Assessment Data with a FREEBIE from Dianna [Sassy, Savvy, Simple Teaching]

Most of us are currently wrapping up the first quarter of school or have already done so! Whoa, did it just fly by for me! My life has been a HUGE whirlwind over the past few months, full of changes, but I'm happy to be back here today with my Elementary Entourage family and our readers! 

So, I have made a change in the assessment data I currently keep... I'm now back in the classroom in 5th Grade! I teach ELA to 50 lovely kiddos and feel so blessed to have had this opportunity at our neighborhood school that my child attends! 

Anyhow, I've really had to get my data binder for 50 organized!!!!!!!!!!! What a task!!!!!!!!!! Changing my mindset from a Literacy Coach looking at school and grade level data to now looking at individual student data according to my personal instruction. Especially being in a new state [well, returning] that is slightly different than my previous state. But, the bottomline is no matter where you are, tracking data is essential to your instruction.

So here's what is currently in my Data Binder!

ELA Data Sheet:

I created this data sheet to help me get the "whole child" picture and to see the data progression throughout the school year.

This data sheet tracks the past two previous grades in the categories of: State Assessments, Reading Level, Reading Grade, FAIR, Writing Grade, RTI, etc... Those categories continue for this school year along with MobyMax. 

FREE:

I created this in an editable document for FREE for everyone to use and adjust to your personal needs!
[Click below on any of the photos for direct links!]

Standard Data Sheets:

The next thing I use is my Standard Data Sheets from my Grade Level Data Binder Products. These data sheets allow me to specifically focus on standards, which is my Core Tier 1 Instruction for all students. You can use these sheets in a variety of ways. I use them to look at mastery, assessment, etc... This also transfers into the small group instruction I use. I meet with groups on their instructional reading levels along with groups who need remediation in specific standards, skills and strategies.

As a Literacy Coach, I created this versatile Data Sheet for K-5! I am currently now using it myself.

Reading Level Growth Tracker:
I also track reading levels in my data binder. I use this Reading Level Growth Tracker for individual students and to look at my entire class. This helps me look at my class as a whole and my students individually when it comes to independent reading levels.

This form I use for each student to graph their progress throughout the school year:

These 2 forms I use to see my class as a whole:

These 2 forms I use after I track my data to help plan my small group instruction:

I hope you find this post useful in some way, shape or form! As assessments continue to change in schools some things will always remain the same... Core Instruction [our standards] and reading levels!

Assessment w/Tickled Pink in Primary

Do you dread report card time? It can be very time consuming to pull each student back and give assessments. I have an assessment system that I use that I find helpful in organizing student work and checking their progress. 

A few years ago, our district implemented data dashboards. We have to have a bulletin board graphing the progress of the class as a whole on certain skills. I decided to also create individualized folders for students to track their own data as well.

Instead of pulling students back all at once in October for report cards, I work with students individually periodically to see how they are progressing. Sometimes I work with them at center time so they don't even know I'm assessing them! One thing I love, is having all of a child’s assessment data in 1 spot! This makes it very easy if a parent or administrator has a question about how a kid is doing. I can also have my aide or parent volunteer take the folder to see what skills that particular students needs to work on.

For the cover of the folders, I use full sheet labels that I got a Office Depot. I also found them on Amazon below. Of course, you can just glue them on too. I have a variety of covers, so you can customize a folder to your student’s skin color and hair color. :)

I have tracking sheets included in the folder for things such as letters, beginning sounds, sight words, and numbers. My Kindergarten Assessment & Data Folders set includes some flashcards as well to use with these tracking sheets.

I use different colors of pens and crayons to graph the results and show how students are progressing.

I think it is very important to let the students color in the graph. This helps them take ownership and pride in their work and progress.

The folder contains very basic Kindergarten skills and doesn’t include every single thing I need for report card time, but these are the basic skills I felt that I needed to test verbally. I can use other worksheets to test number sense, math facts, etc. therefore I didn’t include that in the folder.

The Dolch Primer sight words are the list I used for this file since it is a common list. However, since we all don’t teach the same sight words, I created an editable file so you can edit the sight word tracking sheet and the sight word flashcards.

I’m sure you have your own set of assessment sheets for report card time, but hopefully giving you the idea of creating individualized folders will help save you time by having everything for each kid all in 1 place. If you're interested in my Data Dashboard folders, you can find them here. Do you have any tips/tricks for assessment time?

On Track and On Target { with Mrs. D's Corner }

One thing I really like about the Elementary Entourage is how diverse we are when it comes to what we teach. I was so excited to find out that this month I get to talk to you all about how I track data and set student goals, and even more excited that I would get to read about different ways to track data too!

Being a teacher of students with special needs, I feel like I'm really good at tracking data because I'm constantly assessing IEP goal and objective progress. On a weekly and daily basis, I take data in 4 different ways.

One of my most important data collection sheets is my weekly progress monitoring page. This is where I write down activities the students completed each day of the week and how well they did. For example, on Monday we will be talking about the pumpkin life cycle. We will do a matching activity to different parts of the life cycle... so I will write that the student maybe got 4 of 6 parts correct.

I also use this sheet to keep track of daily IEP goal and objective progress. At the beginning of the school year, someone praised me for my use of sticky notes to keep track of data. What she said has really stuck with me, but I find sticky notes SO easy! If you were to take a look at the back on one of my weekly sheets, you'd probably find at least 6 sticky notes on the back with data collection.

Lastly, on the bottom of each daily square is a set of emotion faces. This is something I recently started keeping track of is a student's daily behavior. Every day I send home daily behavior sheets to parents to let them know how their child did at school. This is a way for me to keep track of how a student did on a daily and weekly basis just incase I ever need to look back on daily behavior.

Another weekly sheet I use is this grading sheet. Let me preface this by saying I hate doing grades. For my friends who are not on grade level, I feel like it is stupid of me to keep track of grades of how they're performing on a modified grade level curriculum. Hello, they always do well! I think that IEP progress reports are a much better indicator of how well my students are doing.

Anyway, I have to take grades on 2 things in each subject each week. This sheet helps me keep track of grades, that way when I put grades in the Friday before they're due... I can use this little cheat sheet as a quick reference and spend as little time on grades as possible.

This is a new daily data collection sheet I started using this school year. In the middle of last school year, I lost one of my two paraprofessionals and the district won't hire another one for my class due to numbers, not the actual need in my classroom.

So to build my case as to why I need another paraprofessional in my classroom, I have been keeping very detailed data on prompting. This includes prompting outside of any verbal and physical prompting a student needs that is directly related to the lesson / activity.

For example:
- "____ sit down."
- "____ keep your hands to yourself."
- "____ look at your work and focus on you."

Here's to hoping it works and gets me another paraprofessional eventually :)

Back in July, I wrote a blog post all about how I will be using my FREE easy progress monitoring binder rings in my classroom this year. So far this school year, I am still in love with the easiest and quickest way I have ever used to track IEP goal and objective data.

I use these binder rings directly with the weekly progress monitoring sheet. At the end of every week, I go back and add the data to a student's binder ring that appropriately correlates with their IEP goals / objectives. If I need more data on a certain goal / objective, I make it a point to work on that skill the following week.

When the 9-week marking period ends, I need to send home progress updates on each and every IEP goal / objective. You'd think this would be a daunting task, but with these binder rings, it literally takes hours off of the time it takes me to input data. Hours?! YES, HOURS! When it's time to input data, I just grab a binder ring, flip through each goal and type in the 3-4 data points I've collected. Add a few personal notes to each objective, such as a strength with the objective or that we will continue monitoring it until the student is independent.

{ GRAB *FREE* PROGRESS MONITORING MADE QUICK & EASY HERE }

Until next time,