Race To The Top (RttT)

MSDE Division of Accountability and

Assessment Data Systems (DAADS)

Maryland Public Schools: #1 in the Nation Three Years in a Rowwww.MarylandPublicSchools.org

Develop the Overall Technology Infrastructure to Support RTTT

Initiatives

Data Dashboards

Multimedia Platform

Local Education Agency(LEA ) Information

Technology (IT) Infrastructure

upgrades

Developing Test Item Bank System

Acquiring Computer Adaptive Test System (CATS) Setting-up and Loading

Test Item Bank

MSA Growth Modeling

Student Growth

Educator Effectiveness

System

Formative Assessments

Data Exchange

Develop P20 and Workforce Data System

Electronic Transcript System

Computer Adaptive Systems

– High School

Projects Overview

Project Overview

MajorDeliverables Impact

Develop the Overall Technology Infrastructure to Support RTTT Initiatives (P8/11)

To build an infrastructure of hardware and software that expands the existing business intelligence reporting and analysis system for both teachers and students.

Register and monitor over 80,000 students ,teachers and school administrators in a secured environment.

Expand existing business intelligence servers and licenses to accommodate 800k students and 60k teachers.

Provide end user support and training for RttT related projects.

Provides teacher toolkit framework.

Provides single sign-on access to instructional tools to be used by teachers and students.

Promotes shared use of infrastructure tools that will result in economy of scale savings.

Creates uniform technology solutions that will improve interoperability of systems both within MSDE and LEA computer systems.

Data Dashboards (P9/27)

MajorDeliverables Impact

To build thirty six Effectiveness, Accountability and Performance (EAP) dashboards to provide visibility into student performance across the state.

Dashboards: 36 dashboards over 3 years, 12 per year

Reports: Various associated reports that will provide aggregate and detailed student performance data.

System modifications: such as the early childhood system to present data using the existing business intelligence platform that is operational as part of Maryland’s LDS.

Each Dashboard will provide information for data driven decision making.

The dashboard will provide single version of truth to policy makers and educational administrators.

The dashboards will provide data to teachers and students to improve student learning in the classroom.

Project Overview

Multimedia Platform (P10/28)

MajorDeliverables Impact

To design Multimedia Projects which will provide a cost-effective, web-based multimedia training vehicle that train educators how to use data and the MLDS and MLDS-EAP systems for educational improvement.

The multimedia platform will host 40 multi-media data-usage training sessions within the RTTT production infrastructure

The dashboards and report tutorials will explain to users how to interpret the reports and help identify and promote evidence based solutions.

Project Overview

Local Education Agency(LEA ) Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure upgrades (P11/29)

Support Application and technical infrastructure

MajorDeliverables Impact

To provide the LEAs with the necessary Infrastructures for RttT data collection, processing, and reporting.

System upgradesSystem integrationSystem replacement

Ensuring data integrity across systems

Increased capability to perform education reform data collection, data transfer, and reporting

Interoperability between the LEA systems with the MSDE systems.

Project Overview

Developing Test Item Bank System P(17/32)

MajorDeliverables Impact

To implement a Test Item Bank System with a set of test item bank questions for reading/English, language arts and math in grades 3 – 11.

Provide teachers with a test item bank system to create interim, formative, and benchmark assessments

Provide students with options for taking assessments online or paper and pencil

Teachers will be able to make instructional changes based on results

School leaders will be able to make decisions based on results

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Acquiring Computer Adaptive Test System (CATS)Acquiring and implementing CATS P(18/33)

MajorDeliverables Impact

To Provide an online computer adaptive test system for reading/English, language arts and mathematics.

The computer adaptive test system that will be interoperable with the test item bank system.

Teacher will have diagnostic information about the abilities of their studentsTeachers will be able to see growth from the pre test to the post test.Students will be able to take these assessments online

Project Overview

Setting-up and Loading Test Item Bank P(19/34)

Implement an item load and set-up Item bank and CATS system

MajorDeliverables Impact

To load test items banks into the system so that teachers can use these as tools to assess student learning and growth.

The item bank system will be loaded with items from grades 3 – 11 in reading/English, language arts and mathematics.

A process for accepting items from LEAs will be developed.

Each LEA will have the ability to incorporate local items into the system.

A large repository of test items will be available to teachers.

Teachers will use these tools to assess student learning and growth.

Project Overview

Computer Adaptive Systems – High School P(20/35)

Identifying, acquisition and implementation of testing system.

MajorDeliverables Impact

To provide sets of WIFI computer adaptive testing units to high schools.

Computer adaptive units interoperable with the test item bank system and computer adaptive test system will be purchased for distribution to high schools

High School students will utilize these tools to take the online assessments

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MSA Growth Modeling P(27/46)

Equating MSA for use on a Growth Model

MajorDeliverables Impact

The provide a recommended growth model(s) that can be used with MSA test score data.

The National Psychometric Council will conduct research on the various growth measure models currently being used nationally.

The Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success (MARCES) will analyze the various models using MSA test score data.

The NPC will recommend a growth model(s) that can be used with MSA test score data.

The recommended model(s) will be shared with the seven Local Education Agencies participating in the pilot educator evaluation system.

Project Overview

Growth Model P(28/47)

Develop and Implement a Statistical Model to Measure Student Growth

MajorDeliverables Impact

To develop, test and implement a new growth calculation predicated on student growth and educator effectiveness.

The intended outcome is to maximize student achievement through data knowledge of what skills students are learning, and to improve the statewide cadre of educators through retaining effective educators and increasing their effectiveness through professional development.

Two statistical approaches (student growth percentile and value matrices) developed and vetted by National Psychometric Council.

Year-long no-fault pilot with 7 LEAs underway.

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Educator Effectiveness System P(29/48)

Develop and Implement an Educator Effectiveness System

MajorDeliverables Impact

To develop, procure and implement an Educator Evaluation System which will provide an effectiveness rating for each educator.

Procurement and implementation of evaluation systems

Evaluation tools and applications that can be used by LEAs to evaluate educators (teachers, principals, etc.)

Mechanism to transfer teacher ratings on the evaluations to MSDE for a total educator ratings.

Provide the 50% educator data information necessary to link with the other 50% data provided by the student growth model

The model will provide an effectiveness rating for each educator.

Addresses core educational reforms focused on implementing improved performance based educator evaluations

Better of use student performance data in the evaluation process.

Use data for incentives and professional development and provide data to support educator incentives

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Formative Assessments P(3/2)

MajorDeliverables Impact

To implement formative assessment system that enables teachers to assess student’s progress and take appropriate steps to improve it.

A comprehensive online formative assessment resources system that provides resources, tools, strategies, professional learning opportunities and guidance for classroom, school, and district level sustainable implementation.

Accelerated teacher learning and student achievement.

Increased capacity of teachers and school leaders to understand and effectively use curriculum-embedded formative assessment practices.

Expanded implementation of formative assessment practices within each local school system.

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Data Exchange P(12/60)

Expansion to Longitudinal Data System (LDS) for Data Exchange

MajorDeliverables Impact

To provide a system for collecting and distributing data from the LEAs, Maryland State Department of Education, and Maryland higher education institutions for consolidation and distribution.

The MLDS Data Exchange will replace and reduce duplicate and costly data transfer and translation programming that would otherwise be performed if individual educational organizations write their own data send/receive data transfer programs.

This project provides an efficient way for the Maryland State Department of Education to share data with its 24 LEAs, the Maryland Statewide Longitudinal Data Center, and Maryland Higher Education Commission’s college data collection systems.

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Develop P20 and Workforce Data System P(13/61)

Expand P12-LDS to encompass P13 and Workforce

MajorDeliverables Impact

Alignment of K12 curriculum and student readiness skills with post-secondary education institution expectations.

Identification of programs and policies that improve transition success between K12, higher education and workforce.

To create a new, higher education data warehouse that is integrated with the existing P-12 data warehouse and Maryland’s Department of labor, Licensing and Regulation’s labor workforce data warehouse.

Create a higher education data warehouse database

Develop a multi-agency student crosswalk table to enable linking data.

Design a process to load select data into the LDS data warehouse.

Project Overview

Electronic Transcript System P(54/79)

Implement Statewide Centralized Electronic Student Transcript System

MajorDeliverables Impact

To provide Resources to the LEAs by implementing the University of Maryland’s (USM) electronic transcript system.

Creation of the LEA transcript collaboration group.

Resources to implement electronic system and integrate into existing Student Information System (SIS).

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Project Completion