1. Developing Strategic Plans and Strategies to Increase Student Achievement in Science Day 4 DC Advancing Achievement in Technology and Science (DC ACTS) Fellows Summer Leadership Institute

2. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 2 Strategic Management/Plan Model James Morrison and Ian Wilson’s Strategic Management Model (2004)James MorrisonIan Wilson External Analysis Organizational Assessment

3. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 3 Internal Analysis

4. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 4 Tools That Help Excel Exercise 1:To Get Started (Basics) Excel Exercise 2: Excel (graphing) –Variance and STDEV –Conditional Formatting Homework: External Analysis Template [Word... PDF]WordPDF

5. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 5 Tools That Help 2 Case Studies –JoJo –Tilly –Grade Book Templates –Examples of Excel Gradebook –Case Study: Filtering See Grade Book Template and Filtering Handout

6. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 6 Case Study Scenario LOOKUP and Analysis See Filtering Handout: How to LOOKUP

7. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 7 Advanced Features With Excel Combining worksheets Sorting-one and multiple columns (possible) Working with your data For Tomorrow

8. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 8 Homework Reading: –Skim worksheets/notes given in class –Review steps 1-5 from Standards for Success reading packet –Here are some readings that you might find interesting: DATA: Maximize Your Mining, Part OneMaximize Your Mining, Part One DATA: Maximize Your Mining, Part TwoMaximize Your Mining, Part Two Fine Tune your External and Internal Analysis “chapters” related to your school even further— determining where the area of emphasis should be Find a group of grades (i.e., a past class or past grading period with several classes— you can change the names ) –Bring in a lesson plan –Bring in your textbook

9. Questions? Contact Information: Davina Pruitt-Mentle Director: Educational Technology Policy, Research and Outreach University of Maryland 2127 TAWES College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-8202 dpruitt@umd.edu

10. Assessment and Design Strategies/Excel - 2005 ETO COE UMCP 10 Group Activity When your students enter each fall: How do you know where they are regarding: prior knowledge? behavioral or special needs/ IEPs? How do you check students incoming understanding regarding what the years content will be covered? If they were to take the standardized test or and end of the year benchmark science test how would they do?