RIEPS: Rhode Island Electronic Portfolio System

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RIEPS Rhode Island Electronic Portfolio System

• An Open Source Application Supporting High School
  Reform

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RINET

• Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology
• Private/Nonprofit
• Facilitates consortium technology purchasing
• Provide statewide high-speed network
• Provide SIS
• Provide ePortfolio

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RINET and ePortfolio

• Bring stakeholders together
• Host RFP process
• Host applications and data
• Connects to SIS nightly
• Provides helpdesk and training

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Timeline

• Process of defining system early spring 2005
• Key stakeholders
• National and state models
• RFP May 2005
• Reviewing Solutions June 2005
• Final Choice September 2005
• Design, Development, and Implementation
• Ongoing work 2008
• Work on ILP
• Extend use of Collaborative Learning Tools

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Findings

• Few K-12 options
• Higher Ed pricing models
• Open Source of great interest
• Local university and district experimentation
• Develop to meet our needs
• Something we could share
• License free
• Sakai potential as Collaborative Learning
  Environment
• Support model?

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Regents Regulations

• The RI Regents Regulations January 2003 focus on
  students includes three main areas
• Literacy
• Graduation by Proficiency
• Personalization

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• PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
• Proficiency-Based Graduation Requirements
• Multiple opportunities and measures to
  demonstrate proficiency for graduation

State Assessment


Plus
20 Credits
Diploma Assessment
Diploma Assessment
Proficiency
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• Diploma Assessments
• Graduation Portfolio, Exhibition, or
• Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM)
• Independent learning using Applied Learning
  skills
• Linked to personal academic and career goals
• Required proficiencies, standards-based

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RIDEs Role in RIEPS

• Gates grant provided initial support for
  development of Graduation Portfolio
• Networks for Graduation Portfolio and Exhibition
• Toolkit that defines the basic requirements of
  graduation portfolio
• Models and pilot school program
• RIDE funding for statewide electronic portfolio
  system
• Provides resources for implementing HS Diploma
  System
• Recognition of lack of technology support in
  Districts
• Provide consistency in Graduation Portfolio
  across and among districts

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Requirements for Graduation Portfolio

• Valid evidence as part of diploma system
• Performance-based showing applied learning
• Sufficient numbers and types of entries
• Aligned to standards
• Student choice and selection
• Reflections
• Evaluation

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Start-up work

• Process of defining system
• Key stakeholders involved
• Reviewed national and state models
• RFP, vendor screening, and final decision
• Design, Development, Implementation

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Results to date

• Consistency of implementation
• Discussions regarding sufficiency and standard
  setting and academic management of portfolio
  process
• Sharing of best practices
• Student results

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Work Continues

• On-going collaborative effort between all
  partners
• Steering committee
• Users group meetings
• Work includes user documentation, state-wide
  rubrics, ILP

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Rhode Island Electronic Portfolio System

• Goals of member districts
• All teachers and students participate in the
  ePortfolio
• Teachers develop and share portfolio-worthy
  assignments
• Teachers assess student learning on assignments
  according to state standards and district
  expectations
• All 2008 graduates submit a Graduation Portfolio
• Districts provide reports of student learning to
  state and accrediting organizations

• Current implementation
• 15 High School Districts
• 25 High Schools
• 40,000 Students
• 3,200 Teachers
• 13,000 Course sites

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The RIEPS Learning Process
Collect informationabout your learning in your
courses In relation to statestandards
Connect with othersby sharing your
Graduation Portfolio and receiving theirfeedback
Collection
Reflection
Connection
Selection
Reflect upon how these artifacts of
your learning relate to your high
schools expectations for graduation
Select aspects of your learning to include in
your Graduation Portfolio
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• RIEPSPortfolio-Worthy Assignments

Teachers may create their own assignments or
import them from libraries of common tasks
validated at the state level.
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RIEPS Assignments Linked toState Standards and
District Expectations
Teachers link portfolioassignments to state
goals and district expectations and rate student
work according to goals
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RIEPS Reports

• Student reports allow students to assess fours
  years of work for inclusion in a Graduation
  Portfolio
• Teacher reports assist teachers in managing
  portfolio work in their courses
• Reports for district administrators
  aggregatedata for reporting to the stateand
  accrediting agencies

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Graduation Portfolio
Each high school provides a portfoliotemplate
for students to use in re-purposing portfolio
assignments tomeet graduation requirements.
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RIEPS Components

• Teachers
• Create portfolio-worthy assignments for each
  section of each course
• Associate assignments with state standards and
  district expectations
• Use reports to assess student work in their
  courses
• Students
• Submit assignments for teachers to rate according
  to associated standards and expectations
• Use reports to assess their work in preparation
  for graduation
• Re-purpose assignments according to district
  expectations using the Graduation Portfolio
  template for their school
• Administrators
• Use reports to aggregate assessment results for
  reporting to the state and to accrediting agencies

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RIEPS Rhode Island Electronic Portfolio System

• Sharon K. Lee, Ph.D. RI Dept of Ed
• sharon.lee_at_ride.ri.gov
• Steven K. Foehr RINET
• steve_at_staff.ri.net
• Jim Monti West Warwick Public Schools
• jmonti_at_WestWarwickPublicSchools.com
• Janice A. Smith Ph.D. The rSmart Group
• janice.smith_at_rsmart.com

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Thank You!