This was a fascinating process in which I learned how to look more closely at data and how to use it in a google docs spreadsheet.
It was very helpful to break out the raw data of the students who were struggling and to see how they made progress over the course of the last 5 tests.
All of the students made great progress - especially in the last test. I might review my teaching in the areas where a few of them fell behind,but celebrate that they improved!
I feel far more comfortable now with using spreadsheets through this exercise and I am certain I will have many opportunities to use it in the classroom. I plan to work in Special Education and there will be a lot of data to analyze and these tools will be extremely helpful.
I have embedded the three sheets I used in the study and the chart. It may be too wide or long to see,so I am also including this link.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Aue2qQHCLeQKdDU5LUNBclVrbGwxdzdmLTFNQ05rWVE&hl=en
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Progressive data tables look terrific, as does the chart and analyzing the trends. The large chart will fit nicely into a full sized web page or 'fluid' blog, but that is a limitation of the Google Sheets to resize at this point in time. Job well done!
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