A whole week passes...

It's been a week without much Sharepoint, and a week with improved Quia. I'm not sure where to begin...

First, I guess I should sing the pros of Workspace MacroPro. Without it, I never would have transferred so much question data from Examview to Quia so quickly. But I could and did, and so now I have a ton more material available for practice on quia. And it's easy to make stuff a bit more targeted.

In fact, I can also track their completion of assigned quizzes and activities. SO, in terms of interventions, I can look at quiz grades this friday, note weaknesses, assign quizzes and activities, track to see if they were completed, and look for improvement (or lack thereof) from this week to next in a particular area. Which is good for a kid who is off in one area, but also for somebody who is suffering across the board - it shows whether or not a focused intervention will make any difference at all and gives us a plan to chip away at problems a piece at a time.

I'm not very focused today. I think there's something I'm supposed to be doing to prepare for next week. I'll share the reports as they come out. I'm excited to have another set of information (time using quia, quia practice quiz scores) but since the practice quizzes can be targeted to a learning objective, it seems like I could make experiments with a lot of variables, which means even more work in tracking the relationships between quizzes and practice. Also - a problem, I admit - by posting quia in a window on sharepoint, I can't quite figure how to differentiate between sharepoint stats for practice and quia stats for practice (i.e. - kids using quia will inflate the sharepoint numbers). Oh well. I'll see how it works.

I'll get back soon. Hmmmmm... any other big interests? nothing i can think of.