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The following table displays the pre-assessment and post-assessment scores of the students in my
probability and statistics EDUC 429 clinical class. The scores on both pre and post-assessments are out of 4.
Student
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35

Pre-Assessment
2
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
2
2
0
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
3
1
0
2
1

Average Pre-Assessment Score is .743

Average Post Assessment Score is 2.83

Post-Assessment
4
4
4
1
0*
4
3
4
4
0
4
4
0
4
0*
4
0*
4
2
0*
0*
2
3
4
2
4
4
4
4
4
4
3
4
3
4

I was not surprised on the scores of my assessment plan. I was not expecting my students to
score high on the pre-assessment, but I was expecting them to improve by a large portion in my postassessment. The percentage of the class to have zeros in the pre-assessment were 42.86%. The majority
of the class scored between a 1 and 2 on the pre-assessment. Most of the students did not even answer
several of the questions because they did not know the information. I needed this information to know
what I needed to clear up or teach them in my lesson. The information on the pre-assessment was
definitions and information they will use in the lesson. Therefore, for the students to be able to do the
lesson, they needed to know the information on the pre-assessment. From their responses, I was able
to adjust my lesson plan accordingly to ensure that my students knew the correct information.
The scores on the post-assessment were much better than the pre-assessment which is what I
had hoped. There were five students absent, so they were unable to take the post-assessment. In the
chart, they are marked with an asterisk. With these students not in the percentage, there were only
6.67% of the students that made zeros. With the absent students, the percentage of zeros is 20%. This
is a huge improvement from 42.86% of the students that made a zero in the pre-assessment. The
percentage of scores between one and three is 42.86%. These students are around average on the
scores. The average score in this class is 2.83. The percentage of students that had the highest score is
57.14%. This means over half the class made a perfect score on the post-assessment. This is a huge
improvement from having the highest score in the pre-assessment to be a 3.
The scores of these students improved by 2.087 points overall on the assessments. This means
the students learned the information on the pre-assessment to use it in the post-assessment.
Individuals:
I chose three individual students with some input from my cooperating teacher to analyze their
learning from this lesson. The three students I chose are students #22, #23 and #31. These students are
a range of a low performer, average performer and a high performer.
Student #22 is a low performer. This student scored a zero on the pre-assessment because
he/she did not answer any of the questions correct. The student drew the normal curves correctly but
did not label them, so I did not see a difference in standard deviation. He/she did not answer the other
questions. On the post-assessment, the student made a two. The student was able to get the right
answer in one of the between problems but not in another. He/she also had problems solving for the
area under the curve to the right of the normal curve. This student improved by 50% from the preassessment to the post-assessment.
Student #23 is an average performer. This student scored a one on the pre-assessment because
he/she did not answer three of the questions correctly. This student only drew the normal curves with
different standard deviations but the same mean the same. He/she did not answer any of the definition
questions. On the post assessment, the students made a three. This student answered all but one
question correctly. The question he/she got wrong was the problem on the area under the curve to the
right. Instead of finding the area to the right, he/she found the area under the curve to the left. This
was the only problem wrong. This student improved by 50% from the pre-assessment to the postassessment.

Student #31 is a high performer. This student scored a three on the pre-assessment because
he/she only missed one problem. The problem that he/she missed was what the mean of a standard
normal curve is. He/she had the highest score out of the class in the pre-assessment. This student
scored a four on the post-assessment. He/she made a perfect score. He/she improved by 25% from the
pre-assessment to the post-assessment. This was not a huge improvement but he/she already had
made almost a perfect score on the pre-assessment.
There is a copy of the pre-assessment with answers and post-assessment below. Also, copies of the
students work for the pre and post-assessment for students #22, 23 and 31.

Pre-Assessment
1. What is a z-score?

2. What is a normal distribution?

3. What is the mean of a standard normal distribution?

4. Draw two normal curves that have the same mean but different standard deviation.

Answers:
1. Represents the number of standard deviations a given value falls from the mean or

2. A continuous probability distribution for a random variable x, or the mean, median and mode
are equal: symmetric about the mean.
3. The mean of a standard normal distribution is 0.
4. Draw two bell curves with same mean but different deviations (answers will vary).

Daily Grade
11/25/14

1. How much data is to the left of z = .56?

2. How much data is between z=0.95 and z=1.84?

3. How much data is to the right of z = -2.02?

4. How much data is between z = 2.95 and z = -1.57?

Answers:
1.
2.
3.
4.

0.7123
0.1382
0.9783
0.9402

Pre-Assessment
Student #22

Student #23

Student #31

Post Assessment
Student #22

Students #23

Students #31