Bring back information that was available on Class Report Summary page
Using the soon to be discontinued Class Report, teachers are able to see their instructional area performance to determine the weakest and strongest instructional areas. When I called in to the support line, I was informed that this information is not available in any of the other reports. Please find a way to incorporated that into the class profile. It is SO helpful to know that information when determining the greatest needs within a classroom. Please, please, please!
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Sandy Boersma commented
I totally agree with this comment! You've taken away the reports that show us our class breakdowns in one view. It's too hard to print the new reports, and we have to piece information together ourselves to get the information you used to provide.
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William Porter commented
NWEA said the new reports wouldn't lose any existing features AND would be easier to use. Yet, the Class Profile is not easier to use for teachers as the one-page of the old Class Report is now multiple pages printed out (with data cut off!). And, you can no longer view domains labelled by Area Descriptors (Low, LowAvg, Avg, HiAvg, High). Teachers use this info in PLCs and in planning to group students, enrich, remediate, etc. The new report is NOT teacher-friendly. It was built to "look pretty" tech wise, but teachers don't need pretty. They just need the data in simple, one page format. Please do not eliminate the other 8 reports you have planned to kill, and please bring back the class reports.
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Diana Coveny commented
While the interactive class profile report is beneficial, it is not printer friendly as it cuts off some of the data represented in the interactive report. Our teachers/staff very much miss the class report that was printer friendly as it is a crucial piece of our PLC action plans that contribute to our continuous improvement planning.
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Shannon Harding commented
We used the Class Report for many things that have been listed in other requests. One thing not listed is we use it to see who may have tested multiple times or not tested at all in one of the tests. It was easy to see the number of students who tested and to be sure they all took the right test.
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Brian Nussbaum commented
The loss of the ability to have a printed copy of this retired report is a real challenge for how we helped teachers digest data. This was the only report we printed in the past. We had an activity after each fall testing session teachers used highlighters to track individual students and to see the variability in the subscores. This ability to see this on one (printed) page was crucial. It really helped teachers to not view students as a single number, but with strengths and areas for growth.
It was also the page that teachers could use to quickly group students for an activity--sometimes heterogeneously, sometimes homogeneously.
This data now (sort of) lives on the Class Profile. But without the ability to see multiple instructional areas at a time, nor the ability to print, it is not very usable.
Please bring back this legacy report!
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AdminAdam Wolfgang (Admin, NWEA) commented
Thank you Laura for the feedback, we have heard many partners express this same concern. Our plan is to add the instructional area quintile visual to the Class Report by summer 2024 prior to retiring the Class report. We have set some lofty criteria to enable retirement of those legacy reports, we want to move the valuable data and visuals into the new reports prior to retirement. If we aren't successful in that, we will retain those older reports for another year.