What is Data Literacy?
What happens after students are assessed or assignments have been completed? What do you do with all the data collected? How do you as a teacher interpret that data? Data Literacy is learning how to use the information that was collected and analyze it in order to power quality instruction for students. It is important to "empower teachers with data and the skills to use them to improve instruction increases their ability to meet policy and personal goals of ensuring that students are engaged in learning and on track for college and careers. Without necessary data use skills, teachers do not have a powerful tool to make the best decisions to improve student achievement." (DQC, 2014) As teachers we compile a lot of student data and it is important that we understand what to do with that information or else what would be the point of collecting it?
DQC. (February 2014). Teacher data literacy: It's about time. Retrieved from http://dataqualitycampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DQC-Data-Literacy-Brief.pdf
DQC. (February 2014). Teacher data literacy: It's about time. Retrieved from http://dataqualitycampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DQC-Data-Literacy-Brief.pdf
Revisiting assessment tools and how each tool organizes and analyzes data.
I-ReadyFor Teacher
There are several ways that i-Ready complies student data that are helpful for teacher use. Here are a few of the ones that I use all of which can be found under the very convenient tab labeled Reports: Whole Class - Instructional Grouping Profile which gives you a sense of how to group your students once the diagnostic test has been administered. This report if helpful to glance at while grouping, but I use it as a reference along with other data collected to ensure that students are grouped properly. After all they may have a bad test day and these groupings are based on one test.
-Student Growth which will show at a glance how students did on the diagnostic test and their progress towards standards. I give the test in the beginning, middle, and end of the school year to keep track of student progression and I can view all three test here for every student.
-Class Response to Instrution which collects data on how well students are doing on growth lesson (lesson given by i-Ready at there level) and on extra lessons (lessons given by the teacher that may correlate to lessons covered in class). -Student Performance is also a handy one to use because it keeps track of students performance from the previous year so that you can seen the difference in grade levels.
Individual Students
-CA CCSS Performance (California Common Core State Standards) gives a report on which standards have been mastered, are in progress, or have not been mastered. This is awesome especially at report card time when you are trying to explain the standards to parents. You can set it for just your grade level or do what I like to do and set it across grade level to show which one in previous grades they have still yet to master and why we are still working on that skill set in their current grade. -Batch Student Profile Overview shows what level students are at in each overall standard category. The word Batch means instead of printing out a student at a time it will print out the whole class, but broken up as individual page breaks. Again this is convenient for parent conferences or to print out for the students to show where they are at. For Students
What students can view: Students can see what their percentage is after they have completed an assignment. Student can also view their progress under the Progress tab and they can see the percentage of assignments in the order of what they have completed and there is a graph that shows their progression over time. |
KahootFor Students
They get instant feedback on how well they are doing and so are they are becoming aware of their strengths and ares in need of improvement are. For Teachers When students are done playing/ taking the quiz the data is collected and the teacher can then "view all of your results" which is a button found under the teacher site where you can also create new quizzes. From there you can download the results onto the computer or you can send it to your Google Drive account. If you send it to the Drive it will show you the data in Google Sheets and breaks it down into percentages for the whole class. Here is an example of what you might see:
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Google ClassroomFor Teachers
It is a great tool to organize online assignments for students. Teachers can create topics and then under those designation they can add assignments, post questions, or create announcements to students. Not only is it a great tool to organize and collect data on students, but it also can function as a way to help analyze the data collected. Teachers can add grades to assignments and then they can transfer the data into a format that they could use for their grade-book.
For Students Google Classroom is effective at keeping assignments organized for students. Students can find assignments quickly by looking at it by topics. Once the assignment is found the students can see when the due date is or if the assignment is late. Students are able to submit and unsubmit assignments when needed. The unsubmit function is extremely helpful to students because after looking at comments they have the opportunity to go back and fix work. Students are able to see what grade they got on tasks as well. This tech tool falls under the category of LMS. What is LMS?Learning Management Systems are online platforms that "help the instructor deliver material to the students, administer tests and other assignments, track student progress, and manage record-keeping." (Wikipedia, 2017)
Learning management system. (2017, November 16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:24, December 6, 2017, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Learning_management_system&oldid=810647766 |
New Resources incorporating Data Literacy
Moodle
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Quizlet
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Schoology
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