Feedback of Results

Evidence / Knowledge of Results (What did we learn?)

Recommendations (What do we need to do differently?)

• The Jefferson Rubric does not reward creativity and doesn’t address the 3 styles of writing.

• Narrative needs a separate rubric from expository and persuasive.

• The data showed improvement over time in all areas, yet support and organization are still the weakest areas.

• Styles of writing must be consistent across grade level for data gathering purposes to improve reliability.

• We need more instruction, modeling and practice in the revising and editing process.

• We will provide instruction in the revision process.

• The choice of prompt impacts the data. It is difficult to interpret the data if teachers collect data on a different style of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository).

• We will collect data on the same style of writing. However, each teacher will select their own prompt.

• We question the balance between data collection and instruction.

• We will do one data gathering assessment in writing each month

• We question the students’ attitudes about writing. We did not collect any data on how students FELT about writing.

• We want to keep the enjoyment of writing an area that we monitor.