Performance-Based Credit: Building a New Approach to Student Learning

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Performance-Based Credit Building a New Approach
to Student Learning
Kentucky Department of Education
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Think Outside the Box

• How should high school work?
• Traditional day? Traditional setting?
• If you could redesign high school, what would it
  look like?

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Performance-Based Credit System

• Students may complete coursework by demonstrating
  PROFICIENCY in lieu of completing seat time,
  which is a primary requirement under the
  traditional Carnegie unit system.

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Who Decides the Standards?

• The Kentucky Core Academic Standards outline the
  standards for each course.
• Standards for elective courses are determined by
  the local district.

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What Courses Are Eligible?

• Any authorized course work that constitutes
  satisfactory demonstration of learning in any
  high school course approved for performance-based
  credit, consistent with Kentucky Administrative
  Regulation.

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Ideas for Performance-Based Credit

• Satisfactory demonstration of learning in a
  course for which the student failed to earn
  credit when the course was taken previously
• Portfolios, senior year or capstone projects
• Online courses
• Internship, cooperative learning experience,
  other school/community experiences

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The Bottom Line What You Need to Know

• Your district MUST have a performance-based
  credit policy in place.
• Be sure you know which standards must be met.
• Define how you will assess the standards and what
  is required for mastery.
• The teacher of record must be highly certified in
  the content area for that course.

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Funding/Attendance
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What are the attendance requirements?

• Attendance is not a requirement of
  performance-based credit.
• Credit determination is outcome-oriented.
• Performance-based policy set by the school
  district specifies if/how participation in a
  performance-based course will be verified.

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Funding All or Nothing

• based on demonstrated proficiency at the end of
  the course
• if the student does not demonstrate proficiency,
  the district will receive no funding
• if the student demonstrates proficiency, the
  district will receive the same amount of funding
  as if the student were in attendance in that
  course for the entire term of the course

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• Questions?

• Amy Patterson
• Kentucky Department of Education
• 502-564-2106
• amy.patterson_at_education.ky.gov