Erin Fountain's Post: The Various Uses to Educators of Sites that Display Test Data

Using Google.com, I searched the topic: "The Various Uses to Educators of Sites that Display Test Data", and found a website that first looked to me like Angel. The website,http://www.d3a2.org/home/datatool/, stands for Data Driven Decision (D3) for Academic Acheivement (A2). There are several bar graphs displayed, and through reading the text on the page, I discovered that this system is being used by teachers for the Ohio Achievement and Graduation Tests. This system is designed to help teachers view their students performances and make grading simpler.

The reason it reminded me so much of Angel is because there are two seperate sections: current students and current teachers. The students can easily read their results by the use of colorful bar graphs. It is almost the same idea behind Angel, as well. Some of the tabs under the student section are: current students results, current students' performance standards, current class-data all standards, etc. So basically, the students can see how they performed compared to how the other students did. In a direct quote from the site, D3A2 "helps educators analyze data, and then points them to resources such as lesson plans and assessments, all designed to address the specific academic needs identified by the data." The three tabs, Current Students Tab, Data-Analysis Lite tab, and the Item-Analysis Advanced tab, teachers can view easily how their students are peforming.