“USING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT METHODS AT THE CANDIDATE LEVEL”

CAEP 2014SPRINGCONFERENCE

RICK STANTON

SCOPE: THE SYSTEM FOR COMPREHENSIVE ONGOING PREPARATION OF EDUCATORS

AFFILIATION:

University ofMissouri --St. Louis

Col lege of Education

Office ofEducatorEffectivenessand Accreditation

OFFICE OF EDUCATOR EFFECTIVENESS AND ACCREDITATION

Established in April 2013

Director: Rick StantonSCOPE Coordinator: David BarberoReport Coordinator: Debbie Ballard

OVERVIEW

I will...

share our journey, which is ongoing

illustrate our evolution to a developmental assessment system

envision the future exchange ideas

KEY PLAYERS NCATE CAEP MoDESE Dean Carole Basile Faculty leadership

Associate Dean Helene Sherman Ann Taylor Dr. Michael Bahr

Faculty involvement Committee for Program Quality

Administrative support Office of Educator Effectiveness and Accreditation (of

course!) Office of Clinical Experience and Partnerships

Primary platform = Foliotek ...and others

THE EVOLUTION OF SCOPE

System for Comprehensive Ongoing…

Program Enhancement Preparation of Educators

No longer just an “electronic file-cabinet”

Unit Assessment System now has multiple tiers with distinguished targets of development

GOALS FOR THE CANDIDATE TIER

Provide Alternative Measure of Candidate Learning Demonstrate and Foster Candidate Growth

(Developmental) Promote Innovative Practices

Support High Quality Professional Experiences Gather Evidence of Impact

Candidate’s Impact on Students College’s Impact on Community

Embrace New State Standards Missouri Educator Standards Missouri Standards for Preparation of Educators

(MOSPE) Prepare Candidates for Evaluation after Employment

Missouri Educator Evaluation System (MEES)

GREAT LEAP FORWARD: RETHINKING THE TEACHER

PORTFOLIO Perfect Timing

New adaptive e-portfolio platform

New set of standards

How can we add value to this instrument and support our goals?

Not a critique of portfolios in general

MEETING OUR GOALS:

GOALSProvide Alternative Measure of Candidate

LearningDemonstrate and Foster Candidate Growth

Formative vs. SummativeDevelopmental Continuum

MEETING OUR GOALS:

GOALSEmbrace New State Standards

Prepare Candidates for Evaluation as Working Educators

Standards / Quality Indicators aligned to courses

Distinguish addressing vs. assessingMesh with state assessments (MEGA)

Required Written

Evidencein

Pract icum Oneand

Practicum Two

Example:

MEPSummary

Page

Example:

An MEPDomain

Page

MEETING OUR GOALS:

GOALFoster Innovative Practices

Low-Stakes (not a degree requirement, nor pass/fail)

Candidate-Initiated Evidence

MEETING OUR GOALS:GOALS

Support High Quality Professional ExperiencesGather Evidence of Impact

Provide guidelines for measuring student impact (when possible)

Differentiate impact from other types of professional experience

Encourage professional guidance over purely academic feedback

Track collective impact in field work

USING THE DATA

Resulting aggregate data is used for program improvement

Data is incorporated into a student “dashboard”

Candidates complete periodic growth guides (early stages)

Example:

Ratings of Teacher

Candidates in Pract icum One and Practicum

Two(counts)

Example:

Responses toM.Ed. Exit Survey

(averages)

CHANGING THE CULTURE Focus on usability – Removing the

hurdles

Increase faculty/adjunct participation(nudging the holdouts)

Leverage multiple methods of dissemination

Websites, blogs, SEO -- coe.umsl.edu/scope

Course management system Training sessions Classroom visits Promos and flyers

CONNECTING THE DOTS

Integrate SCOPE with other systems Student data management system Degree audit system COE Portal

Increase inter-rater reliability by comparing data to other evaluations and state assessments that are based on the same standards

Clinical teacher evaluations Field experience observations and growing…

TAKING THE “SCOPE WAY”COLLEGE-WIDE

SCOPE…

…will extend to all programs, not just teacher certification.

…align to other sets of candidate standards and program goals (standards-based).

…can be even more applicable at the graduate level.

…can link the “strand” of moving from ‘Candidate’ to ‘Distinguished’ / undergraduate to graduate.

It’s growing:

More than 1200 new student

accounts in a span of 15

months

LET’S TALK

Rick Stantonstantonr@umsl.edu

DirectorOffice of Educator Effectiveness and AccreditationCollege of EducationUniversity of Missouri – St. Louis

http://gocoe.umsl.edu/caep2014