Analyzing Data

Demonstration of Proficiency
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following competency and assignment scoring guide criteria:

Competency: Analyze student data to identify and address educational problems.

Analyze qualitative and quantitative data and triangulate data to pinpoint areas of strength and deficiency.
Identify strengths and deficiencies in overall class performance as supported through both quantitative and qualitative data.
Identify strengths and deficiencies in individual student performance as supported through both quantitative and qualitative data.
Explain additional instruction and resources, supported by the data, to enrich, redirect, and remediate the learning experience.

Instructions
Scenario
The following scenario is the background for your assignment and the data that is provided.
Your students (in a hypothetical eighth-grade geography class) took a test and completed a 3–5 page essay on the topic. Before your students can successfully move on to the next lesson within this unit, you have to determine what they need to do in order to achieve proficiency of the four standards below:
Standard 1: Students describe how humans impact the environment and how the environment impacts humans.
Standard 2: Students describe how to represent geographical information, such as spatial distributions and the location of places and their characteristics, in different graphic forms including large-scale and small-scale maps that use cartographic conventions.
Standard 3: Students analyze the impact of geography on available resources and the impact of available resources on the quality of life.
Standard 4: Students propose an actionable response to a geographical challenge and explain the expected outcomes of the proposed intervention.
Look carefully at the standards and the data to determine:

What gaps in knowledge are evident?
Are student ready for enrichment (enhanced instruction and resources to extend learning) around the standards?
Do students need remediation (additional instruction and resources) or redirection (additional guidance and resources)?