The file below contains item analyses for the Grades 3 to 8 New York State ELA Exams for 2009.
For each grade, you may group the data by: 1) Individual Class (at each school), 2) School (the entire school), 3) Network, 4) District, and 5) Citywide.
The file includes numerous “views” of the data, each easily accessed by simply clicking on the various tabs at the lower left of the worksheet.
For example, you may: a) compare each class to citywide averages for each item, b) compare the performance of each class to all other classes at each school, for every item, and c) view a summary of the results of all classes in each school side by side.
Hotlinks are provided to each test item, to display the actual question from the test with the associated performance indicator.
README contains further information and details on all that is included.
Item Analysis of the NYS ELA Exam 2009 - Click this link to download the data. This is a powerful tool containing a significant amount of data (30 megs). Please allow up to 5 minutes to download. To work properly, this file must be downloaded and saved BEFORE it is opened.
FIRST DOWNLOAD AND SAVE, then open the file.
It is best viewed in Excel 2007.
For Those Using Older Versions of Excel and Word
The data file was created using Excel 2007. You should not have any trouble opening and using it in Excel 2003. However, if you do, the following links will take you to a version saved in Excel 2003. It may operate somewhat slower (when you first open it), and some formatting will be lost. The data however, will be accurate.
Item Analysis of the NYS ELA Exam 2009 - as Excel 2003 fileREADME - as Word 2003 file