Portfolios and Capstones

Spotlighting CTE Student Success across WV!

Desired State for WV CTE: “…student

engagement and ownership through high-quality CTE” ~ Dr.

D’Antoni

Measuring Performance…

Measuring What Matters

What gets measured, gets done ~ Tom Peters (1987)

You cannot measure what you don’t define

Key Per·for·mance In·di·ca·tor   /kē  pərˈfôrməns ˈindiˌkātər/   (abbr.: KPI)

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Measuring What Matters: Mike Schmoker

What is a 21st-Century Education? The most prominent advocates of 21st-century education

all stress the importance of learning essential content by way of authentic intellectual skills. These advocates' documents invariably contain the terms critical thinking and problem solving. They emphasize the ability to argue, analyze others' arguments, conduct research, and acquire such "habits of mind" as the ability to invent or synthesize information. Literacy—the ability to read, write, and make effective presentations—is central (Berliner & Biddle, 1995; Kay & Houlihan, 2006; Pearlman, 2006).

Define a technical assessment system

Build consensus on what makes a good Capstone and Portfolio

Share best practice regarding role(s) of administrators to support student success in demonstrating proficiency

Group Member Roles

Group Lead: keeps the work moving forward and on task

Reporter: verbally shares findings to larger group

Scribe: captures and records ideas to provide reporter

Time Keeper: alerts team to amount of time left when working

Materials Manager: gathers necessary materials for the group

noun cap·stone \ˈkap-ˌstōn\Definition of CAPSTONE1:  a coping stone :  coping 2:  the high point :  crowning achievement <the capstone of her career>

What is the purpose of the WVDE CTE Capstone?

“A student capstone is a culminating, multifaceted assessment for

demonstrating learning from all courses in a concentration. A

capstone is created and controlled by the student, facilitated by the teacher

and evaluated by outside entities.” ~ Capstone Technical Assessment Guidance;

WVDE

Three Core Components

Written ComponentProductPresentation

Three Core Components

Written ComponentProductPresentation

Summarizing what makes an effective Capstone: Product ideas & standards Related academic skills? Problem solving? Breadth and depth? NOT a Capstone product Criteria to accept proposals?

Project Component

Project will result in a product or an internship (300 hours) that includes as many skill sets as possible from the concentration. Students in multiple concentrations are required to

complete a project for each concentration.

Internships must have a completed copy of the WVDE Internship Employers Evaluation Form and include it as part of the presentation.

NOTE: Agriculture SAE, NCCER credential attainment (80%) JROTC, JUMS, ProStart Certificate of Achievement, PLTW, and SREB AC Engineering Notebook can be used as the project Component of the Capstone Assessment.

Written Portion Prompts:

Prompt 1: Summarize your Capstone and how it relates to your CTE Concentration

NOTE: Agriculture SAE, JROTC, JUMS, PLTW, and SREB AC Engineering Notebook meet the requirements of the Capstone Written Component.

Written Portion Prompts: Prompt 2: Identify at least 5 Primary

Skills, Competencies and Knowledge within your concentration and how they contribute to your successful completion of the Capstone.

Written Portion Prompts: Explain your three greatest

accomplishments or findings in completing your Capstone.

Presentation Component

Students are required to present projects and portfolios to a panel of evaluators.

The evaluation team should consist of at least one industry person. Other team members may be school/county employees and the team should be no more than three members.

The student’s CTE teacher cannot be one of the evaluators.

Date of presentation is scheduled by the school.

Administrators will collect the two or three % scores from teachers and enter each student’s average % score into WVEIS WOW by June 15th

Presentations to Showcase!

What actions

do you take to

ensure every

completer has

a quality

Capstone

experience?

Leaders’ Roles…

Generate YOUR Top Ten!

Let’s capture best practice among the

group!

Written

Compone

nt

Reviewing the Scorecard, Rubrics and Frequently Asked Questions…

Presentat

ion

Product

or

Internshi

p

Standards Sync…

What are the knowledge and skills

of our completers that we might target with

a capstone experience?

Capstone Idea Generation with Students: Describe your process…

What might be helpful ‘check points’?

Complete draft project

plan

Submit project

proposal

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Capstone Calendar Due (Individual/ Group Pacing Guides)

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Virtual Surgery Portfolio (Additional Content Category)

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Clusters of Effective Leadership Practices

Leadership that Supports Instruction 30

Portfolio (pôrt-fo [le-o [) n. 1. a. A portable case for holding loose

papers, photographs, or drawings. b. The materials collected in such a case

when representative of a person’s work. The American Heritage Dictionary

www.slideshare.net Pair up or form a trio…rally around

those with devices Jump onto site and search for ‘high

school student career portfolio’ Review any student portfolio(s) and

determine what you like and any improvement ideas

Be ready to share with larger group—thank you!

E-portfolio resources…

https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioapps/overview/levels

http://www.teachthought.com/technology/8-educational-apps-to-create-digital-portfolios/

http://careercenter.depaul.edu/resumes/portfolios.aspx

WVDE Technical Assessment System

The purpose of the Technical Assessment System, including Capstone and Portfolio is to showcase mastery of skill sets and knowledge.

Capstone completion is the technical assessment required for Perkins compliance.

A System of WV CTE Technical Assessments

How do the Capstone How do the Capstone and Portfolio relate? and Portfolio relate?

Remember the purpose…

…Spotlight Student Success!

Clusters of Effective Leadership Practices

Leadership that Supports Instruction 38

The Teachers’ Role Determine how the Capstone (and

Portfolio) will be used in terms of grading?

Guide the students in topic selection. Approve the students’ topic. Assist in guiding the organizational

system for students’ work. (electronic files for written work, etc…)

Assist the students with keeping notes, examples, information, questions, etc.. From the very beginning of the process that will be used to develop written responses.

Review rough drafts of the written prompt responses and provide feedback.

The Teachers’ Role Review a draft project plan and provide

feedback. Assist students/teams with project

management. Assign ‘check points’ to provide feedback

and troubleshoot issues. Determine an evaluation panel and

provide criteria and guidance ahead of time to evaluators.

Manage the evaluation of the written, product/internship and presentation components.

Others?

Thank you CTE Talents!

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