“What did I learn and how can I use it in the future?”
My readings, exploration of spreadsheet examples, and close attention to the videos taught me so much information about how to navigate through Excel and how to create, manage, organize, and change a spreadsheet. I think that it is amazing how many different ways we can present the exact same information. Spreadsheets are an extremely clean and clear way to analyze and assess data.
Specifically, through session two I have learned how to create a spreadsheet. I have mastered an efficient way to organize rows and columns and I have learned how to execute weighted grades with the Excel program. I have also learned why we use spreadsheets so much in terms of the Philadelphia School District's emphasis on predictives, benchmarks, and all standardized testing scores. I now understand how laying out very specific and individualized data for each students can help me to re-teach. This layout also allows me to pinpoint a particular student's weaknesses, confusion, or strengths. I have learned how to sort, graph, and color in certain blocks on my spreadsheet.
I think that the use of spreadsheet may be the best way to look at data without feeling overwhelmed, lost, or confused. Having information so organized and specific allows educators to consider the needs, success, and progress of every single student. Spreadsheets also help us to analyze in many different ways; we can look at a class as a whole, at individual students or at a specific group of students within a whole.
Although I am nervous to begin working on my spreadsheet project I am excited to navigate and familiarize myself with some of these applications. I have very little experience with spreadsheets and excel but based on how much I have learned so far I am confident that this project will only help me to grow and develop as an efficient educator!
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