The Ohio Department of Education is once again recruiting districts for the Ohio Performance Assessment Pilot Project (OPAPP), which is aimed at creating and piloting performance-based assessments as well as defining the nature and implementation of the tasks to be used as part of statewide test instruments. For our last year of OPAPP we are offering a Middle School grant where teachers will create learning tasks and implement them in their classes. Applications to field-test performance assessments for Ohio’s Next Generation Assessment System are available here on the department’s website for the Middle School pilot (mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies).
Hurry! Applications for the Middle School pilot are due September 27, 2013 with notifications of acceptance made by October 4, 2013. Details about the pilot and application can be found here. Questions may be directed to Lauren Monowar-Jones at lauren.monowar-jones@education.ohio.gov or (614) 728-1759.
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