September 30, 2010

Finally! I begin working with data sheets! Shari got me started, and I spent all hour working on the data sheets for the middle school MAPS testing results. I had to create a spreadsheet for all the data to go into, and then copy and paste each middle school kid's range from the originial results sheet into the data sheet I created. This way, we can use the spreadsheet I created to group the middle school students into their flooding groups based on their ranges.

September 29, 2010

Today we finished up testing the kids who had not completed all of thier MAPS test, as well as myself. I had been absent and missed my science test, so I completed that today during my COS. This way, we can finally get all the scores in.

September 28, 2010

Today I helped Shari go through the students who have missing MAPS tests. We had a list of names of students who have not completed all four tests, and started them on the tests that they have missed. This is very crucial because without all four tests completed, it is hard to see where the students fall. We use each and every one of these tests to see what range the student falls in and what they need to work on.

September 21, 2010

Today, Shari allowed to me listen in on a phone call that she made to a family here in Hugo whom homeschool thier children. They are planning to start school next week. She called to see if the kids had any time to come in during the afternoon sometime this week to begin MAPS testing, this way, they do not have to miss as much class when they begin school here. We also looked at middle school test scores and determined the strong and weak points of certain students.

September 20, 2010

Once again, today I worked with test scores. I filed the scores according to range and average, sorted them by groups, and then grouped them together. Then I distributed the score groups out to the teachers according to the range of thier students. Shari informed me that once the teachers get thier scores, they use this information to see the strong and weak points of thier students. This way, they know what to focus strongly on, and what to teach breifly.

September 15, 2010

Today I got to work with the elementary test scores. I got to work with ranging the students, and organzing each test by that range. Then, I printed out the test charts, made copies of each, and distributed one out to each student, depending on their range of students.

September 13, 2010

We finally got MAPS completely downloaded, and started testing again today. So far the tests seem to be going well. Students can pause and restart tests without any results being terminated. The new tests start and close more efficiently. There is now a huge weight lifted off many of our shoulders. Hopefully everyone will finish up MAPS this week, and we can FINALLY start working with data next week.

September 8, 2010

Today Shari was busy downloading MAPS and dealing with some problems concerning that, so I helped Mary Jo look at some data, and we planned out the bulliten board in the elementary hall way. I helped design and plan the layout. Tomorrow we begin working on data from the CSAPS and ACTs. hopefully, we can finally get started working with some data and information!

September 7, 2010

Today Shari and I continued working on downloading MAPS. We worked with Mr. Gaskins on downloading one of the MATH tests and by the end of the class, it was only 25% completed. We are expecting it to take a few more hours to complete. Then we should be caught up!

September 2, 2010

My COS this week as been somewhat slow due to the fact that we are still finishing up on our MAPS testing. We had to REdownload all of the tests due to a malfucnction, and the tests have been put off for a few days. I still haven't taken my science or math test. Alot of time and effort was put into restarting the tests, and we hope that all goes well this time. The downloading process took much longer than expected which also threw us behind even more. This has really taught me how systems can crash, and how we are expected to restart and refresh them as soon as possible!