PDSA/Fractal Data

8th Grade Math

Steps to Identify Areas of Need

• Decided to focus on 8th grade students in 8th grade math• Determined that I would like to see mastery at 80% and

above; worked with this number through data collection process

• Over the summer, reviewed AIMS data in order to identify preliminary areas of need

• Administered District Pre-Test first week of school• Confirmed areas of need and created a pre-test• Did progress monitoring midway through first quarter• Completed post-test during the last week of the quarter

SMART Goal

• Students will demonstrate an increased ability to master rational number operations by moving percentage of proficient students from 32% of students at mastery level to 80% at mastery level in a 5 week period ending October 15, 2010

8th Grade AIMS Data: Number Sense and Operations

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80%+60-80%up to 60%

8th Grade Pre-Test –Fraction and Integer Operations (7 MC Questions); percent of

students at 80%mastery

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80%+60-80%Below 60%

PDSA – based on 5 question assessment covering rational operations; % of students at

80% mastery

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BeginningProgress MonitoringPost Test