Happy Friday!

I am completely guilty of procratinating and promise to stop in exactly seven minutes. So in that time here's the update, I looked over Examview's reports again and think that some combination of keyword, state standard and learning focus might be enough to run some fairly intelligent reports. The output is largely based on proficiency and you can change proficiency targets. As far as I can tell, you could run a single assignment proficiency report or a proficiency report across a range or even semester. But you could not mechanize a comparison between a proficiency report at one time and another. Hmmmm. That sounds too complicated; let's start over.

You can run Learning Focus and Performance summary reports on Learning Objectives, Nat,State, and local standards.
You can run Item Remediation Reports on Learning Objectives, Keywords, and State Standards. However, Item Remediation does not include local or state standards. But Item Remediation is the only report that ties a single test item to multiple standards, and so the only way to cross-reference a single item.

Be right back. Talked to David A. about options for a second classroom, including compromising the tablets, recycling furniture, and even (desperate measure) using the tablet labs that are dying from lack of use in Social Studies and Math. I think if we make it clear that we're going to carry out this program, we'll get more support. Dave is always a supporter. Should have showed him the Reading lab lesson he said - scan to OCR page, kids ink on that to demo glossing, show on the overhead, print to .pdf, post on sharepoint and voila - you've got the class-made model of glossing online that same day. Anyway, I told him about it and he said - let me know when you're doing these things. ok ok...

Back to Examview - it's been more than seven minutes - any %improvement could be tracked if I'm more specific in tagging. It seems that the tags on difficulty, reference, topic, misc, notes might only be useful for building tests because they never come up in the reports. But if I tagged L.O. and state standards well I could improve remediation reports. If I tagged L.O., state, local, and national standards better, I could look at category and subcategory performance. However, the only way to measure across assignments (I think) would be to manually type them into excel, right? Well, I could export the cps to .csv. Can I export an examview assignment to CPS? It seems to have a better way of analyzing student performance on a standard, though only the state standard is indexed. I think. I was supposed to cover something else here, but I can't remember what it was...