Kansas Leads the World in
the Success of Each Student.
Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education
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Shrinking the Assessment Summative Footprint
For purposes of estimating assessment time, the Kansas State Department of Education calculates one
session as 45 to 60 minutes.
MATH
ELA (English Language Arts)
SCIENCE
Grades 3 - 8, 10
Grades 3 - 8, 10
Grades 5, 8, 11
MACHINE
SCORED
2016 4 sessions
TOTAL TIME
PERFORMANCE (minutes)
1 session
225-300
2017 2 sessions Moved to interim 90-120
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MACHINE
SCORED
4 sessions
TOTAL TIME
PERFORMANCE (minutes)
2 sessions
2 sessions Moved to interim
MACHINE
SCORED
TOTAL TIME
(minutes)
270-360
3 sessions
135-180
90-120
2 sessions
90-120
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Student Success
Kansas needs 71% of workers to have a post
secondary certificate or degree.
Approximately 36% need to be bachelor degrees or
higher
Approximately 35% need to have a certificate or
associate degree
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From the first set of focus group responses, what
characteristics of success were most frequently cited?
COMMUNITY
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The business and industry focal groups cited non-academic
skills with greater frequency than the community groups:
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What does
include?
defined as skills that are instrumental
defined
as
innovative
defined as all training
in employment, or preparing for
problem-solving
skills;
aimed at cultivating
employment, or generally used for
problem-solving
that
personality, socialliving, like financial skills . . .
Defined as all traditional
incorporates
emotional
skills, 21st solutions from
century divergent
and other nonsubjects,
academic skills, like math,
traditional
skills,
experiences,
or sources . . .
reading, writing; all subjectincluding perseverance
over failure.
specific, content-focused,
knowledge-based skills,
like geography
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Within instrumental skills, the community focus
groups identified a notable subcategory:
Skills gained
from experience.
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What themes made up the strategic activities?
human capital
teaching techniques
School
climate
activities were
Less
frequently
cited
strategies:
Project-based
Career
planning
items
diverse and sometimes
Family engagement items learning items
emphasize
the learning and
calledCommunity
for
individual
collaboration
items
emphasized
conflicting.
Some
complemented
advocate
the
career
demonstration
ofand
applied
goalsmutual
and
planning,
ofofitems,
obligations
between
students
creating
an
environment
planning
but instruction
the
Individualized
andthe skills,
sometimes
contrast
pathways,
community
and
better
social
networking.
highclasses,
Real-world
expectations,
instruction
partnership
while
items
advocate
between
schools
forin
experience
varied
inconcrete,
intensity,to
curricula
further
education,
Some
advocate
student
community
service,and
others
real-life,
recommend
relevant
and
problems
realistic
families
tostandardized
started
solve,
sometimes
early—birth
from
career
interest
diagnostics
assessments.
Some
suggest
childhood
include
strengthening
transitions,
and
careers.
sometimes
as
a universally
requirement;
others,
expectations,
including
theiror
social
aEarly
through
positive
dimensions.
preK
in strategies
some
Some
items.
suggest
to
required
individual
projects
as
part
of
community
the
foundations
of
language
and
social skills at this
Somepartnerships
items
included
with
local
businesses
social
supportive
integrating
culture.
academics
Some
with
advocate
applied
joint
skills,
planning
to and
plans
that
the
student
must
service,
athe
qualification
for
sensitive
stage,
and
early
establishment
of accountability
the family
in the
agencies,
early
childhood
agencies.
improve
motivation.
forespecially
the
Timing?
child’s
As
future,
early
and
as
preK.
others,
personally
defend.
The
timing
graduation,
or ainbetter way to
parental
collaboration.
planning. When
career
opportunities
for family
varied
from
beginning
teach
ortomeasure
personality
extracurricular activities
planning should
begin—
participation
and family
Kindergarten,
middle school,
skills.
middle school?
8thto 8th grade.
education.
college collaboration
grade?--wasn’t clear.
funding
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prevention
A NEW Vision for Kansas….
Kansas leads the
world in the
success of each
student..
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Defining Success
A Successful Kansas High School
Graduate has the
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Academic preparation,
Cognitive preparation,
Technical skills,
Employability skills and
Civic engagement
to be successful in postsecondary
education, in the attainment of an
industry recognized certification or
in the workforce, without the need
for remediation.
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Creating a Vision for Kansas – State Outcomes
 Kindergarten Readiness
 Individual Plan of Study Focused on Career
Interest
 High School Graduation Rates
 Post Secondary Completion/Attendance
 Social/Emotional Growth Measured Locally
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Creating a Vision for Kansas
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade
and do the other things, not because they are
easy, but because they are hard, because
that goal will serve to organize and measure
the best of our energies and skills, because
that challenge is one that we are willing to
accept, one we are unwilling to postpone,
and one which we intend to win.”
- John F. Kennedy
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