Using Data for Monitoring and Target Setting : A Practical Guide for Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780415196864 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 100 str.

Raymond Sumner; Ian McCallum

Opis

A practical guide for teachers and school administrative staff that shows how to use spreadsheets to create orderly records of assessment. These can then be used for the sort of statistical analyses which are being demanded from schools. The guide is photocopiable and includes: practical examples; step-by-step instructions on how to optain the data you want; simple advice on how to use Excel; and pictures of the screens used. The text is written to appeal to both the technophobic teacher and the experienced manager.

Spis treści

Part 1: First Steps with Excel Making Sense of Pupil Performance Figures How Can We Describe Performance? How Can We Investigate the Relationship between Sets of Marks? Confidence in Sample Estimates Creating an Expectancy Table Part 2A: Scales and their Interpretation Part 2B: Handling Test Data Appendices

O autorze

Ray Sumner has worked in education for many years, both as a teacher and a researcher. He is the author of The Role of Assessment in Schools., Ian McCallum taught mathematics before going on to work at the London Research Centre, where he analysed a wide variety of educational data.