Charts and Graphs

Our assignment was the following:

Your job is to create and publish an online document that contains some charts. There numerous online resources for this activity including Kid's Zone

1. Chart 1 should compare the 4th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) math scores for West Virginia compared to the national average for years 2000 through 2007. Write a brief statement of what you can conclude about West Virginia's performance.
2. Chart 2 should compare the number of students currently on an IEP for West Virginia and the next 3 poorest states based on per capita income. The source is a little dated but the trend is consistent. Write a brief statement of what you can conclude about West Virginia's student population in this category relative to its per capita income neighbors.
3. Create a blog post summarizing the activity and include a link to the graphing tool, and the location of where your data came from.

Activity Outcomes: Student can create, integrate, publish, interpret, and discuss a graphic images using line or bar charts.

Looking at the information for WV's fourth grade math scores from http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/ it can be seen that although WV falls below the National Average in Math, the numbers are very close. Check out my graph http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddwjzpmc_6c7ndx4h6



WV is one of the poorer states, but by looking at the enrollment of students, WV does have one of the highest percentages of students on an IEP. My graph can be found http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddwjzpmc_8d4qgjcfj.



I created my graphs http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/ the site was very easy to create graphs and I wish I would have known about it before because it would have saved me alot of time.