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After reviewing the Assessments for 4th grade reading, I have found that West Virginia nearly makes the National level of assessment each year. It seems as if we fall below the line or right at national each year. This only makes me think that we need to improve our school reading programs in order to better the state schools each year. It would be nice to see an improvement each year rather than the decline we have seen in the past few year. For a closer look that the assessments view the chart below:

4th Grade Assessment Chart 1


I then began to view the assessments for the 8th grade students in reading. Although still right on the line as the 4th graders, the 8th graders were only a few points from making national each year. This again makes me think that maybe we should spend more time on reading during instruction time than other subjects. Reading is the core to all other subjects. I think that we should also be offered more options to help improve the reading programs to help our students. This may bring up the scores, if we are lucky. To get a better understanding, check out the chart below:

8th Grade Assessment Chart 1

All in all, I chose the Kids Zone charts because it was fun and easy. I chose the bar graph because it helped me get a step by step process, and it was easier for me to display my data as well. I feel that a bar graph is easy to read and can be easily created in a short amount of time for essential data needs. Not to mention that these are easily learned and incorporated by using the ISTE NETS Standard #2 by being able to analyze and solve problems through technology.

Both of my graphs were created using Kids Zone.
All of my data was compiled from NAEP.