I was super excited/nervous for final exams to come around this year. I mean, this is what all the grading reform has been leading up to--right? All my hard work hinged on one test score. Well, the moment came and went and I am pleased to say I have great news. I graphed my final class averages (all the standards tests) and the final exam scores. The correlation was certainly positive, but I needed a number! After using the conveniences of Excel (**drumroll**) 0.89 correlation coefficient!!!!! This is super exciting. I almost could have given my students JUST the final exam.
A few things I noticed:
- The Special education students were the subgroup that had the lowest correlation coefficient. However, it was still 0.74.
- The high performers had the highest coefficient at 0.91.
I am anxious to see what May will bring with the state testing. So far all the tests (to include the final exam) has been made by either me or my department. The state test in May will be the true measuring stick for what I've been teaching this year.
On another note, I haven't been updating as much as I had hoped for this year. I will, of course, do my best to post relevant information in a timely manner. That may or may not happen more often next semester.
hmm... finding correlation between score on final and score on standardized test... I should try that... (I've only done qualitative comparisons between academic letter grade and standardized test proficiency letter grade)
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