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Exam Analysis PD sample

Analysis by District Public www.district-public.com

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Contact us for more information:

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Agenda / Session goals:

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  • Understand District Public’s exam analysis.
  • Be able to use the report to identify potential focus areas for improvement.
  • Be able to use the report to select specific exam items to study more closely.
  • Identify skills and concepts needed to answer a specific item.
  • Next steps: Select a focus area for your teachers and a plan for improvement.

This is a single-session PD where a District Public facilitator will walk your staff through our analysis of one or more of your exams (e.g. Regents, Gr. 3-8 state exam, mock exam) and facilitate the development of concrete “next steps”.

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Our analysis combines two complementary perspectives

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What students need to know (most tested)

Where students struggled

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Where to focus

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Question lists: performance on each test question

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Look at these pages in your exam packet. What are your noticings/wonderings?

  • What clarifying questions do you have?
  • What jumps out from these pages?

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English Question 12

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What do students need to know / do to answer this question successfully?

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How are these skills addressed in the curriculum/ your classroom?

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Link to January ‘24 English Regents

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Algebra 1 Question 3

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What do students need to know / do to answer this question successfully?

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How are these skills addressed in the curriculum/ your classroom?

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Link to June ‘23 Algebra Regents

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Review your packets and discuss the following questions:

Page 1: On which sections of the test do your students succeed, and on which sections do they struggle?

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Page 2: Which standards are most heavily tested? How did your students do on those standards?

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Page 3: Which subgroups of students are struggling?

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Page 5: Which MC questions were most challenging? (Look at comparison to city averages). What does this question require students to know/do?

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Page 5: Which CR questions were most challenging? Which questions/types of questions resulted in large % of students earning a “0”? What does this question require students to know/do?

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