Baseline Data

I have been thinking about my baseline data and how I will measure progress in my inquiry this year. I have decided that the best way to see if my implementation will lead to change will be to base this on my beginning of the year reading data, student confidence in reading, student enjoyment and engagement as well as my well being data that I collected at the beginning of the year. I will outline this data is greater detail in the post below.

In order to have baseline data I needed to select my target students. Below are my target students showing beginning of the year reading age with a comparison of their actual age. I do have three other students that are on the cusp of this group as well who are reading at level 25 that I will include in the data as well. 

As you can see from this data set my target students are just below where they need to be for their age. Looking at this data at the beginning of the year was why I chose this as my inquiry focus. They are only just below where they need to be at the moment but if they stay at these levels they will fall further behind when they enter year 6. 

My hunches again are around vocabulary and seeing how this can have an impact as well as comprehension specifically looking at inferring. I will add graphs to this data at a later date when I am looking at comparisons for now this is the raw data from the start of the year which I will use as a baseline for my end of year data.