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Part of our teacher evaluation system is showing measuring growth through data.  How do you gather data in your classroom?  If you use a survey for a pre-assessment, formative, and summative, what does your survey look like?  What key skills do you try to measure and how do you try to measure it?

Part of me thinks that if we as teachers are trying to mine this data, what if a bunch of us used the same survey that students could measure things like "comfort speaking in front of people."  It would given us a larger data pool about the importance of theatre education, too. 

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Lawrence MA
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My SGO is based on growth shown between two performances for each individual student. I use their first monologue project and their final scene. I measure technical elements - Memorization, projection, and character elements - voice acting and body acting. This is all crap anyway, so I just tried to find something that I already do and make it work. Presto! All done. 

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Jeffrey Davis
Plainsboro NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-06-2015 12:18
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Collecting Data/Showing Growth in the Theater Classroom

Part of our teacher evaluation system is showing measuring growth through data.  How do you gather data in your classroom?  If you use a survey for a pre-assessment, formative, and summative, what does your survey look like?  What key skills do you try to measure and how do you try to measure it?

Part of me thinks that if we as teachers are trying to mine this data, what if a bunch of us used the same survey that students could measure things like "comfort speaking in front of people."  It would given us a larger data pool about the importance of theatre education, too. 

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Lawrence MA
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My SGO is based on growth shown between two performances for each individual student. I use their first monologue project and their final scene. I measure technical elements - Memorization, projection, and character elements - voice acting and body acting. This is all crap anyway, so I just tried to find something that I already do and make it work. Presto! All done. 

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Jeffrey Davis
Plainsboro NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-06-2015 12:18
From: Jessica Harms
Subject: Collecting Data/Showing Growth in the Theater Classroom

Part of our teacher evaluation system is showing measuring growth through data.  How do you gather data in your classroom?  If you use a survey for a pre-assessment, formative, and summative, what does your survey look like?  What key skills do you try to measure and how do you try to measure it?

Part of me thinks that if we as teachers are trying to mine this data, what if a bunch of us used the same survey that students could measure things like "comfort speaking in front of people."  It would given us a larger data pool about the importance of theatre education, too. 

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Lawrence MA
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Part of our teacher evaluation system is showing measuring growth through data.  How do you gather data in your classroom?  If you use a survey for a pre-assessment, formative, and summative, what does your survey look like?  What key skills do you try to measure and how do you try to measure it?

Part of me thinks that if we as teachers are trying to mine this data, what if a bunch of us used the same survey that students could measure things like "comfort speaking in front of people."  It would given us a larger data pool about the importance of theatre education, too. 

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Jessica Harms
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School
Lawrence MA
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