Campus: Stehlik Intermediate School

Getting to the Root Causes Worksheet

Step I:

Examine questions with less than 80% student mastery.

What is your hypothesis as to why students performed as they did?

Grade _5__Content Area: __Social Studies___ Test: _3rd BMT___

Hypothesis I:

Hypothesis
Students struggled to understand the images on the
test.
Students struggled with NOT questions.

Hypothesis II:
Hypothesis III:

Step II:

Students struggled with the language level of some of the

questions.

List data to provide evidence of the hypothesis and interventions

that should be made.

Hypothesis I

Evidence:
Intervention
& Timeline

Hypothesis II

Evidence:
Intervention
& Timeline

Hypothesis III

Evidence and Timeline

#6 Students chose mountains because they
argued that the people had to travel through the
mountains to get to the west.
Review to check for understanding in the
following days.
#10 Many of my students said they had a hard
time following what seemed like a double
negative.
Review and reteach the concept within the
following days. Explain in simple English.

Evidence:

Students said that they didnt understand what the

question was asking.

Intervention
& Timeline

Retest using more simple language in order to test

understanding of general concept.