After our PLD with literacy expert Mele Suipi-Latu, I set about applying our discussions to my inquiry on finding data that related to the learning needs of my year 9 Social Studies class.
On the NZCER PAT site I found my class and found the item report on the test questions that were assigned different text types.
I then noticed that 3 of the text types were relevant to Social Studies:
- Explanation (Questions 7 - 10)
- Report (Questions 21 - 25)
- Persuasive (Questions 37 - 42)
The key showed that based on student's overall result
- has high expectancy to correctly answer this question
- was not expected to correctly answer this question
- was not expected to incorrectly answer this question
Then I noticed that out of the 3 text types, persuasive language had the lowest percentage of questions correctly answered.
Why persuasive writing and language is important in social studies:
This text type can be incorporated into the talanoa as a debate topic and current issues when you have to argue why your perspective should be believed.
Politicians use persuasive writing and language, advertisers and media people.
On closer examination of the questions, I found that question 38 ‘what is the main reason…’ only 21.4% of students got it right, question 40 only 17.9% could answer ‘according to the author, why…’, question 41, what is the main argument the author is trying to make only 21.4% got it right and question 42 ‘Which statement makes the strongest attempt to appeal to the reader's emotions?, 32.1% got it correct.
The last column above compares us to the national norm and it highlights which question in particular students struggled with.
What’s next?
Discuss the steps more purposefully with my department.
At the bottom of the report, I clicked on ‘more resources’.
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