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My name is Renata Gaddy.

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I am a seventh- and eighth-grade
language arts teacher

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at Shotwell Middle
School, in Houston, Texas,

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as part of Aldine
Independent School District.

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The Data Analysis Booklets
are a tool that was developed

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by our department
head, Barbara Dixon,

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to help us assist the students
in tracking their progress

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as they go throughout the year,
taking the benchmark exams

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and the other standardized
exams,

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to help the students determine
what they need help with

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and how they can improve
not only their scores,

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but their logic behind
their decision making

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when they chose certain answers.

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The students always
start by looking

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at what answers they got right
and what answers they got wrong.

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They are supposed to write down
the question they got wrong,

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write down the answer choices
that were available to them,

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and write down the
answer that they chose.

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And then after that, the
students are expected to write

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down why they chose the
answer that they chose,

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what the rationale was.

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In some classrooms, they will go
a step further in the booklets

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and write down how
they are going

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to improve for the next exam.

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The Data Analysis Booklets
also allow students

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to see exactly what areas
that they have concerns in.

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When they go back and they look

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at their exam-with the
teacher's guidance,

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of course-and they notice, oh
I missed questions two, five,

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and seven, those were all
mood and tone questions,

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they will put that in
their Data Analysis Booklet

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and then will have a better
understanding of the fact

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that maybe they are deficient
in that area and they know

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that that's what they in
particular need to focus on.

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They are also required
to go back,

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write down why they
missed those answers,

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which is the most
valuable piece, I think,

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because they really
have to be cognizant

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of why they are making the
mistakes they are making.

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Initially, students weren't
really keen on the idea

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of the Data Analysis
Booklets, just like we

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as teachers weren't really
keen on having to do all

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of our own data analysis because
it is very overwhelming to look

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at a bunch of numbers or to have
to track your progress and see

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where you were weak and
where you were strong.

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So initially the students
weren't really keen on the idea.

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They said, "We took the test.

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We are done with the test.

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Why do we have to go back
and look at this test again?"

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But now they have noticed that
they have improved in areas

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and they are seeing the growth
and they are taking ownership

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of it, and they are noticing

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that the reason they
are improving is

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because not only did they help
identify their own weaknesses,

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but they came up with a plan
and, guess what, it worked.

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Well now they are really
starting to enjoy looking

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at their Data Analysis Booklets,

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working on their Data
Analysis Booklets,

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and then planning again for the
next time that they need to work

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on their Data Analysis Booklets.

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I think that the Data Analysis
Booklets are a wonderful tool

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for students beyond just
learning their core content

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area, beyond just learning
language arts or math

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or science, because they
provide students a way

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to strategize how they are going

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to be problem solvers
in the future.

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Because really, success is
dictated by your ability

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to respond to failure, your
ability to plan for the future,

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to see how you are going,
to correct your mistakes.

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So the ultimate goal here is
not just to create students

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who perform well on tests,

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although that's a
wonderful by-product.

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The ultimate goal is
to create students

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who are critical thinkers, who
can go throughout their lives

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and be able to recognize
their deficiencies,

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accept that without becoming
upset or without deciding

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that they are not going
to be motivated anymore

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and they are just
going to give up.

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The ultimate goal is for them
to look at their mistakes,

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recognize them, embrace them,

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and then strategize how
they are going to fix them.

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And I think that is the
best thing that we can get

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out of the Data Analysis
Booklets,

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creating productive citizens
who know how to learn

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from their mistakes, can
recognize why they made them,

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and then who can move on.