What Does the Data Tell

us?
4th/3rd Grade PLC
9/18 & 9/25
 STAAR Provides us Info we
can use
 What did you think about the released STAAR tests we
took in August?

 Take it again, but answer what you think the second

best answer is… good exercise later this year.
 What is a
Heat Map?
TEKS
Readiness or Supporting
Description
3 Years
Sorted by Variance
Purple Boxes
Rainbow line

5 Minutes- Look at your

Heat Map… what does it
tell you?
 Item Analysis
 Step 1- highlight any questions where the correct
answer is not the highest percentage. If so, this is a
complete redesign of the content.

 Step 2- Guessing Questions- highlight any questions

where all 4 answers were almost equal. If so, this is a
complete redesign of the content.

 Step 3- Distractors- highlight any questions where 2 of

the answers were less than 70%, two were low. Kids
have access to this curriculum, but were distracted.
 Item Analysis
 Step 4- Hybrids- (Know-guess) Less than 75% the
correct answer, other 3 equally balanced- Those who
didn’t know it guessed- Tweak instruction

 Step 5- Eliminate 1- correct less than 75%- 2 guess- 1

very small

 Step 6- Anything where 75% or more of the kids were

correct- celebrate and move on
 Item Analysis
5 minutes- What does your color coded Item Analysis tell
you?
 Homework
Study LEAD Forward for next PLC… guest speaker... Lori
Litchfield on how to use it.

http://lead4ward.com