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I always enjoy attending the Straight Talk discussions the Ohio Department of Education runs at these conferences because they are an opportunity to hear concerns from across the state and get answers from the top (based on most current information, of course). The discussion at Ohio’s 2012 Annual Statewide Education Conference this week was no different.
In updated and clarified PARCC news, the End of Course and End of Year exams in high school courses will account for anywhere between 20-30 percent of a student’s grade in the course. I heard that and immediately started calculating all the ways a student could still pass even if he or she failed the assessment, but wait–guidelines will be set for the other 70-80 percent to ensure equity across the state.
I am an advocate for streamlining and simplifying processes, and if Ohio’s new Instructional Improvement System, or IIS, actually lives up to its name, it should absolutely streamline and simplify some processes.
Today, when I pull student data for our teachers and principals, I have to go to several different websites–one for value-added data, one for Ohio’s assessment data, and one for local-developed assessment data. Talk about a convoluted process.
The IIS, sounds like it will be a one-stop shop for all of this data….and more.
To say we need to “incorporate” or “integrate” more technology is counterproductive; we need to dive in head first because our students are already engrossed in it, and we need to catch up to them.
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