This workshop is designed to be bespoke to each school. It can run as a full-day Staff Development Day, a part-day, or after an school meeting as a science faculty or representatives from multiple schools.
In this workshop, science teachers will be provided with our custom-made RAP Analysis Spreadsheets to help teachers analyse last year’s exams to inform their teaching with this year’s students. Teachers will:
- learn how to leverage RAP to inform teaching and learning
- learn how to calculate raw marks and map them to reported exam marks
- identify where their students performed well and not so well, and reflect on their teaching practices at the time, to repeat or adjust accordingly
- analyse how their students performed based on question type, value, module and verb to improve their teaching
- embark on modifying their teaching programs and student assessments based on their analyses to improve teaching and learning
Alternatively, we can analyse all of your recent HSC RAP data in fine detail to create a bespoke report on how you could improve in each of the sciences.
Please contact us ASAP as dates are limited!
Workshop Delivered by Dr Simon Crook
Dr Simon Crook is a very experienced teacher, educational data analyst and provider of professional learning, with a PhD in Physics Educations Research (USyd) and a BSc (Hons) in Physics (Manchester). Simon has been working with many high schools and school systems to analyse their RAP and other data to find the fine detail and ultimately help improve teaching and learning. Previously, Simon was an Adviser to a system of 147 schools. Simon is in regular dialogue with STANSW, NESA and The University of Sydney, and has articles published in national and international journals, including three in AARE on HSC data. He is also a reviewer for 4 international journals.