Patrick Nugent

EDUC 351
4/20/15
Analysis of Student Learning
Whole Class:
The following table shows the results of my post-assessment plant. Since my preassessment plan was a general question directed to the class as a whole there are no preassessment scores.
Student Number
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

Score
3/5
4/5 (Average)
4/5
3/5
5/5 (High)
4/5
5/5
5/5
3/5
2/5 (Low)
5/5
4/5
3/5
3/5
3/5
2/5
5/5
4/5
5/5
5/5
3/5
4/5
3/5
4/5
4/5

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27
28

4/5
5/5
3/5

Overall, I was blown away with the average score for my students. Initially I was hoping
that the average would be 3/5, but to my surprise it was up to 4/5. The lowest score that any
student made was 2/5, which totaled to two students. When creating my lesson plan I first
thought that my students may not know a whole lot about unions. After the pre-assessment this
hypothesis was dead wrong, and instead they ended up knowing the basic concept of what a
union was. The question that most of my students struggled with was number three which asked,
Which of the following is a con for unionizing? After taking a closer look at the question I
believe that some of the students may have read over the part that said con. As a result the
students may have been confused about the question.
On the post-assessment 7% got 2/5 correct, 32% got 3/5 correct, 32% got 4/5 correct, and
29% got 5/5 correct.
Individuals:
I chose three individual students to analyze their learning during this lesson. I chose a
high performing student, student #5; a average performing student, student #2; and a low
performing student, student #10.
Student #5 was engaged in the lesson and was not afraid to say what they had already
knew about union. When I would pause for a moment to ask the class their opinion on the
subject Student #5 was one of the first to answer. I also noticed that this student did not once
pull out their phone during my lesson unlike Student #10.

Student #2 did participate in the lecture, but at times would lean over to their friend to
talk. Although this student was engaged in most of the lesson, I believe that their grade may
have suffered as a result of talking. If this was not the cause it may have been the fact that they
rushed through question three which a significant amount of students missed. By not reading
closely it would have been easy for a student to miss this question.
Student #10 sat in the back of the classroom and consistently pulled out their phone
during my lecture. They also put their head down near the end, and by doing so caused them to
miss the last section of the lesson. This student missed questions two, three, and four. I believe
that if the student would have paid attention during the lecture that they may have at least
answered questions two and four correctly. After looking over the quiz I find it difficult to hold
them accountable for missing number three since approximately half the class missed it.