Quality School Portfolio
EDUCATIONAL AREAS
Assessment and Accountablity
Curriculum Management
Instruction and Practice
Professional Development
School/District Climate
WEB LINK
Quality School Portfolio
AUDIENCE
Administrators
Teacher Leaders
SUBJECT AREAS OF FOCUS
(Does not focus on particular subject area.)
DESCRIPTION
The Quality School Portfolio (QSP) is free Web-based software developed at the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Joyce Foundation, the Stuart Foundation, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL), and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. The desktop version of QSP is already in use in over 1,000 schools and 80 districts in 50 states.
QSP affords enormous advantages to parents, teachers, principals and district administrators. Parents can access progress reports and homework-completion reports, and view examples of their child's work and assessment criteria. Teachers can compare achievement on classroom tests to district and state assessments; assess students' current and past performance; retrieve a list of incoming students and their previous work, scores, and attendance; create custom progress reports for parents; and arrive at informed instructional decisions based on data. QSP can help principals determine school strengths and weaknesses; set and track school improvement goals based on data-informed decisions; identify student needs; plan student interventions, determine resource allocation, and access and report information on teacher assignments, qualifications, and professional development. District administrators can determine district strengths and weaknesses, monitor district-level goals, provide school board members with accurate information, use data to identify programs that work, and meet No Child Left Behind requirements.
The new Web version of QSP has six main sections: groups, reports, goals, gradebook, digital portfolio and a resource kit. The groups section allows data to be customized for analysis and reporting. The reports section creates understandable graphical representations for decision making. The goals section helps set targets and monitor student progress toward meeting standards. The gradebook section allows tracking of student performance at the classroom level. The digital portfolio section provides examples of student work. The resource kit contains surveys, questionnaires, and observation protocols to help educators gather information about their school's climate, instructional practices, safety and security, parental involvement, professional development, curriculum, instruction, technology, innovation, and special programs.
