4 Box Data Sorting Tool with Guiding Questions

Here is the tool for today's work during PLC: Please copy it and paste it into a Word Document.

Growth Breakdown By Class

Content Area____________________

Administration ___________________

2. Meets or exceeds proficiency but not typical growth (maintains RIT but not percentile)	1. Meets or exceeds proficiency and meets or exceeds typical growth (maintains/increases both RIT and percentile)
4. Does not meet proficiency or typical growth (maintains/decreases RIT and decreases percentile)	3. Does not meet proficiency but does meets or exceeds typical growth (maintains/increases both RIT and percentile)

Use your Student Goal Setting Worksheets to sort students into the above four categories. Write their names in the table.

After filling in the table, look at boxes 1 and 3. Highlight students who meet expected growth (maintain percentile) one color, and highlight those who exceed expected growth (increase percentile) a different color.

Guiding Questions:

1. What common things describe the kids in each box?
2. What support is currently in place for kids in group 4? What supports could benefit them?
3. What were strands were strengths of kids in group 4?
4. Why do you perceive kids landed in group 2? What strands were relative weaknesses of those students? What could help them move to group 1?
5. Are there any surprises in group 1? Why?
6. What were relative strand strengths for group 1?
7. What is working for the kids in group 3?
8. In group 1 and 3, what is in place that made students exceed expected growth? Did they show growth in specific strands?
9. Which next assessments would be most informative for each quartile?