Middle School Learner Quality Entry
15.November.2008 10:13 Filed in: PowerSchool
In
general, the Learner Qualities in the middle schools
are just another area of assessment, like Math,
Reading, or Science.
“Also, for LQs - one of the concerns has been that entering grades and LQs takes five times longer than it used to, especially due to the learner qualities being on separate pages...”
>>>It should actually be three to four times faster in the worst case scenario for our middle school teams. For our elementary schools, there is no difference in Learner Quality entry. (Though, in the elementary schools, we have added the ability to mark an “Area of Strength” in addition to an “Area of Concern.”
Focusing back on our middle schools, where we give actual grades in the Learner Qualities, in the case of really good Learner Quality assessment, where students have been given grades throughout the trimester, everything is done. If those grades have been being entered like other academic grades, such as math and reading assessments, all that these teams need to do at the end of the trimester is enter comments.
In cases where Learner Quality grades have not been collected throughout the trimester and where the teacher or team is going to identify that students overall final grade for each Learner Quality and then enter, the process of entering these grades should literally take less than five minutes to enter each LQ for an entire team (i.e., all of the kids)!
With the old method of having to choose pull-downs for each student for each Learner Quality, entering grades for each Learner Quality would take about 15-20 minutes for an entire team. Entering grades for all four Learner Qualities would take about an hour.
Since most students will, hopefully, earn a 3 in each Learner Quality, the teacher entering the Learner Qualities can use the Fill Scores feature (page 38 in the manual) to help him or her by filling a “3” for all of the students first. Then, he or she can go back and change the scores of the students that earned a 4, 2, or 1 to those grades.
This is just two steps...
1. Open the Fill Scores dialog under the Tools menu.
2. Then, select the following options and click “OK”.
In other words, this method of entry is 3 to 4 times as fast as the old pull-down method of entry.
Can you pull up one student and enter all LQs for that student and then go on to the next?
>>>No. Each LQ is a separate class assigned to a separate teacher. Separate classes are required to get separate grades on the report card. Separate teachers allows for ease of entry throughout the trimester. (Otherwise, if I was entering SDL grades, my teammate could not go in at the same time and enter QP grades. With separate teachers assigned to each gradebook, we can do so...)
“Also, for LQs - one of the concerns has been that entering grades and LQs takes five times longer than it used to, especially due to the learner qualities being on separate pages...”
>>>It should actually be three to four times faster in the worst case scenario for our middle school teams. For our elementary schools, there is no difference in Learner Quality entry. (Though, in the elementary schools, we have added the ability to mark an “Area of Strength” in addition to an “Area of Concern.”
Focusing back on our middle schools, where we give actual grades in the Learner Qualities, in the case of really good Learner Quality assessment, where students have been given grades throughout the trimester, everything is done. If those grades have been being entered like other academic grades, such as math and reading assessments, all that these teams need to do at the end of the trimester is enter comments.
In cases where Learner Quality grades have not been collected throughout the trimester and where the teacher or team is going to identify that students overall final grade for each Learner Quality and then enter, the process of entering these grades should literally take less than five minutes to enter each LQ for an entire team (i.e., all of the kids)!
With the old method of having to choose pull-downs for each student for each Learner Quality, entering grades for each Learner Quality would take about 15-20 minutes for an entire team. Entering grades for all four Learner Qualities would take about an hour.
Since most students will, hopefully, earn a 3 in each Learner Quality, the teacher entering the Learner Qualities can use the Fill Scores feature (page 38 in the manual) to help him or her by filling a “3” for all of the students first. Then, he or she can go back and change the scores of the students that earned a 4, 2, or 1 to those grades.
This is just two steps...
1. Open the Fill Scores dialog under the Tools menu.
2. Then, select the following options and click “OK”.
In other words, this method of entry is 3 to 4 times as fast as the old pull-down method of entry.
Can you pull up one student and enter all LQs for that student and then go on to the next?
>>>No. Each LQ is a separate class assigned to a separate teacher. Separate classes are required to get separate grades on the report card. Separate teachers allows for ease of entry throughout the trimester. (Otherwise, if I was entering SDL grades, my teammate could not go in at the same time and enter QP grades. With separate teachers assigned to each gradebook, we can do so...)
