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Standard & Mastery Report Module

Standard & Mastery Report Module

Owned by Karen-a (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Aug 22, 2012
(1) - This area of the LinkIt! Tech reporting suite enables the creation of customized reports. It can be accessed by District and School level Administrators as well as by teachers, however the data that is available to each is pre-determined by their level of permission based on their roles in the school district. 
(2) - To enter this module, click on the link: "Standard and Mastery Report" at the top of the screen to the right of Dashboard.

(3) - Creating new customized reports in this module is a straightforward process of making appropriate selections from several menus. The organizational framework reflects the idea that individual reports can be organized into a "Report Set" much like files placed in a folder or slides in a PowerPoint presentation. One user can create multiple report sets (several are shown above) and each set can have various reports. We suggest that the reports within a set are limited to 30 or fewer for optimal performance.

(4) - When you open this module, you will see an area where your report set files are placed to be opened and reviewed or edited similar to what you see above.

 
(5) - To start creating reports within a new Report Set, click on the "New" button on the bottom of this window. An Untitled Report Set will open ready to begin creating new reports or files for this set.

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(6) - Then, click on the "Report Options" drop-down box and select either Standard or Master report to begin creating a new report---the first for your set.

Standard Report

(1) - Standard Reports should not be confused with reports that cover State Curriculum Standards. Rather, these reports allow users to create basic (i.e. "standard") charts and table displays that compare student performances across a variety of categories.

(2) - Standard Reports allow you to look at two variable categories in the same report (such as schools by test or subject by gender). These variables are referred to as Main and Sub Categories in the pulldown menus on the top left.


POWER USER TIP: The best way to determine which Main and Sub categories to choose is to visualize the data labels that you want on your chart, graph or table and choose from the drop-down menus accordingly when you click on the boxes to the right of Main and Sub Categories. Generally, it is best to set the Main Category as whichever data set has more data points. For example, if you wish to compare the performance of 25 students across 3 assessments, choose "Students" as the main category and "Test" as the Sub Category.

(3) - You can begin creating a new Standard Report by selecting a Main and Sub categories from the lists that drop down.

(4) - Then, use the menu on the left to add "Filters." Filter categories allow you to filter out unwanted data from your data set. Setting the parameters here reduces the size of the data set. For example, if your district has 10 schools but you only want to compare two of them, you can select only those two by clicking the arrow to the right of the light grey "Schools" and "Teachers" buttons. Or, if you have administered 11 assessments, but are only interested in the 5 most recent, you can use the filter arrow to the right of the "Subjects, Tests…" buttons.

(5) - After clicking the arrow, make selections on the new window that appears according to your preferences. Usually, this is a matter of checking and un-checking boxes as shown above.

 
(6) - When you have all the filters checked in this report filter, you can name the report by typing into the box at the top right and then click the "Create Report" button to generate the report.

(7) - You will see that your new Report Set is labeled "Untitled Report Set" until you click on the button "Report Set Options" and select "Save Report Set As…". After saving the "Set," you can continue adding new reports within this set.

(8) - Within these reports, there is a multitude of functionality to help you to analyze the data in these reports.

(9) - You can change the Display Settings to show either a Table or Chart/Graph or both. You can change the type of Charts that is displayed by clicking one of the "Chart Types".

(10) - When you roll your cursor over the colored bars in the graph, a data set box with the percentage and number of students represented in that data set is displayed.

(11) - You can create a New Report to add to this set, Print, Change Main and Sub Categories, Export and Delete reports from this set by select these functions from the drop-down box called "Report Options" under your Report Set name.

(12) - You can also create a New Report Set, Save your Report Set, Print and Share your Report Set by clicking on the drop-down box under "Report Set Options" and making appropriate selections.

 
(13) - "Report Options" shown below in the pulldown menu
(14) - "Report Set Options" shown below in the pulldown menu.

(15) - Sharing a report set allows you to send the entire set of reports by email immediately to colleagues within your district or school.

(16) - You can change the color of the graph bar and pie charts by left-clicking on the colored area while holding the "ALT" key down for Windows operating system computers and just left-clicking on the colored area for MAC computers.

(17) - To view all of your reports at within a Report Set, click on the button under your report list that looks like a window with four sections.

(18) - To view your all of your report sets or go back to the main report list, click on "Return to Report Set List" button under your report list.

(19) - To create a new report within one of your existing report sets, click on one of the reports sets listed in the Report Sets box with named sets, then click the "Open" button on the bottom-left.

 

Mastery Reports

(1) - Similar to Standard Reports in the creation process by clicking on "Report Options", these reports divide students into groups based on customizable achievement levels.

(2) - These reports are limited to only one variable (or Category) to be analyzed at a time. Typically, these reports are used to compare performance on a single test across any of the categories you select.

 
(3) - Then, click on the "Report Options" drop-down box and select Master report to begin creating a new report for your set.

(4) - You can begin creating a new Mastery Report by selecting a Main category from the list that drops down. Then selecting key characteristics that you want your report to focus on by clicking on the "arrows" in the boxes on the left and then selecting targeted categories of data to display in your report similar to creating the Standard Report.

(5) - The Mastery Report display Achievement Levels in percent correct data in tables and various types of graphs. Therefore, the major difference in creating a Mastery Report is setting Mastery Divisions from low to high. You can set 1 through 3 divisions by entering a number in the boxes next to Mastery Divisions creating achievement groups.

 
(6) - When you have all the filters checked in this report filter, you can name the report if you would like to at this point and click the "Create Report" button on the top-right of this screen.

(7) - When you roll your cursor over the colored bars in the graph, a data set box with the percentage and number of students represented in that data set is displayed.

(8) - The Mastery Report has all of the same functions as the Standard Report, however you will notice the data is separated into colored coded mastery achievement levels.

(9) - You can display the bar or pie graph as a Stack Chart, by clicking on box next to "Show Stacked Chart".

(10) - Remember to save your new reports you add to your report set before you leave this module by clicking the drop-down box, "Report Set Options" and clicking "Save Report Set" or you will lose the report you just created.