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Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)Student Assessment Project
“Designing a Project for Success”
Date: February 6, 2009
Presented by: Marg Peppler, Project ManagerDr. Beverley Terrell-Deutsch, Team Lead
For: Ministry of Education2009 Ontario Education Research Symposium
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Outline
• Background
• Project Governance
• Project Objectives
• Evaluation Strategy
• Results – Highlights in Closing the Gap
• Conclusions
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Background
• Early in 2006: issue of wait times for professional assessments tabled by the Minister’s Advisory Committee on Special Education
• April 2006: OPA were approached by the Ministry of Education to develop and lead a project to provide a $20M grant to school boards
• Purpose: support the school boards and school authorities to reduce wait times for students requiring professional assessments and to enhance teacher capacity
• Target Students: Junior Kindergarten to Grade 4
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Project Governance
Project Manager &Team
Advisory Group
Core Committee
OPABoard of Directors Decision Makers on Behalf
of the OPA Board of Directors
Accountable for the Project
Responsible to Core Committee for Planning,
Execution, Control, Closure
Inform the Decisionsof the Project Manager
and Team
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Project Objectives
• reduce wait times for students in junior kindergarten to grade IV requiring professional assessments
• enhance teacher capacity to provide effective programming for students provided with professional assessments
• improve literacy / numeracy for students provided with professional assessments
• sustain assessment process improvements for the long term
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Evaluation Strategy
Clear project objectives & measures defined,
approved, & communicated to school
boards up front
School boards develop
Assessment Capacity Building
Plans
100% Success Model
Monitor school board progress and coaching to facilitate success
Test evaluation questions/data requirementswith school boards:
•Right data / questions to measure project success?•Clear / understandable instructions?
•Reasonable effort to acquire / provide data?
Web-based software for data input with reporting / analysis capability
at back end
Involve decision makers in data
reporting
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Step 4
Step 5 Step 6
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Results – Highlights in Closing the Gap
• Building capacity of teachers to provide effective programming for students provided with a professional assessment
• Impact on student achievement
• Status of activities to sustain assessment process improvements for the long term
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Priorities for Building Capacity of Teachers
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Priorities for Building Capacity of Professional Services Staff
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Classroom T eacher Feedback on Literacy Gains for Students Provided with a Professional
Assessment - % of School Boards
69%
1% 0%
29%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Agree N eutral D isagree Too Early to Tell
Students demonstrate gains in literacy performance
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Priorities to Sustain Assessment Process Improvements
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Sustain Assessment Process Improvements
• Results report “Summary of Key Results Areas – Critical Findings”:– is available in English/French on the Ontario Psychological
Association website at: http://www.psych.on.ca/?id1=117
• Resource Guide “Sharing Promising Practices”:– produced in English/French– contains brief descriptions of each school board project with 12
of them in more detail– More than 6000 copies distributed to Ontario school boards and
other project stakeholders– For copies contact OPA at 416-961-5552 – Carla Mardonet
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Conclusions
• 100% success model• Established a governance structure• Set clear direction with objectives and evaluation
measures at the beginning• Developed plans to meet project objectives and
monitored progress along the way• Tested evaluation questions / data requirements
and made changes based on stakeholder feedback• Involved decision makers• Developed web-based software to efficiently
collect, verify, summarize and analyze the data• Planned for knowledge mobilization
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Designing a Project for Success
Ministry of Education
Advisory Group
OPACore
Committee
School Boards
CommunityPractitioners
OPA Project Team
EDU SpecialEducation
Leads
ACPOSB
OPA
“Understanding, responding to, and managing the expectations of project stakeholders is one of the most crucial ingredients in designing a project for success. In the final
analysis, a project is only successful when the stakeholders declare it so”.