Welcome to CCSSOSCASS HEAP

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Welcome to CCSSO/SCASS HEAP!
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware,
DoDEA, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland,
Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North
Carolina Pennsylvania, Philadelphia School
District, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
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State of the HEAP -- 2004

• What we ask, determines what we find. What we
  find determines how we talk. How we talk,
  determines how we imagine. How we imagine
  together determines what we achieve.

Welcome to Orlando! Mickeys Definition of BIG
KIDS Young enough to believe in magic and old
enough to appreciate new experiences !
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Mickey and a HEAP of Friends
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Mickey and a HEAP of Friends

• Well miss you Todd!

Welcome aboard, Matt!
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The State of the HEAP

• SRT Meeting
• Orlando, FL
• January 24-26, 2005

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HEAP mission (2001)
To develop effective health education assessment
resources through a collaborative process, and to
increase members capacity to align curriculum,
instruction, and assessment to improve student
health literacy through improved health education
instruction.
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A Look Back

• Phase 1 Foundation Phase 1993-95
• Built a foundation for developing an assessment
  system
• Phase II Development Phase 1995-00
• Developed assessment items based on the National
  Health Education Standards
• Phase III Implementation Phase 2000-05
• Supporting implementation in the states

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HEAP Phase IIIImplementation Phase 2000-05

• Funded by
• Contract with Centers for Disease Control and
  Prevention (CDC), Division of Adolescent and
  School Health (DASH) to support and expand the
  HEAP
• Member states participation fees

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Finishing Phase III

• Planning for Phase IV

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Searchable database

• Final quality assurance steps for current draft
  database (Phase II items)
• Cleaned up Exemplars
• Anchor and practice papers are ready for
  inclusion
• Commentary to be added to practice paper key
• Aligned 600 Phase I Selected Responses to HEAP
  Descriptors
• Issues to resolve items stats for Phase I
  Selected Responses

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• Curriculum and Assessment
• Framework
• Introduction revised to include rationale of
  health education, school reform, character
  education, and Safe and Drug Free School
  information.
• Ready for CDC review by the end of the year.
• Professional Development Modules 4 and 5
• Final CDC review
• Expect delivery soon

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• Submitting Manuscripts for Publication
• Contractor Eva Marx
• Article about development of the HEAP sent to CDC
  for review
• Currently collecting data on the impact of the
  HEAP via telephone surveying
• Future manuscript will focus on HEAP state
  members efforts to align pre-service and
  in-service

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• Aligning Health and Reading with a HEAP of Books
• Submitted to CCSSO in manuscript form
• CCSSO review
• ToucanEd moves manuscript to design
• Black/white copies to SRT/workshop
• Aligning Research Based Curricula
• Consultants Nancy Emberley Kris McNally
• Determine quality assurance process

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• HEAP Distance Learning Initiative Year 2
• Providing technical assistance
• Pilot States (AR, NC, VT, WY)
• More from Paul

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Status of 2005 Products
PD Flyer
On-line Course
On-line Assessment
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Moving Forward to Phase IVAssessment and the Web
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HEAP Plan of ACTION
Plan Implement
Observe Reflect
Revise
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Feedback from Iowa CityThere was an exchange of
information regarding the direction of the
collaborative. Is this what you want?
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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat did you find the
most useful in this meeting?
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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat did you find the
least useful in this meeting?

• Range finding anchor session
• Facilitated group scoring
• Playing with the searchable database
• Standard setting

Also reported by some participants as the
most useful.
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Building Capacity An Evolution

• Mega SCASS, New Orleans (1/03)
• Increased awareness of alignment issues,
  including cognitive complexity
• SRT, Seattle (9/03)
• Feedback from SRT Need help with cognitive
  complexity and understanding by design
• SRT, Charleston (4/04)
• Introduction of cognitive complexity (Blooms
  Taxonomy Webbs Depth of Knowledge)
• SRT, Iowa City (9/04)
• Analyzing and developing prompts for cognitive
  complexity
• Mega SCASS, Orlando (1/05)
• Writing cognitively complex prompts (Tues. 215
  pm)

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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat topics do you want
covered in next meeting?

• Continue expanding our assessment literacy

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Advancing Assessment Literacy Iowa City, 2004

• Develop framework (TAG)
• Develop items and tests
• Performance Assessment and Rubric Development
  Analyzing and Developing Prompts for Cognitive
  Complexity
• Administer tests
• Score tests
• Range Finding and Anchor Selection for
  Performance Tasks
• Report results
• Standard Setting

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Advancing Assessment Literacy Orlando, 2005

• Develop framework (TAG)
• Develop items and tests
• Dissecting and Writing Prompts
• Writing Cognitively Complex Prompts
• Administer tests
• Score tests
• Scoring Student Work from Performance Tasks
  Anchor and Practice Papers
• Report results

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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat topics do you want
covered in next meeting?

• More work on prompts and cognitive complexity
• Writing cognitively complex prompts (Tues. 215
  pm)
• Session spent on dissecting the prompt
• Dissecting and writing prompts (Tues. 845/1030
  am)

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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat topics do you want
covered in next meeting?

• More on distance learning
• More on web-based assessment

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Advancing the HEAP through the WEB

• HEAP Distance Learning Initiative
• Progress Report (Monday, 1015 am)
• HEAP Web-Based Assessment System
• Report on pilot (Tuesday, 100 pm)

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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat topics do you want
covered in next meeting?

• Continue to have state/district/teacher
  presentations
• Suicide Prevention Performance Tasks WI (Tues.
  845/1030 am)
• Putting the HEAP Assessments on a web-based
  framework Pam (AR), Leslie (PA), Larry (WY)
  (Tues. 100 pm)
• States share their stories VT/CT (Weds. 915
  am)

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Feedback from Iowa CityWhat topics do you want
covered in next meeting?

• More training ideas
• Reading and Health Workshop (Tues. 845/1015 am)
• More training on scoring
• Scoring student work from performance tasks (Mon.
  100 pm)

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Advancing the HEAP

• Funding and proposal writing
• Specific funding streams vs. funding for
  comprehensive health education
• Preparing for scenario of reduced funding
• Issues affecting, staff, products services, SRT
  involvement, etc.
• Responding to HEAP requests
• NASPE
• Research

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