Wednesday, December 9, 2009

GoogleSheets Demonstration

This is my attempt to pull some visually and mathematically interesting information out of the table of test scores on our example sheet from Ed Tech class. The first table shows how each student fits into categories of standard deviation above and below the average for each test.



Green indicates more than one standard deviation above the mean, yellow indicates less than one standard deviation above the mean, orange indicates less than one standard deviation below the mean, and red indicates more than one standard deviation below the mean. This information can be useful for showing how students' standing compared with the rest of the class changed over time. Israel, for example, started off greater than one standard deviation below the mean (red) and finished greater than one standard deviation ABOVE the mean (green), a greater improvement relative to the class.



This graph shows the relative change of the mean, one standard deviation above and below the mean, and the maximum over the course of the tests. This shows that, on the whole, the class improved with each test over the grading period.

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