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Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) Student Assessment Project “Designing a Project for Success”

Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) Student Assessment Project “Designing a Project for Success”. Date: February 6, 2009 Presented by: Marg Peppler, Project Manager Dr. Beverley Terrell-Deutsch, Team Lead For: Ministry of Education 2009 Ontario Education Research Symposium .

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Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) Student Assessment Project “Designing a Project for Success”

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  1. Ontario Psychological Association (OPA)Student Assessment Project“Designing a Project for Success” Date: February 6, 2009 Presented by: Marg Peppler, Project Manager Dr. Beverley Terrell-Deutsch, Team Lead For: Ministry of Education 2009 Ontario Education Research Symposium

  2. Outline • Background • Project Governance • Project Objectives • Evaluation Strategy • Results – Highlights in Closing the Gap • Conclusions Feb 6, 2009

  3. 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 Feb 6, 2009

  4. Project Governance Accountable for the Project OPA Board of Directors Decision Makers on Behalf of the OPA Board of Directors Core Committee Responsible to Core Committee for Planning, Execution, Control, Closure Project Manager & Team Inform the Decisions of the Project Manager and Team Advisory Group Feb 6, 2009

  5. 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 Feb 6, 2009

  6. Evaluation Strategy Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 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 Step 4 • Test evaluation questions/data requirements • with school boards: • Right data / questions to measure project success? • Clear / understandable instructions? • Reasonable effort to acquire / provide data? Step 5 Step 6 Involve decision makers in data reporting Web-based software for data input with reporting / analysis capability at back end Feb 6, 2009

  7. 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 Feb 6, 2009

  8. Priorities for Building Capacity of Teachers Feb 6, 2009

  9. Priorities for Building Capacity of Professional Services Staff Feb 6, 2009

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  11. Priorities to Sustain Assessment Process Improvements Feb 6, 2009

  12. 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 Feb 6, 2009

  13. 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 Feb 6, 2009

  14. Designing a Project for Success OPA Core Committee ACPOSB OPA Project Team OPA Ministry of Education Community Practitioners EDU Special Education Leads School Boards Advisory Group “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”. Feb 6, 2009

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