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Tag: analysis
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When students misspell a common word, what is driving the error? I analysed 35,000 Peer Feedback entries in which the student had intended to write “wrong” and found 1614 instances of misspellings – about 5% of the total. Of the misspellings, 62% entered “rong”, a phonetic error 27% entered “worng”, a typographical error. My…
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Log into your Yacapaca teacher account and go to More tab -> Progression Charts For each of your student sets, you will see something like this: You can select some or all sets to compare with a simple search field. But you can do a lot more than this. You can also
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I’m really stoked about these two new features of the Activity Log page. They turn it from a page that merely reports results into one that provides immediate (and fascinating) insights into students’ behaviour. Sort on any column The default sort remains surname, but you can now use the arrows to the right of each column…
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Sometimes kids get hold of the wrong end of the stick en masse. A great example is copyright – the right to copy. A quick sampling of students’ peer feedback statements reveals that approx. 50% of statements that mention copyright see it as some kind of a crime. Here’s a quick sampler of the 20+…
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One of the great things about running a really big database like Yacapaca is that you get an absolute ton of data to analyse, and you can sometimes give definitive answers to questions other people can only speculate about. The ‘disapplication’ of NC Levels is a case in point. Michael Gove told teachers to abandon NC…
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