BAIP News

BAIP Subscription: We have received a number of inquiries about future funding for the Blending Assessment with Instruction Program (BAIP) in mathematics. As you know, the development of BAIP was initiated by the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation in 2005. For the last two years, KSDE has supported the distribution of BAIP to Kansas school districts. While KSDE continues to encourage the use and further development of BAIP, the economy has resulted in a situation in which KSDE needs to discontinue the support that has made BAIP free to districts. We have been exploring additional options including external support via grants. The challenge for the latter is that, while we anticipate the stimulus package will result in increased research and development funds becoming available, most of those competitions will not occur in time for next fall. 

A pricing plan has been developed and mailed to your superintendent. While it will not cover the full costs for distribution, we believe that we can make it work. Our commitment is to keep the costs low for districts.  

The BAIP staff continues to work on the improvement of BAIP in mathematics, the development of a science version of BAIP, and additional resources for students with learning difficulties, plus resources for parents. All of the resources are, of course, aligned with state standards. Most of these resources will be available in the fall. Districts subscribing to BAIP for the 2009-2010 school years will also have access to BAIP throughout the 2009 summer session. A BAIP subscription for 2009-2010 will also include access to the new resources as they become available. 

The use of BAIP has increased over last year from 187 to 229 districts. Over the past eight weeks, 384,188 tutorials have been completed online.

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