I am a teacher. I use a tracking program called Montessori Records Express. This program can output student data to an Excel spreadsheet.
When I plan a lesson for a child, the following row is generated.
name=student name, lesson=lessonNumber, date, status=planned
When the student does the associated work but doesn’t get it completely right, I update the status and the following row is generated:
name=student name, lesson=lessonNumber, date, status=improving
If the student, however, gets it right the first time, or corrects his errors, I update the status and the following row is generated:
name=student name, lesson=lessonNumber, date, status=mastered.
name date lesson status
John 11-1-2010 1 planned
John 11-2-2010 1 mastered
John 11-3-2010 2 planned
John 11-4-2010 2 improving
John 11-4-2010 2 mastered
John 11-4-2010 3 planned
John 11-3-2010 4 planned
John 11-4-2010 4 improving
Parents have access to this report. After a while, a student’s report can have hundreds of rows. What they and I would like to have is a way to find all of the lessons that were planned but not mastered to see what work hasn’t been finished, either never followed-up on or done but with errors. In the above example, lesson 1 and 2 would be filtered out but the rows for lessons 3 and 4 would remain to show that the child received the lesson but had not finished the work without errors yet.
Thanks for your help. This would really help the parents to support their children’s work.
Tom
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