Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Collecting Data to Drive Instruction:

When it comes to collecting data on what your students have mastered, what is the best resource you have found?  How do you do this at your school?  Do you use an app, software, or an online tool to help you collect data from students?  I am currently looking for a better solution.  I created the following using Excel.  I give students a pretest at the beginning of the 9 weeks and end of the 9 weeks and look at the data.  I would like to do it on a more weekly basis, but I don't feel as if I have time to plan due to keeping up with data or vice versa.  I would love a better solution or is time always going to be an issue as a teacher (which we know it will be).  Your input is greatly appreciated!!  Sorry for the blurry picture below, but it was the best I could post.