Herding Cats 2.0 by Team Blended Cats

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The document proposes a mobile application called Blended Cats that would analyze assessment data and generate reports to help educators form personalized student groups. It found through research that educators have lots of data but it is not presented in a timely or relevant way to guide instruction. The proposed app would take data from various assessments, allow educators to select grouping criteria, and generate administrative, classroom, and student reports to facilitate cohort grouping and differentiated instruction. It describes how the app would work, logging in and selecting assessments, grouping criteria, and report options to generate customized reports for administrators, teachers, and students.

Technology

Blended Cats

Team: Herding Cats 2.0
Peggy Jacobs
Paul Cavender
Michele Burke
David Shaub
Karen A. Sorensen
Designed during SLC
Camp Denver, CO
November 18, 2012

Problem

Educators have plenty of data from
numerous sources but it does not provide
timely, meaningful, and relevant information
to analysis in order to create instruction
based on cohort grouping to serve students.

“Data Rich, Information Poor”

A cross platform Mobile application that
takes information from assessments and
generates administrative, classroom, and
student reports that allows educators to
select personalized groups for learning.

Valuation

•Secondary Research
-Teaching Panel
-Interviews
-Research Reports
-65 years of classroom experience
•Primary Research
-Survey on Facebook, Twitter and Cold Calling
•Key Findings “What are you kidding!!!
-Saves Time
Absolutely!
-Effective Instruction Decisions
2nd Grade Teacher
-Increase Teacher Satisfaction
-Quality Differentiated Instruction
-Real Time Feedback

“Yeah, Can you have that ready
for after Thanksgiving?”
5th Grade Teacher

How it Works
Educator Login

Grouping
Assessments Selection Report
Checklist Process Options
•Benchmark •Skill Ability •Administration
• State •Learning Styles •Student
• Learning Styles •# of Students in •Classroom
Group

Administrator- Classroom-
Big Picture – Student-
List of student by Historical
% Classroom, category allows for
School, District Individual Matrix
cohort grouping

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