Formative and Baseline Information

In an earlier post where I took a stocktake of my CoL inquiry I outlines some of the key formative and baseline information that I will use throughout my inquiry to see provide evidence of shifts in teaching at the end of the year. Below I will outline each of the formative and baseline information that I will use and why I will use this. 

Some of the tools that I have used are 

• Running records data from last year. 
• Running records from start of term 2 to gauge where the students are at and what areas of their reading needed work. 
• PAT data - I have looked into the PAT data of my students fro reading and have pulled out some key information that I will be able to compare with at the end of the year. 
• I have also taken anecdotal notes of my students while they are reading to be able to understand where each of my learners are at and what their individual work ons are. 

I will also be using our mid year running record data to see if my students have made any progress with their reading as well as look at the key areas that we need to work on. I have been having conversations with my students about reading and I would really like to complete some student voice surveys to compare from now and at the end of the year. I have been looking at some previous student voice surveys that have been used in the past and will try and alter this to fit the purpose of this inquiry. I would like to use this data to see if there is a shift in my learners and what they think about reading. 

I think that each of these measures will bring enough data to see if there has been accelerated progress in reading from the changes in practice that have been made. This will be important baseline information that I will check at regular intervals throughout the term to see if what I am doing is working or if I need to tweak it a bit and make additional changes.