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Welcome!. CFAC Meeting July 24, 2014. Agenda/Topics to Be Covered. Breakfast Welcome/New Member Introductions Grant Update/Item Bank Update Schedule next CFAC meeting Project Needs, Current item writers Accessing items, planning for assessment development Survey: Clicker Use Break/Lunch.
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Welcome! CFAC Meeting July 24, 2014
Agenda/Topics to Be Covered Breakfast Welcome/New Member Introductions Grant Update/Item Bank Update Schedule next CFAC meeting Project Needs, Current item writers Accessing items, planning for assessment development Survey: Clicker Use Break/Lunch
Calendars: Schedule next CFAC meeting
Eduphoria Update Clarification of Eduphoria Use 1. If we release items with incorrect standards, what implications will that have for districts? The items will be linked to the old standards. Therefore, any tests built now will have the old standards. It will depend on how a district’s assessment platform handles updating standards on item bank items and any items included on a test. Please consult your vendor regarding how tests and items will be updated when new standards are made available. 2. Will they be able to be re-exported later, with the correct standards, to replace the items exported now? Yes, but the updated items will have the same ID number so it will be the responsibility of the receiving assessment platform to do the replacement.
Eduphoria Updates 2. Once the standards are updated, what modifications will happen for the items in the bank? eduphoria! will crosswalk the items to the new standards in the database directly. They will simply appear to be connected to the new standard in the application. Will they disappear and be replaced with a copy of the item and the new standard? The old item will not disappear, as the standard connection is only an element of meta data for each item. Updating that meta data will only change the standards association. Will the standards be deleted and automatically updated? While the old standards will still exist in the eduphoria! database along with the new standards, the meta data that associates a standard to an item will be replaced with the new standard connection.
Eduphoria Update 3. What is the time frame from the time the new standards are released to the updates being ready at the item level? After eduphoria! receives the CPALMS preK-12 course files (July 25 estimate), they will review the files (2-3 days). Then eduphoria! will provide an estimated date of completion. The CTE & ESE standards are “on hold” until CPALMS gets what is needed from the DOE.To date, eduphoria! has only provided item exports of grant-covered courses to the IBTP/Equella State Platform with direct instruction from CFAC. Any QTI Item Bank distribution will be managed and released by CFAC on a course-by-course basis to participating CFAC districts.
1. Access for Districts to upload IBTP items into their own platforms seems a bit inconsistent. Smaller districts have inquired but have not received any response from the state. How is the decision to release items to District/classroom tiers being conducted? We are concerned that items from state-assessed courses are being released entirely at the teacher level. This would impose a financial burden on Districts who were counting on using the IBTP for their interims. For Districts who are allowed to export items into their own platforms, how is the security of the tired access being upheld? The security agreement Districts must agree to is quite broad and does not seem to protect the tiered access established by the FDOE. 8. Can a consortium (NEFEC) have one security agreement instead of individual agreements for each District in the consortium 9. Can the IBTP handle export of assessments in addition to export of items?
4. Are there plans to roll out a paper-based testing option for year 1? 5. We have been told that the current load testing is based on 100,000 simultaneous clicks. Is this realistic? 6. What is the timeline for implementation going forward with the IBTP? 7. Are we on track (August) for ability for CFAC to share tests and items in the IBTP to participating CFAC districts....these districts would need appropriate permissions to access tests and items. What does the item analysis for progress monitoring look like? Does it identify strength and weaknesses by standard for each student? Is it exportable into Excel? Is the platform compatible with FOCUS?
Questions for FLDOE Brainstorm
Agenda: Afternoon Meeting 1:00 FLDOE call Eduphoria Update CFAC Fiscal Agent Agreement ACCESS Assessment Update District Discussion/Sharing
District Discussion/Sharing What do you want to share? From SDOC: Electives, SharePoint
