Heat Mapping Student TestingProcessesTom Story

Introduction Teacher for 14 years in MPS Web Designer since 2007 Technology Interests in Testing

ADHD Slide Tracking Mouse Movement

http://readheat.com Teacher name is iud78zmi Go Play. We’ll catch up to later!

Online Standardized Testing History 2005 – Student quizzes were online 2009 – Student online testing for

Houghton Mifflin Reading series 2011 – MAPS online 2014 – CCSS/ Smarter Balanced / PARCC

Teacher Accountability It started out as online tests as tools to

assess students and find areas for teachers to target in their classrooms.

Now - In year 1 of EEP, school reading comprehension score account for 5% of of review, and will dramatically increase after.

Website Marketing Heat Maps Analytics Images Clicks/Flow

19 Tips We Learned From Heat Tracking Study on F Pattern Reading

Online Reading Patterns F- Shape patterns Books are read different than online

materials Sitting and posture on computer

Test Technologies Smarter Balanced Example

PARCC Examples

Smarter Balanced Practice Test

Test Practice PARCC

Heat Mapping Used in many different places. A visual

tool to get an idea of how things move or are being used

Heat Mapping Test PracticeReadHeat.com Algorithm of time where mouse is spent

and is flowing to Timer is added to output to show how

long student spent Both Text and Questions Can be anonymous Email sent to teacher

JA - Low

JF-High

Student Accountability Students initially are just logging into a

test practice Once students catch on they are being

watched, they spend more time. Once they see heat map and the

expectation, they spend more time on reading text.

Student Findings Who is this really for? Reluctant readers – high and low Low students that seem to be rushing

through testing

Testing Video

ADHD Follow up Let’s Try this

Contact

tom@venataur.com