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Cultivating Emergent Learning. Key Points. Standardized, top-down approach is resistant to adaptation Good and complete performance information instills confidence. Current System Stifling to Innovation. Centralized Standardized Better capitalize on performance information.
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Key Points • Standardized, top-down approach is resistant to adaptation • Good and complete performance information instills confidence
Current System Stifling to Innovation • Centralized • Standardized • Better capitalize on performance information
Free Market Education • Principals as entrepreneurs • Market-regulated • Pay out of pocket
Hybrid Model/More Choice • Funding follows students • Market-regulated • Edmonton model • Nova Scotia Tuition Support Program
Importance of Performance Information • Provide greater incentive for progress • Enable progress
Barriers to Performance Information • Delayed benefits • Cost • Total participation
Understanding Performance • Identify objectives or impacts • Measure difference • Make results public
Example: Tuition Support Program Impacts Assessment • Impact Identified • Academic (SLDs, mainstream students) • Emotional (SLDs, their parents, and teachers) • Satisfaction (Parents and Teachers) • Societal (SLDs) • Fiscal (Department and school boards)
Example: Tuition Support Program Impacts Assessment • Measuring Impacts • Assessing impact • Establishing a benchmark • Controlling for bias
Measuring Impacts (Academic) • Actual documented outcomes • From the Department, school boards • Consider potential external influences
Measuring Impacts (Emotional) • Stated qualitative outcomes (Surveys) • SLDs, their parents, teachers, and staff • Avoid bias
Making Results Public • Provide greater capacity for progress • What • Outcomes • Inputs • How • School-level • Clear, Engaging, and Readily Accessible
Example: AIMS’ High School Report Cards • Comprehensive • School-level • Ranks and grades table www.aims.ca & Progress Magazine
Increasing Capacity through Autonomy • “I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” Thomas Jefferson • Capitalize on the capacity of committed educators, students and parents. • Need good information to facilitate this capacity.