Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Reaction to Spreadsheet

Although I was initially intimidated by this assignment, I found the Google spreadsheet very user-friendly and practical. It helped me to efficiently organize student data and analyze the means and standard deviations, as well as filter out information. This process would have taken me hours with just paper and pencil techniques.

I found that when I filtered out student scores that were above the overall mean, the mean of the remaining students’ combined scores (that were below the class mean) were continually improving. As a teacher, I would interpret this to signify that my struggling students are performing better throughout the term and, therefore, learning more.

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