Teacher scenario

1. Ms. Patton decides that she would like to group her students by proficiency on last year’s EOG, but she is not sure that she would have enough students in each group to make it worthwhile. Since that information has not already been provided to her, her first step should be to:
   1. Get a student by student report from the testing coordinator
   2. Ask each student individually, what his/her proficiency is
   3. Assign proficiencies to each student based on instinct
2. Once she has her proficiencies recorded in a spreadsheet for each student, she should:
   1. Create a pie chart by student to see individual proficiency levels at a glance
   2. Create a bar chart by proficiency levels to see counts of students at each level
   3. Stack the reports on the floor by proficiency to see how big the piles are
3. Once she has the information at a glance, she realizes that there are sufficient numbers of students to group by proficiency for targeted instruction. What is the next step? Answer this question in your journal.

Principal scenario

4. Principal Brown decides that she wants to target professional development to math teachers who have had the lowest performing students over the past three years. The first step she should take is to:
   1. Ask each math teacher to self-assess his or her need for help and to estimate their performance history
   2. Identify teachers based upon single-day observations of classroom instruction
   3. Get detailed report from testing coordinator that shows teachers’ aggregated historical student performance
5. Once she has all of the teachers’ performance in a structured format and has time to crunch the numbers, she should next calculate:
   1. Median performance so as to see how the school as a whole is performing
   2. Minimum and maximum performance to see how wide of a range exists between the lowest and highest performing teachers
   3. Quartile performance to help identify groups of teachers at the top and bottom of the spectrum to pair in a mentorship type relationship
6. What is the next step? Answer this question in your journal.