DATA S

TORY

BIOLO

GY

BE

NC

HM

AR

K 1

OVERALL SCORES

OVERALL SCORES

CLASS COMPARISONS

DISTRICT COMPARISON

Simon Tech-59.09 (2011-44%)

1a.-79.78

1c.-60.46

1.d-65.3

1.f-39.34

1.g-53.01

4.a-68.03

4.b-52.87

4.c-59.02

5.a-59.18

8.a-88.52

District-49.4 (2011-47%)

1a.-76.04

1c.-53.68

1.d-48.5

1.f-34.97

1.g-44.81

4.a-53.81

4.b-53.86

4.c-33.84

5.a-50.18

8.a-84.84

DISTRICT COMPARISON

AREAS OF STRENGTH

• Trends-strengths Cell Biology and DNA Basics

• 1.a-Cell Membrane

• 1.c-Cell Diversity

• 4.a-Protein Synthesis (role of ribosomes)

AREAS OF WEAKNESS

• Trends-Cellular Energy (questions), Coding rules for amino acids very tricky

• 1.f-Photosynthesis

• 1.g-Cellular Respiration

• 4.b-Coding rules for amino acids

CELLULAR ENERGY QUESTIONS

• Identified trends in students wrong responses (will re-teach based on incorrect response)

• Question was recall on details of cellular respiration and photosynthesis

• US Video, Quickwrite, Graphic Organizer w/ a pair-share, Exit Slip-Data Director (times 2)