Monday, July 19, 2010

Student Learning and Data Collection

Our district uses an online data warehouse, called EduGence, to collect information on student performance. Edugence records all information on a student throughout the school year. Every time a student takes a curriculum assessment, it is scanned into the system by each campus. A teacher then has the ability to view all answers correct or incorrect that the student answered on the particular assessment. It is also very beneficial for the teacher to see the class results as a whole to view if there was a particular question that the majority of the class missed. Then the teacher can guide instruction to ensure mastery of the specific skill. Edugence also receives TAKS scores for each students as soon as they are released to the district. ITBS, TELPAS, and other benchmark scores are also recorded within the program.

Using Edugence to collect information on students is very useful at the beginning of the school year especially. A teacher is able to pull up the profile of each student in their class and see their performance in each subject from the following years. This can provide immediate information that helps guide grouping and instruction from day one of the school year.

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