B.S. Elementary Education
M.S.Ed. Instructional Technology
Ed.D. Instructional Technology & Leadership
4.b. : Collaborate to establish metrics, collect and analyze data, interpret results, and share findings to improve staff performance and student learning.
Artifact:
Description:
For this standard, I chose to pull some of the surveys that I have
conducted with teachers, students, and my fellow cohort members.
Four of the surveys included were created in Google Forms and the final
one was created using Qualtrics.
The first two surveys relate to Seneca Valley’s district-wide Olweus bullying prevention program for the 2017-2018 school year. The first one I created was sent to all of the professional staff members in grades K-4 (approximately 200 teachers), and the second survey was to evaluate how the staff felt that the 7 Habits of Healthy Kids was impacting the students in my building.
As part of my Student Learning Objective (SLO) each year, I use Google Forms as a way to quickly assess my third-grade students. I have included the assessment that I used during both the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.
Finally, the Qualtrics assessment was created as part of a course requirement for GDIT 719: Learner Computer Interaction with Dr. Misook Heo in spring 2018. As part of our class facilitation, we were required to create an assessment using Qualtrics that included branching logic for one of the main question items. We shared our assessments with our peers and then used the results to inform the instruction of the associated book chapters in our presentation.
Reflection:
I was first introduced to Google Forms during my Master’s program in the course GILT 518. We had to create surveys using both Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. This course introduced me to all of the different question types that Google offered which has greatly benefitted me as I’ve created surveys and assessments.
All of the above surveys and assessments have helped, in one way or another, to improve staff performance or student learning. The first two surveys that I created were used by the Olweus Anti-Bullying committee within the Seneca Valley School District. The data collected from these surveys helped to inform committee members on how the program was working in each of the district’s four elementary schools using both rating questions and short answer responses.
I have used the student keyboard commands assessment for the past two years. Because the SLO process requires pre- and post-test data, I have the students take the assessment both before and after three weeks of direct instruction on keyboard commands and instruction in Office 365. During the 2017-2018 school year, I received the rating of “distinguished” in my evaluation due to my performance teaching. More specifically, 95.7% of my students scored at or above the intended objective. Ten students scored 6/8, 29 scored 7/8, and 51 scored 8/8. In looking at each of the students’ individual scores, 100% of students showed improvement from the pre-test to the post-test.
Qualtrics was brand new to me when I learned about it during GDIT 719. Before this course, I had never created branching questions in a survey. Though I had some experience with answering branching questions in the past, it was more difficult than I expected to incorporate them into my pre-assessment. Like I mentioned above, I used my classmates’ responses and scores to guide the direction that I went with my presentation. I made sure to focus on areas where people struggled a little bit more, and was able to move more quickly through areas where there was a greater level of understanding.
