As a member of my campus' leadership team I have always been acutely aware of how our students are performing on the Texas high stakes testing as well as on other standardized testing such as the Stanford 10. In this course I had the opportunity to really dig in to the data for my campus and look at our performance trends from year to year and really gain an understanding as to how our students are progressing. My district has recently begun using the INOVA program to facilitate data mining and the tracking of our students so that we can better project how they should fare in the future. It is particularly interesting to me how accurate many of these predictions are for most of our students. We now have three years worth of data in INOVA and the trending is clearly along the lines that the data predicted.
Being able to disaggregated the student performance data for several years gave me an opportunity to focus in on areas of strength and weakness in our student performance. I was able to identify science as one of our areas of weakness and begin developing some intervention plans to address the needs I found. In comparing my analysis of student data with that provided by INOVA I was pleased to see that the INOVA findings confirmed what I had found. I was able to develop some interventions that we put into practice with good results. I worked with my 5th grade science teacher to develop an action plan to address many of the needs that were found. The action plans was successfully implemented with our targeted group of students and may have been a contributing factor in their success on the 2010 TAKS test. As a campus we moved from recognized to exemplary in 2010 and one of our areas of improvement that allowed this to happen was a gain in performance on the science TAKS test.
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