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The Open High School of Utah

David Wiley, PhDDepartment of Instructional Psychology & Technology

Brigham Young University

A Moonshot for Bloom’s 2 Sigma Challenge

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Bloom’s 2 Sigma Challenge

Bloom, 1984

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One-to-One Tutoring

And other methods compared to 30 students in the classroom

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Average Tutored Student by 2 SD

In other words, the average student is capable of much more

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Tutoring is Expensive

So we teach class instead!

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Bloom, 1984

If the research on the 2 sigma problem yields practiced methods (methods that the average teacher or school faculty can learn in a brief period of time and use with little more cost or time than conventional instruction), it would be an educational contribution of the greatest magnitude. (p. 5)

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To Tutor Or Not to Tutor?

That is the (false) question

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“Strategic Tutoring”

What if we could do just-in-time, just-on-topic, one-on-one tutoring?

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Obs. 1 - Requires Great Insight

We’d have to know who needs help, when, and what they need help with

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Obs. 2 - Requires Great Curriculum

The more the student can learn from the materials, the less tutoring is required

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Obs. 3 - Data Is the Key

You’d need live, fine-grained data about student, assessment, and curriculum

performance

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Simultaneous Continuous Improvement

Working in a way that constantly improves both student learning and the curriculum

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Curriculum Use

Curriculum Redesign

StudentPerformance

Data

Data Describing Curriculum

Performance

Data Supporting Strategic Tutoring

The Loop

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OHSU Teaching Model

Create and aggregate great curriculum, let it do as much instructing as possible,

follow-up with “strategic tutoring”

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How Do You Improve Curriculum?

Performance data alone aren’t sufficient –you need permission

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Open Educational Resources

Give OHSU the permissions it needs to engage in continuous improvement

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OHSU Charter Requires OER

Founders’ way of “burning the ships”

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Two Quick Screenshots

From the Agilix BrainHoney system

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State Standards As Skeleton

Standards provide the framework for content aggregation and assessment

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Restricting Access to the Bible

Zealously and passionately

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Supporting Strategic Tutoring

Data visualized in an easy to use manner

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When Tech and Policy Collide

A story from history: 1000 - 1600

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Watch Out Bloom, Here We Come!

OHSU is only a few weeks but the model is already proving terrifically effective

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Lots of Research to be Done

We would love more research partners!

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Thank You

david.wiley@byu.edu801-422-7071

http://davidwiley.org/