Transcript Where We Are, and Where We Are Headed Learning Forward Kansas April 9, 2014
Where We Are, and Where We Are Headed
Learning Forward Kansas April 9, 2014
COLLEGE AND CAREER READY means an individual has the academic preparation, cognitive preparation, technical skills, and employability skills to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.
What is an IPS?
Multi-year educational plan based on career interests The Kansas State Department of Education strongly recommends that all districts implement individual plans of study (IPS) for all students in grades 8 through 12.
8 th grade – career interest survey, develop individual plan of study (at a minimum, include career interests and all courses 9 – 12 + 1 year of post-secondary plans)
Why an IPS?
Student’s Educational Path becomes: Relevant → Higher Student Engagement Focused → based on Career Interests Efficient → time and $ Not a silver bullet, but an IPS will help a student make better choices and ultimately lead to a higher % of post-secondary completion
% of Kansas w/ postsecondary degree or certification?
Kansas Class of 2011
% Graduates enrolling in Post-secondary education (2 and 4 year institutions)
76%
% Graduates enrolling in Post-secondary education earning 1 year of college credit (24 Credits)
49% *System for Education Enterprise in Kansas (SEEK)
COLLEGE AND CAREER READY means an individual has the academic preparation, cognitive preparation, technical skills, and employability skills to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.
Calculating API
17
Reading – Performance Levels
18 4/26/2020
Update on Spring Assessments
Little has changed, except “transitional test” is now “field test.” In January, CETE released additional Practice Tests containing all the technology-enhanced items students will encounter. ksassessment.org Currently, all forms are going through a quality control process. Testing window opens March 10.
New Development in 2014–2015
The transitional assessment will serve as the backbone for the new Kansas College and Career Ready Assessment Enhancements to be developed Summer 2014: Listening section Writing prompt Math performance tasks
Spring 2014 Spring 2015
Summary
Core machine-scorable items aligned with KCCRS Core machine-scorable items aligned with KCCRS Math Perform ance Task Essay Listening Items Spring 2016 Core machine-scorable items aligned with KCCRS Complete enhancements (performance task, essay, listening items) Adaptivity
Model of a Stage Adaptive Test
Full Kansas Assessment Program
Summative assessment ELA (complete in 2016) Math (complete in 2016) History/government (complete in 2016) Science (complete in 2017) Formative tools Really more like sample items now Developing capacity for teachers to build test forms using item pool In 2016, we can start building true formative, instructionally-embedded tests.
Will include science and H/G
Update on Testing
First four weeks of testing As of April 7, 2014
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) On March 27, CETE was hit with the first distributed denial of services (DDOS).
Originated outside of the United States A DDOS results in such large amounts of data sent to server that it prevents legitimate uses of that server.
Issue was reported at 7:15am and mitigated by 12:50pm that same day.
Eliminating IP addresses from offshore locations curbed the effects of this first attack.
A Second DDOS Attack
On Tuesday, April 1 CETE was hit by a second DDOS attack.
This second, separate attack was 100X stronger than the one from the previous week After the second attack, CETE enlisted the services of a contractor specializing in mitigating the effects of a DDOS.
With contractor support, CETE was able to identify traffic that was “malicious.” Initially, some legitimate school traffic was misidentified.
Important Clarifications and Assurances No student record was ever in jeopardy.
A DDOS is an incoming surge only.
No data has been compromised.
CETE is continuing to strengthen security and will work this summer to create redundancies to avoid the effects of this type of attack in the future. An external security audit of KITE will be conducted by Fall 2014 to confirm security of data.
Tests Completed by Subject and Grade
Sum of tests
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 11
Grand Total
Percent of expected
ELA Mathematics
15,087 5,800 15,295 15,331 5,792 5,000 15,335 16,116 14,576 13,085
91,740
6,643 7,773 7,511 8,352
38,519
36.7% 15.4%
8,374 8,239 6,024
16,613
16.6%
20,887 29,461 20,331 21,978 32,128 22,087 27,461
146,872
24.5%
Extend our current ESEA Waiver
All states are given the option to request an extension of their current waivers for an additional year.
If approved, our waiver would extend into the 2014-15 school year.
Must submit by early April, 2014
Respond to our current conditional “high risk” status Involves Principle 3 of our waiver.
How Kansas chooses to use student growth as a significant factor in teacher/leader evaluations.
Positive response/progress with the USDE Submitted our response on January 27, 2014 and are waiting on a response.
Amend items in our Current Waiver A new assessment model that allows for multiple assessments at the high school level Kansas will have CETE develop our state assessments instead of being involved with Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium Re-think how we identify “Not Making Progress” schools
Move the use of using student growth data to inform personnel decisions Results from the state assessments would not be used in teacher/leader evaluations until the 2017-18 school year.