Review Rhode Island Diploma System and Exhibition RequirementsDescription
The exhibition design committee, as well as all responsible district and school personnel, must carefully review and consider the criteria for students to successfully earn a Rhode Island high school diploma under the Rhode Island diploma system. This diploma system, will first affect the graduating class of 2008. When determining a school's graduation requirements and designing the exhibition, members of the school community must be sure to include all of the required elements for a graduation exhibition. They must also understand and communicate the role that the School-Wide Diploma Assessment plays in the larger diploma system.
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Rhode Island Diploma System: An Overview
The Rhode Island Diploma System Overview explains the main requirements and elements of the Rhode Island Diploma System and describes the function of school-wide assessments (exhibitions or graduation portfolios), in the overall diploma system. Be sure to read over the entire document before making decisions about the role of the exhibition in your district's/school's diploma system. The overview also provides information on resources that will provide some support as your school/district designs and implements an exhibition assessment.
Rhode Island Diploma System Technical Assistance Bulletin
The Technical Assistance Bulletin describes in detail the criteria and requirements of the Rhode Island Diploma System, including those for School-Wide Diploma Assessments such as exhibitions and portfolios. This technical assistance bulletin will be useful to schools as they determine the components for their exhibition systems.
Required Elements of an Exhibition System
All exhibitions must conform to RIDE criteria and requirements for School-Wide Diploma Assessments. While RIDE has established these minimum requirements, schools are encouraged to go beyond these minimum requirements when designing their own exhibition system.
RIDE and project partners have established a set of required and recommended elements to be built into any exhibition system that will be used as a School-Wide Diploma Assessment. These elements were derived from an analysis of existing exhibitions in our state. Any exhibition that does not include required elements is not considered a School-Wide Diploma Assessment for the purpose of graduation under the Rhode Island Diploma System.
