Sharepoint, weekly scores, coding in examview

I'm on the wrong computer to be blogging, but that's gonna have to work. On the other computer, I have MacroPro updating the coding on a bunch of Examview questions.

Part 1 overview - I hope, within the scope of today's blog, to make it clear how the coding can help me figure out what kids know and don't know. And I'll also critique how the codes let me down in a few cases. And I may vent about a shortcoming of Examview that I'm begging them to fix. So, some cool stuff, some mistakes on my part, some wishful thinking about how a product could be improved.

Part 2 overview - I'll post some info about how I can compile Sharepoint/Examview data to measure weekly visitation and progress on skills-based tests. The blog is already helping me here, in that I have thought about how to get weekly data so that I can see how the kid does from week to week and in comparison to the pretest. Now my problem is that I don't know how to crunch the numbers. So, a step forward and a problem.

Part 1 - As Examview is superlative for objective assessments, my most frequent applications are for quizzes on vocabulary, grammar skills, and class notes. I like to give a quiz each week that measures performance on new skills and knowledge and retention of what we have learned in the past. Since Examview banks let me store lots of questions, I can generate tests easily and create tests from a combined set of banks. Each Friday I give the students one of these combined tests and use the results to figure out what we've learned, what we've still got to work on, and how quickly I should move forward or tread a little water. Obviously, if I just got the overall results on such a unified quiz then I wouldn't know much more than overall success (they're doing pretty well vs. they are doing great on vocabulary, good on notes, and poorly on grammar - with a particularly disappointing grade in pronoun usage). So, for each examview question I add information in these little boxes for learning objective, national, state, and local standards because those are the data tags that I can run reports from. So I'm going to switch computers and continue this on the next entry b/c I can add screen shots to clarify and give examples.