Performance-Based Assessment in New York Made Easy
Performance-Based Assessment in New York: Support Teachers and Students with an Easy-to-Use ePortfolio
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Performance-Based Assessment in New York: Support Teachers and Students with an Easy-to-Use ePortfolio
- Streamline teacher workflows and support performance-based learning at scale with a suite of performance-based assessment tools designed to save your teachers time
- Create student-centered pathways and rapid differentiation with a Proficiency Report to identify gaps in student learning and Activities with multimedia options for student and teacher feedback to ensure you meet all students' needs
- Monitor progress towards proficiency from the classroom to the district with real-time sorting of evidence aligned to NYS Learning Standards, a powerful Proficiency Report, proficiency-based grade book, and Administrator Reports
- Provide a window into the classroom with dedicated family accounts and messaging tools, ensuring families are kept up-to-date and engaged in their child's education
Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate in New York to Life
- Document and track student progress toward your Portrait of a Graduate competencies with a district-wide template that follows students P-12 and beyond
- Provide time and space for students to document, reflect upon, and showcase authentic measures of deeper learning anytime, anywhere with a dedicated web and mobile app
- Equip staff with the means to easily monitor, view, post, and comment upon student learning and growth in Portrait of a Graduate ePortfolios
Highlight New York CTE and Work-Based Learning Experiences
- Invite your community and industry professionals to engage and give students direct career skills feedback to ensure they progress in their work-based learning, service-based learning, and CTE experiences
- Tag students’ work to O*NET skills and NYS Learning Standards, and leverage an ePortfolio that showcases evidence of students’ industry-standard skills, work products, and credentials
Set your students apart for college and workplace applications with shareable, view-only versions of their ePortfolios
FAQs: Performance-Based Assessment in New York
Why are districts in New York implementing performance-based assessment?
New York school districts are implementing performance-based assessment to meet the changing demands of the K-12 education system. Traditional assessment methods and students advancing based on seat time are no longer meeting the goals of today’s education system or students’ needs. In response to the shift, New York is adopting performance-based assessment to ensure that all students have the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and progress when they’re ready.
How does SpacesEDU support performance-based assessment in New York?
SpacesEDU supports performance-based assessment in New York through easy-to-use multimedia ePortfolios and comprehensive performance-based assessment and reporting tools that help educators streamline their workflows and provide personalized, learner-centered education at scale.
Our performance-based assessment and reporting tools allow educators to quickly tag evidence of learning to New York Learning Standards, view proficiency at a glance for individual students and at the classroom level, provide multimedia feedback to meet the needs of all learners, and leverage a visual performance-based report card. Students can quickly upload multimedia evidence of work-based learning to their ePortfolio to highlight evidence of growth, and educators can create customizable, digital performance-based learning environments to support personalized learning pathways, including a Class Space, Group Spaces for collaboration, and 1:1 Spaces for IEPs, goal setting, and more.
Why are districts in New York implementing Portrait of a Graduate?
Districts in New York are developing and implementing their local Portait of a Graduate to respond to the changing needs of the workforce. Implementing a Portrait of a Graduate helps ensure that students build the durable skills and competencies that are relevant to their local community and needed to be future-ready and find success after graduation.
How does SpacesEDU support Portrait of a Graduate in New York?
SpacesEDU supports Portrait of a Graduate in New York by helping New York districts take their local Portrait of a Graduate from poster to effective implementation. We help districts develop a custom Portfolio Template aligned with their local competencies that follows students K-12 and beyond. Students document multimedia evidence of their learning and competency development over their K-12 journey and can share it in their defense of learning and externally for job and college applications. Stakeholders gain visibility into how students are progressing toward their Portrait of a Graduate competencies with comprehensive district-wide reports.
How are districts using SpacesEDU to support work-based learning?
In addition to leveraging SpacesEDU for Portrait of a Graduate implementation and performance-based assessment, school districts across the United States are using SpacesEDU to support work-based learning and career-readiness with an ePortfolio that showcases evidence of students’ industry-standard skills and work products. With SpacesEDU, schools districts are inviting work-based learning industry partners to engage and give students direct career skills feedback, providing visibility into student work and a clear path to growth for students. Additionally, educators tag students’ work-based learning projects to O*NET skills and standards and leverage a progress report to view learning growth and gaps.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support Portrait of a Graduate, performance-based assessment, and work-based learning in New York?
We’ve spent the past 18 years working with school districts to meet the goals outlined in their strategic plans, and have defined a proven roll-out and implementation strategy that engages all relevant stakeholders.
When a New York school district decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for Portrait of a Graduate, performance-based assessment, and work-based learning documentation using SpacesEDU, create custom training and communication plans, and ensure successful adoption of the software.
We work with each New York district to tailor their strategy, including offering a proof of concept term, to effectively evaluate the software for your use case and unique population of students.
