Quick overview of when/how to not count an assessment question in your tracker

1. NOT COUNTING ITEMS IN THE TRACKER FILE

2. How can you let the tracker
know that an assessment
item should not count
toward the overall class
average?

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• An assessment item was completely
misaligned to your scope and sequence
- the item assessed content that students have not
yet been taught
- this might occur if you don’t author your own
assessments and don’t see them ahead of time
• An assessment item was complete junk
- you realize (after administering the assessment)
that the question was wrong or unanswerable
- this is an honest mistake that occurs occasionally
Appropriate Scenarios For Deleting An Item

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• Students didn’t do well on an item
- we never go back and delete data for items
where students performed poorly
- that is not an accurate and meaningful measure
of learning, it’s cheating students!
• Students ran out of time on an assessment
- we never go back and arbitrarily delete items
from an assessment, just because students didn’t
finish the test
Inappropriate Scenarios For Deleting An Item

5. How does the tracker know
if you wish for an item
NOT to count?

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Simply Remove the Standard ID And Points Possible
Delete the
number of points
possible
Delete the
association with a
standard
Once you remove
the Standard ID
and the points
possible, the
average will be
blanked

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Even If You Have Data Entered, It Won’t Count
The student
response data is
intact, but the
scores are not
counting