Data Manipulation: Here is some data and questions for you to answer as you analyze it.
Helping Parents to Understand Standardized Testing: As part of your discussion post, write some key ideas you would share with parents about standardized testing. Assume the parents have little to no experience with standardized tests. What would you tell them about why standardized tests are used, key concepts they need in order to understand their children's scores, how you will use the data, problems with testing.
Here is some standardized test data that should be interesting to you; this is a collection of Praxis II PLT scores from some Capital students a number of years ago.
PLT Early Childhood:
163,166,174,175,175,177,178,178,178,179,180,181,181,181,182,183,184,184,185,187,188,190,191,191,192,193,196,200,164,166,167,170,170,170,174,177,179,181,181,184,185,185,185,188,188,188,189,190,190,191,191,192,192,192,192,193,194,196,197,199,200,200
You can copy and paste each set of scores into this calculator and get a quick answer.
For each group, find:
Mean (Average)
Median
Mode
Standardized Deviation
What implications does this data have for a person who is teaching Educational Psychology?
Critique of Standardized Testing and Tests
Here is a source of information that question the value of standardized tests. This is offered because you likely have heard so many reasons that we need standardized tests that learning about the problems with standardized tests will hopefully be refreshing and different.
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Learning Activities
Data Manipulation: Here is some data and questions for you to answer as you analyze it.Helping Parents to Understand Standardized Testing: As part of your discussion post, write some key ideas you would share with parents about standardized testing. Assume the parents have little to no experience with standardized tests. What would you tell them about why standardized tests are used, key concepts they need in order to understand their children's scores, how you will use the data, problems with testing.
Standardized Test Concepts
http://www.hishelpinschool.com/testing/test4.htmlhttp://quizlet.com/_652tu
Statistics Overview (or Review): Videos
Intro to Statistics
Normal Distribution
Mean, Median, and Mode
Introduction to Probability
Standard Deviation
Percentiles
Percentiles Part 2
Z-Scores
Interpreting Standardized Test Data
http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=1&n=10Data Manipulation Practice
Here is some standardized test data that should be interesting to you; this is a collection of Praxis II PLT scores from some Capital students a number of years ago.PLT Grades 7-12:
191,188,186,185,184,182,181,180,179,178,177,176,175,173,172,170,169,168,167,164,163,153,152,137,186,185,185,182,181,180,180,178,178,177,177,177,176,176,175,175,175,170,169,169,167,163,152,157,159,160,162,164,165,165,165,165,165,166,167,167,167,168,168,168,169,169,169,169,170,170,171,171,174,174,174,175,175,176,178,179,179,180,180,180,186,187,187,191
PLT Early Childhood:
163,166,174,175,175,177,178,178,178,179,180,181,181,181,182,183,184,184,185,187,188,190,191,191,192,193,196,200,164,166,167,170,170,170,174,177,179,181,181,184,185,185,185,188,188,188,189,190,190,191,191,192,192,192,192,193,194,196,197,199,200,200
Use the following tool:
http://www.easycalculation.com/statistics/statistics.php
You can copy and paste each set of scores into this calculator and get a quick answer.
For each group, find:
Mean (Average)
Median
Mode
Standardized Deviation
What implications does this data have for a person who is teaching Educational Psychology?
Critique of Standardized Testing and Tests
Here is a source of information that question the value of standardized tests. This is offered because you likely have heard so many reasons that we need standardized tests that learning about the problems with standardized tests will hopefully be refreshing and different.http://www.fairtest.org/k-12/high%20stakes