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As a hopeful high school English teacher, I plan to use data collection and reporting tools to track student progress and uncover what my students succeed and struggle with in each lesson. A survey, such as an "exit ticket", in which students fill out a small paper with details of the basic concepts of the lesson they just completed and the teacher then collects and reviews the responses to determine the level of mastery of the subject the students achieved , is a great way for teachers to analyze the effectiveness of a new lesson plan or activity. I plan on using Excel to create checklists to analyze student performance on essays and oral presentations. Using Excel, I can design a graph with columns containing criteria titles, and spaces to jot down notes about the specific student's performance. For example, I could create a chart with several columns to grade Literature essays, with criteria such as: use of a specific tense (past, present, future), an introduction, con...
