Michelle Gainer has been working with schools, principals and district administrators for more than 10 years helping them to understand and analyze data and implement key strategies to increase student achievement. With 15 years of classroom teaching experience in mathematics and the author of four elementary and secondary mathematics textbooks Michelle provides particular expertise in the analysis of student data and mathematics instruction. Michelle has National Board Certification in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Mathematics.
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Spring Break Time
By mgainer - March 27th, 2009
Spring Break is a wonderful time of the year. You've completed at least three-fourths of your school year and are heading into the last stretch. This final break should get you through! Do you have at least three years worth of data for each of the school grade cells? If so, what is the format that you have that data in?
You can put your data in Excel and make a trend graph of the data. I prefer line graphs for trends but some prefer bar graphs. Bar graphs are great for comparisons. You could use a bar graph to show the difference between grade level contributions to a cell. If you have SnapShot, there are grade level trends for the areas of proficiency and learning gains. Simply click the Reports link and choose Trend Reports. Have a nice break!
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