2008 ANGEL IMPACT Awards - Exemplary ANGEL Program
Award Recipient
Jefferson County Public Schools
JCPSeSchool eScrimmages Program
Louisville, KY
Contributors
Ghenna Chernavski, Math Resource Teacher; Sherry Ederheimer, English Resource Teacher; Stephanie Greathouse, Science Resource Teacher; Michael Ryan-Kessler, Social Studies Resource Teacher; Mary Schneider, Business Resource Teacher; Ford Smith, Humanities Resource Teacher
Program Description
eScrimmage mini-courses help JCPS high school students prepare for Kentucky's Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) assessment virtually using ANGEL. Mini-courses in six subject areas are developed and maintained by resource teachers in the district's virtual high school JCPSeSchool. Each course includes pretests, lessons and post-tests aligned with core Kentucky content.
The JCPSeSchool eScrimmages Program optimizes ANGEL functionality to produce measurable results.
- District high school students logged into eScrimmage mini-courses 94,000 times during the 2007-08 school year, an average of 3.4 log ins per student.
- District statistics correlate a high number of logins to improved CATS scores, especially among students at low achieving schools.
- High rates of improvement have prompted other Kentucky school districts to inquire about making eScrimmages available to their students for CATS assessment preparation.
JCPS' model use of ANGEL functionality streamlines delivery of the eScrimmages Program.
- All lessons and pre- and post-test questions for each mini-course are stored in an ANGEL Learning Object Repository (LOR).
- ANGEL Master Courses created for each subject area link to the content in the ANGEL LOR.
- Pre- and post-tests use ANGEL's Question Pool question type and Keyword Manager to enable randomization and intentional reuse of the same questions in both pre- and post-tests.
- High school teachers import the Master Course for their subject area into a pre-created course shell. The process is so efficient it took less than a day to create more than 200 new mini-courses.
- Each course contains its own ANGEL Gradebook enabling teachers to monitor student progress and include mini-course grades in students' cumulative grades if they choose.
