A powerful tool - I did not have to ask anyone to respond. The students who were going on Blackboard noticed the survey in the Announcements and filled it out! Great for feedback, judging comfort levels and opinions on the class. This tool has a lot of potential for such feedback and making adjustments to focus on specific areas and also to deal with non-educational issues affecting students.
Rubric using Rubistar.
The lesson I used the rubric for is a two/three person team putting together a geometric proof on a whiteboard, such that they can show it to other students and explain their proof. (Different groups have different proofs.) This proof session was done with limited reliance on me to help them. The rubric helps me focus on the items I wish to measure (even after the countless questions and interruptions that occur) and a reminder to check on everything. It is also a tangible record of the work that the student achieved and the level at which they are working.
The rubric:
Data Tools.
We (Catholic Central HS) are heavy users of Infinite Campus. The program houses transcripts, medical and learning alerts for the teachers, schedules, personal and demographic information and grades. Parents and students have online access to grades. Teachers can send blanket e-mails to students and parents. Before school starts, I go through all of my students' profiles and look for pertinent medical and learning process items that might have an effect on student performance. Students are flagged, a very brief notation of a condition or preference is noted - you follow up by going to the guidance counsellors' office.
While we have reviewed and analyzed the MEAP data in the past, the Catholic Secondary Schools are opting to not participate in the testing this year - so that option is disappearing.
However, we do use many common assessments, we analyze test data for specific feedback and are increasingly looking at alternative assessments to gauge learning in our students.
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