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Assessment of ICT Literacy Using Portfolios

Session Description. How can all schools in NH be on the same page with portfolio assessment of ICT literacy? Learn about ICT projects and assessment rubrics to use with your students. Learn the current status of portfolio use across the state and gather ideas for your curriculum.. Using portfolio

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Assessment of ICT Literacy Using Portfolios

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    1. Assessment of ICT Literacy Using Portfolios Cathy Higgins, State Ed Tech Director NH Department of Education Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference Nashua, NH December 4, 2008 at 12 – 1:30 in Windsor 2

    2. Session Description How can all schools in NH be on the same page with portfolio assessment of ICT literacy? Learn about ICT projects and assessment rubrics to use with your students. Learn the current status of portfolio use across the state and gather ideas for your curriculum.

    3. Using portfolios for ICT literacy assessment Getting all schools on the same page

    4. Where are you?

    5. Assembling a Statewide Team A statewide team of about 24 educators from all regions of the state To enhance current portfolio implementation efforts of all schools by developing a common set of assessment rubrics that can be used by all middle schools to assess digital portfolios of 7th and 8th grade students. Completion of this work will increase statewide capacity to understand the level of preparedness of our New Hampshire 8th grade students for increasingly complex skills in high school.

    6. Timeline Phase I – Development (December 2008 through March 2009) Phase II – Implementation (April 2009 through August 2009) Phase III – Dissemination (Fall and Winter 2009)

    7. ICT Literacy Toolkit www.nheon.org/ictliteracy ICT standards Resources Case studies of how schools implement Presentations Upcoming grant awards to assemble statewide assessment rubrics team

    8. What???? Another Test? NAEP Tech Lit … is it another test? eSchoolNews thinks it is: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=55483

    9. Annual School Tech Survey 2007-08 Survey closed in February 2008 Qualitative responses discussed

    10. Integrating into Curriculum 54% of schools (187 out of 346) described ways in which they are purposely integrating ICT into curriculum and/or doing curriculum alignment work.

    11. Portfolio Folders 20% of schools (72 out of 346) discussed their efforts to ensure that students have a portfolio folder (note that creating folders is only a beginning step of portfolio creation).

    12. Computer Classes 11% of schools (37 out of 346) described the use of a computer class to implement the standards, integrating computer work with regular class work and beginning to create folders to use with portfolios. Some schools describe additions to computer class strategy, including mobile carts and use of the library media center.

    13. Storage for Student Work 7% of schools (25 out of 346) discussed their efforts to provide storage for student folders to ensure that digital work was being saved.

    14. 8th Grade Students 5% of schools (19 out of 346) discussed their efforts to provide a structure and process for 8th grade students to create digital portfolios.

    15. Developing Rubrics 4% of schools (14 out of 346) described their work developing and/or using rubrics to assess portfolios

    16. Projects 3% of schools (11 out of 346) described their emphasis on projects to support ICT literacy

    17. Student Reflections LESS THAN 1% of schools (2 out of 346) described the inclusion of student reflections in their portfolio process

    18. School Examples

    19. Josiah Bartlett Elementary School Each student in our school has a folder. Within that folder are tech expectations for K-2, 3-6 and Middle School. Middle School also has a skills checklist. Eighth grade students complete a digital portfolio. We have standards in place for our K-8 students. The information from staff is input to a tech expectations form that is in each student's folder. At 8th grades students complete a digital portfolio and a skills checklist.

    20. Barrington Middle School In every grade, all students keep their files on the server. In grades 6-8, students have a portfolio folder on their desktops where they save certain projects required by the Math, Science, and computer teachers. We will be introducing Moodle by the end of the year to students and will begin using Moofolio by the next year.

    21. Fall Mountain Schools There is a Tech Partner in this building who is part of a district-wide model in helping teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Teachers are having students save their work in network electronic portfolios.

    22. Hampton Falls Every student in grades 1 thru 8 has a personal work folder on the file server. At the end of the year the folder is named for the student, grade, and year. Inside the main work folder the student makes a subfolder named Portfolio, with initials, grade, and year. The student drags examples of their best work into the folder and any assignments which were done specifically to learn particular tech skills - graphics, photos, research, presentations, etc. In 8th grade, the student selects personal choices plus assigned projects to include in the portfolio and adds a reflection piece to any samples which do not yet have reflections. The artifacts are organized in a PowerPoint, Photostory3, or similar file format.

    23. Keene High School The school has an ICT team that attended the state's digital portfolio training sessions in 2007-08. The lead teacher of this team developed an iMovie of the process, and presented this at a faculty meeting. The plan requires one digital artifact for each class next year. They will be stored in a portfolio folder on the school's hard drive.

    24. Lafayette Regional Our students K to 6 have folders on the school server. We received one of the e-portfolio grants and four staff attended the meetings in the fall. We are purchasing multiple copies of Adobe Pro and will begin educating teachers on how to use it to maintain student portfolios.

    25. Merrimack High School We offer several credit courses in applied technology. We also require all freshmen and sophomores to add at least 1 curriculum artifact into their digital portfolio each year. Additional artifacts must be added if the student chooses to use the portfolio to satisfy the 1/2 credit requirement. We began compiling portfolios in the elementary and middle school grades last year. As those students move into the high school they are familiar with the concept and are more likely to add artifacts and to consider using their portfolios for credit. Next year we will expand our high school portfolio requirement to juniors, and the year after, all four grades will be required to add at least 1 artifact per year in prescribed, required core curriculum courses.

    26. Merrimack Middle School In 2006-2007, the Director of Library Services was given oversight for the standards and technology integration K-12. The two fixed computer labs went to a fully integrated model focused on teaching ICT Literacy skills in the context of classroom content. One lab is staffed full-time by the computer technology educator and the other is staffed two days a week by the Grade 5-8 Technology Integration Specialist. These technology educators design lessons and units in collaboration with classroom teachers to address core curriculum content.

    27. Merrimack Middle School (cont’d) All 7th and 8th graders have created portfolios into which these content artifacts are saved. Portfolios are assessed by the computer technology educator and the Grade 5-8 Technology Integration Specialist at the end of grade 8. In addition, the librarian collaborates with classroom teachers and other specialists to integrate technology into project-based research units using the computers in the library.

    28. Moultonborough Academy We are in the process of working with teachers and students to identify evidence that fits the ICT standards. We are also introducing the rubrics created last year so that teachers are more comfortable with the process and will be able to assess these rubrics at the end of the year. We will be having students follow a naming convention and save their portfolio work in a portfolio folder in their digital profile on the district student file server. We have not yet identified an actual Portfolio program to display student work.

    29. Newport Middle We currently have an ICT E-portfolio team of 4 teachers working on a pilot program which will implement the portfolio process into the core subject areas. The team has participated in the Helen Barrett Portfolio Planning PD sessions sponsored by the Sugar River PD Center in Claremont. Participants are the Technology Integrator, an IT Instructor, a middle school English teacher, and a high school English teacher. Through this process they have developed a PowerPoint portfolio which will be used by students in grades 8 & 9 to start.

    30. White Mountains Regional We are currently focusing our attention on grades 7 & 8. The district now provides a Technology Integration Facilitator who is planning a more structured approach to student digital portfolios. Technology is integrated into content areas. We do not provide a computer teacher or computer classes to our students. ICT portfolio development is a focus of our Technology Department this year. We are in the process of developing a skills assessment continuum which will create some very pointed tech integration activities at each grade level. We believe this will provide more structure to the development of the portfolio than it has in the past. Students have items in a folder on the server but no formal assessment has taken place. A formal assessment is being developed for use in review of Spring 08 portfolios.

    31. Windham Center School We have developed an ICT Scope and Sequence for Grades Readiness through 5. The document addresses the NETS*S standards (initial version) at each grade level. This year each student will submit three artifacts that address an ICT area that will be assessed by the classroom teacher. We are in the process of developing common rubrics for assessment. Also, ICT training is being provided to the teachers.

    32. Hopkinton At the high school level, we have been putting all students through a basic computer class based off of the ICT Literacy Standards where they build their portfolio, using projects from core curricular areas whenever possible. This class has occurred at the 9th grade level as we have worked to bring our digital portfolio system online K-8. We are close to having the system rolled out K-8 with defined rubrics to meet all standards by the 8th grade level. Once this rollout is completed, students will not need the 9th grade class, other than as remediation in some cases, and it will be phased out.

    33. Hopkinton We have a computer lab manager who has worked with both the library media specialist and classroom teachers to identify K-6 where we have projects already built into the curriculum that address the ICT standards. We are currently working on rubrics in our digital portfolio system to catalogue this.

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