Performance Tracker
When I was young, every Sunday my father would pack the car with the whole family and we drove to no where in particular. Trying to improve student performance with out a clear picture of where you are going, is like those Sunday drives...you have no idea of where you are going. More importantly, without a clear sense of where you are going it's easy to lose your way.
There is a desire to change the way we use data to increase student achievement. But how can we easily access the data and analyze it to make changes in the classroom? That would require giving teachers access to the data and working with them to make specific changes in the curriculum withour goal (clear picture) in mind.
Envision a district where teachers and administrators can easily access all the data {which is defined as classroom, curriculum, local (benchmark), state, and national} to pin point what performance indicators students are struggling with. Goals for improving student performance can be set. Teachers can quickly determine where that performance indicator was taught and the frequency with which it was taught. Sometimes a simple adjustment in the months that students review it is enough to fix the problem. And sometimes teachers can make quick changes in instruction to reteach those performance indicators and give a quick, formative assessment to determine if it was mastered. Other times, teachers need to realign when it was taught with other teachers at, above, and below grade level for students to have the continuity of instruction.
Performance Tracker is the tool for teachers and administrators to quickly pull reports and analyze the potential cause(s) for the poor performance. Teachers can put up item analysis reports to see potential problems with specific questions their students struggle with. Administrators can pull up comparative reports over several years to find trouble areas which is needed to set goals. Both teachers and administrators can create focus groups to monitor the performance of specific students or student groups.
Performance Tracker:
When I was young, every Sunday my father would pack the car with the whole family and we drove to no where in particular. Trying to improve student performance with out a clear picture of where you are going, is like those Sunday drives...you have no idea of where you are going. More importantly, without a clear sense of where you are going it's easy to lose your way.
There is a desire to change the way we use data to increase student achievement. But how can we easily access the data and analyze it to make changes in the classroom? That would require giving teachers access to the data and working with them to make specific changes in the curriculum withour goal (clear picture) in mind.
Envision a district where teachers and administrators can easily access all the data {which is defined as classroom, curriculum, local (benchmark), state, and national} to pin point what performance indicators students are struggling with. Goals for improving student performance can be set. Teachers can quickly determine where that performance indicator was taught and the frequency with which it was taught. Sometimes a simple adjustment in the months that students review it is enough to fix the problem. And sometimes teachers can make quick changes in instruction to reteach those performance indicators and give a quick, formative assessment to determine if it was mastered. Other times, teachers need to realign when it was taught with other teachers at, above, and below grade level for students to have the continuity of instruction.
Performance Tracker is the tool for teachers and administrators to quickly pull reports and analyze the potential cause(s) for the poor performance. Teachers can put up item analysis reports to see potential problems with specific questions their students struggle with. Administrators can pull up comparative reports over several years to find trouble areas which is needed to set goals. Both teachers and administrators can create focus groups to monitor the performance of specific students or student groups.
Performance Tracker:
- tracks standards-based performance
- aggregates or disaggregates all assessment data (National, State, and Local)
- easy to access and interpret reports
- point and click reporting (no query writing and no exporting to Excel)
- can drill down to student portfolio from every report (easily drill from broad to specific)
