Annual goals added to assessment and accountability system
Conforming to the federal No Child Left Behind Act waiver has sent a ripple of changes through Kentucky’s Unbridled Learning assessment and accountability system.
True learning is not measured only with a bubble sheet
A minute per question. That’s the time I was given to answer 120 multiple-choice questions on my Praxis test this morning.
Assessment data to be released
The Kentucky Department of Education will release data related to student assessment scores on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Three report sections will be made publicly available on that day, posted in the KDE Open House section of the agency’s website. The three report sections are: Achievement No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Reports Interim Performance Reports Kentucky Core Content Test (KCCT) Combined [...]
Kentucky Writing Project
The Kentucky Writing Project Network will host its annual fall conference on literacy at Eastern Kentucky University on Sept. 10. Kentucky Department of Education Program Review Specialist Rae McEntyre will deliver the keynote speech on the new state assessment expectations. Concurrent sessions will focus on the new Kentucky Core Academic Standards; teaching argument; literacy in content areas; visual and media [...]
Board finalizes assessment and accountability system
Kentucky's assessment and accountability system is finalized.
Board delays counting Program Reviews, gets first look at weights of accountability components
Program Reviews will not be counted as part of Kentucky’s accountability system next school year, although schools will still implement them, under a plan presented to the Kentucky Board of Education at its June 8 meeting.
Kentucky selects end-of-course vendor
Kentucky has selected ACT, Inc. as its vendor for end-of-course (EOC) examinations for the state’s public high school students. The contract period is from May 9, 2011, to June 30, 2012, and is for a total of $5,486,700. Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), enacted in the 2009 Kentucky General Assembly, requires a new public school assessment program beginning in the [...]
Kentucky selects assessment vendor
Kentucky has contracted with NCS Pearson Inc. to provide content-area tests for public school grades 3 through 8 and for writing assessments at the high school level. Pearson provides large-scale assessment services in more than 25 states and for the U.S. Department of Education. The company will provide project management; test development; administration materials; test scoring and resolution; data files; [...]
Testing part of new state accountability system complete; other work remains
State end-of-course assessments for high school students will count at least 20 percent of a student’s overall course grade or school districts will have to explain why not as part of the state’s new assessment and accountability system that starts next school year.