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Building Capacity for Triangulated Assessment
Get PDFOver the last number of years, increased accountability in the teaching profession, coupled with the implementation of standards-based curricula, have resulted in traditional measuring tools such as tests, quizzes, or a performance task dominating classroom assessment practices (DeLuca, King, Sun, & Klinger, 2012). Ontario’s assessment and evaluation policy, Growing Success (2010), and Campbell et al.’s (2018) review of assessment in Ontario both support strengthening the use of qualitative feedback. However, current practices focusing on grade-oriented, surface level approaches characterized by memorization, recall, reduced thinking, preference for easier tasks, reluctance to take intellectual risks, and a diminished interest in learning continues (Kohn, 2011; Tippin, Lafreniere, & Page, 2012). A problem of practice is a situation in one’s place of work where goals and/or values might not be entirely met that is characteristic of a group of people or population (Pollock, 2014). Using Nadler and Tushman’s (1982) Congruence Model of Organizational Behaviour and Cawsey, Deszca and Ingols’ (2016) Change Path Model, this Organization Improvement Plan will contextualize a problem of practice, analyze the organization in preparation for change, and propose a change implementation plan aimed at building capacity for leaders and teachers to broaden the use of triangulated methods, the use of multiple sources over time to gather data (Herbst, 2015), in student assessment
OVERCOMING RESISTANCE WHEN ADOPTING A STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICE DELIVERY MODEL
Get PDFIn 2016, Rapp & Goscha’s (2012) Strengths-based Case Management (SBCM) Service Delivery Model was adopted as an agency wide, best practice within Organization X. However, the clinicians within Service N, who support persons with developmental disabilities and mental illness known as a dual diagnosis, resisted this service delivery model implementation. Outcome measures following implementation for those with a dual diagnosis were poor. Specifically, goal attainment and fidelity scores were consistently lower since Rapp & Goscha’s (2012) SBCM Service Delivery Model implementation. This Organizational Improvement plan (OIP) examines which leadership theories and frameworks could address the resistance in adopting Rapp & Goscha’s (2012) SBCM Service Delivery Model. Using transformational leadership, Cawsey et al.’s (2016) Change Path Model and Kotter’s (1996) Eight-step Model, a proposed change plan was suggested which identifies two solutions. Solution one involves family and caregiver participation in gathering pertinent information for the Strengths Assessment and Personal Recovery Plan when a client is unable to provide this information. Solution two involves differentiated capacity-building which augments tools to deliver service based on a client’s multiple intelligences and learning styles. Both solutions will be implemented in combination within the change implementation plan. This OIP outlines the need for change, monitoring and evaluation components of the change plan and future considerations
Story 37-2 Ernie Seglenieks Interview
Get PDFErnie Seglenieks remembers the winter storm that closed schools for days and left 12 foot piles of snow on his South Street backyard
Story 26-2 Beryl Chernick Interview
Get PDFAs one of the few women in medical school in the 1950s, Beryl Chernick recounts risqué jokes between close friends
Ariel Standing by Hear, Here Sign
No full textAriel Beaujot giving a tour, standing by the Hear, Here signhttps://ir.lib.uwo.ca/hearhereopening/1010/thumbnail.jp
Photo Facing Crowd
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