The Digital Portfolio Add samples of student work directly from the Gradebook into the Digital Portfolio Keep track of several different formats: Written work Videos Images Audio files Presentations Teachers can quickly see how their students have performed in other classes

Literacy assessments Protocols for observation Surveys of student perceptions Criteria for evaluating student work Guidelines for developing custom measures The Quality School Portfolio provides a wide range of measures to help schools expand their local-level capability to investigate and improve their programs: The Resource Kit

How can I get The Portfolio?

States, districts, or individual schools can participate in different phases of the rollout QSP training will be offered to school teams and district IT personnel Participation is contingent on minimum technical requirements A phased rollout of the FREE web-based QSP will begin in January, 2003 The Portfolio Rollout

Provide a standardized coding system for all types of users Provide unique school, classroom, and student identification numbers Participate in a systematic plan to provide support for training to users Participate in the evaluation of the effects of the use of the software Any interested states will need to: Participation Requirements

Ensure that their participating schools have internet access Allocate time for an Information Technology professional to support the server, software, etc. Help support the costs of training along with the state and schools Provide the hardware Any interested districts will need to: Participation Requirements

Have internet access Allocate time for an administrative assistant to support school personnel with data input, system help etc. Participate in the Portfolio Training Program Any interested schools will need to: Participation Requirements

Web server - $3000 Pentium III processor 2GB of memory 80GB hard drive MS Windows 2000 Server - $700 * MS SQL Server $600 * MS Office $200 * 128-bit SSL Encryption service - $895 The minimum requirements and approximate costs for the participants: Technology Requirements Hardware Software Service *Software pricing does not account for academic discounts. Based solely on approximate general software bundle pricing to the public.

Technology Requirements The minimum requirements and approximate costs for the users: Computer - $1000 (PC) Pentium II processor (Mac) G3 processor 64MB of memory Internet Explorer 5.0 Hardware Software

All participants will be responsible for the following QSP web server requirements: Technology Requirements Available high speed internet connection and dedicated IP address Purchase appropriate licenses for all installed Microsoft software Obtain 128-bit SSL encryption service from a certificate authentication service provider

Web server MS Windows 2000 Server * MS SQL Server 2000 * MS Office XP Professional * QSP software Fully tested installation For your convenience, CRESST can provide a pre-configured QSP web server package with the following specifications: QSP Web Server Package Hardware Software Set-up *Appropriate product licenses are required to be purchased from Microsoft.

CRESST can provide 2 pre-configured QSP Web Server choices to meet your needs QSP Web Server Package Mid-Range QSP server Dual Pentium Xeon 2.0GHz 2GB DDR Memory ATA/IDE RAID 5 Solution 3 100GB IDE Hard Drives Approximate Cost:$3,000 * High-End QSP server Dual Pentium Xeon 2.2GHz 2GB DDR Memory SCSI RAID 5 Solution 3 73GB SCSI Hard Drives Approximate Cost:$5,000 * *Please note the server cost is an approximation as prices are subject to change

QSP Mid-Range Web server$3,000 MS Windows 2000 Server license$125 * MS SQL Server 2000 license$300 * MS Office XP Professional license$80 * QSP softwareFREE 128-bit SSL Encryption service$895 ** Shipping$100 Year 1 total cost of ownership$4,500 *** SSL Encryption service renewal$895/year With the pre-configured QSP web server, the total cost of ownership is: QSP Total Cost of Ownership Year 1 Year 2+ *Software license pricing based on approximate Microsoft Academic pricing. Your specific amount will vary based on your agreement with Microsoft. **SSL Encryption pricing based on VeriSign Secure Site Pro service. ***Approximate price of ownership subject to multiple pricing factors.

The Portfolio Training Program

Participating QSP pilot school personnel Separate training for one Information Technology (IT) specialist at CRESST Who is it for?

District or State personnel trained and certified by CRESST, or Certified CRESST Training Partner Who will be the trainers?

A convenient, central location determined by the trainers A location with a computer lab with internet access Where will the training be?

Attendance at one 2-day training session School-based tasks Attendance at one 1-day follow-up session What is involved?

The QSP software is FREE Any travel costs (if applicable) Substitute teacher costs (if applicable) Training materials - $200 per district Costs for trainers (if applicable) Cost of IT personnel training at CRESST (approximate cost of travel, housing and food, $700) The approximate cost: How much will it cost?

Certified training for trainers in collaboration with each partner state/district Training for technical personnel, including server setup, data import and user account setup The Quality School Portfolio software is FREE. In addition, CRESST will provide: What will CRESST provide?

How do districts and schools implement web based QSP? What are the participants’ experiences with QSP training? What is the perceived impact of QSP use on school improvement? Pilot sites will be invited to participate in a CRESST research study on QSP implementation Research Questions include: Research

Completion of one survey before QSP implementation Completion of a follow-up survey after 3 months of QSP implementation Randomly-selected phone interviews after 3 months of QSP implementation Research will involve: Research

Get Involved! Be one of the first to use the web-based Quality School Portfolio and participate in this groundbreaking initiative to use data effectively and to ensure high standards of achievement for all students. Margaret Heritage Project Director Quality School Portfolio CRESST / UCLA contact: phone:

Development of the Quality School Portfolio has been supported by: UCLA The Joyce Foundation The Stuart Foundation U.S. Department of Education North Central Regional Education Laboratory Office of Educational Research and Improvement Funding Sources

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