Before you decide what it means. If your sentence has the word because, it is not a notice yet.
Before you decide what it means. If your sentence has the word because, it is not a notice yet.
Read three levels. Class: three bands, thirty seconds. Items: which broke, most of your time. Students: who, and which wrong answer.
She chose the Focused IAB Build Fractions from Unit Fractions (4.NF.B): 8 items, 1 hand-scored. Before giving it, she read every wrong answer on item 2.
1 Name the fraction shown 70-85% 79%
2 Add, same denominator 60-75% 42%
4 Compare unit fractions 55-70% 33%
8 Multi-step word problem 50-65% 38%
Her biggest misses were the two items about what a fraction means. Then she went past the bands: Students 09, 11 and 18 share one band and need three different things.
TRY IT IN 10 MINUTES
Put your prediction next to your results.
Thirty seconds on the bands. Then the item view.
Write three notices with the stems. No causes.
Start with the strongest. How many items back it?
Turn it in to a claim.
Frames and Templates
___% chose ___ on item ___.
Items ___ and ___ were connected.
Students who missed ___ also missed ___.
The results I did not expect was ___.
Claim: ___
Evidence: ___
How sure: high, medium, low
What would change my mind: ___
COMMON TRAPS
Stopping at the bands
One band can hold three very different students.
A cause in a notice
Write the why on a separate note for Diagnose.
One item as a pattern
One item is a clue. Two with the same mistake is a pattern.
Small numbers
In a class of 24, one studetns moves a result about 4 points.
The report cannot tell you why, whether it was taught, or anything about absent students. Those are Diagnose questions.
CERS: CA Educator Reporting System
Log in with CAASPP credentials to view class and student results; drill into item-level detail.
Real reports, fictitious students, no login required.
What the reports mean.