze** the structure and design of __simple and compound machines__ to **determine** how the machines make work easier by trading __force__ for distance