District Assessment Training for 200910

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District Assessment Training for 2009-10

• Welcome
• Thank you for all you do and will be asked to do
• Get coffee, water or juice
• Get assessment notebook materials
• Sign-in for CPD credit
• Submit leave requests to Wayne Goates
• Introducing assessment secretary Sharon Wills
• Good news state testing is generally the same
  as last year

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District Assessment Notebook

• Orchid Information At-A-Glance
• 2009-10 Test Coordinators
• Salmon Oregon Achievement Standards Summary
• 2009-10 Elementary Work Sample Overviews
• 2009-10 Middle School Work Sample Overviews
• 2009-10 High School Work Sample Overviews
• Grey 2009-10 District Assessment Calendar
• 2009-10 Oregons Assessment of Knowledge
  Skills (OAKS)
• Statewide Testing Schedule
• Tan OAKS Online Keyboard Navigation Key
• Pink STC School Test Coordinator Assurance
  of Test Security
• Canary TA Test Administrator Assurance of Test
  Security
• Blue NTA Non-Administrator Assurance of
  Test Security
• Ivory Security Practices Examples
• Green 2009-10 Test Administration Manual
• Canary 2009-10 Appendices for Test
  Administration Manual
• Buff OAKS Online User Management System (UMS)
  
• Ivory Extended Assessment Updates and
  Information
• Pink English Language Proficiency Assessment
  (ELPA)

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When Are You Starting OAKS Online Testing?A new
secure test browser must be installed.
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Test Administration Manual (green)

• Oregon Administrative Rule 581-022-0610
  Administration of State Tests 5 pages
• Introduction - who must read what on page 2
• Test Roles DTC, STC, TA regional help
• Student Confidentiality No names with SSID
• Test Security with reporting security forms
• Accommodations and Modifications
• Student and Assessment Options
• English Language Learners
• Students with Disabilities

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Test Administration Manual Requirements

• School Test Coordinators must read and understand
  Parts I VIII and the appendices.
• Test Administrators must read and understand
  Parts I V and Appendices A R, as well as
  appendices specific to assessments which they
  will be administering.

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Test Administration Manual was updated on
September 21

• Appendix A Extended the test window for HS
  Online Writing
• Appendices D E Provided updated timeline for
  the phase-in of the Essential Skills graduation
  requirement
• Appendices I, J, K, L Corrected the session
  expiration period to 45 calendar days

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Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (OAKS)

• OAKS Online
• OAKS PaperPencil/Braille/Large Print
• OAKS Writing Performance Assessment
• OAKS Extended
• English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA)
• Manual includes information about PSAT, NAEP,
  Aprenda and Work Samples

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Required Assessment Options

• Reading Math at grades 3 8, and 10
• Science at grades 5, 8, and 10
• Writing at grades 4, 7, and 10
• Students in grades 9, 11, and 12 may also take
  the High School level test.
• In preparation for the implementation of the new
  Mathematics content standards, there will be an
  additional set of field test questions.

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Online Assessment Options

• Reading Mathematics Up to 3 online
  opportunities at grades 3 8, and 10
• Science Up to 3 online opportunities at grades
  5, 8, and 10
• Writing 1 online opportunity at grade 10
• Students in grades 9, 11, and 12 may also take
  the grade 10 test.

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Up to 3 Online Opportunities

• Multiple Opportunities are a means of limiting
  the impact of the real world on a students
  results including Adult errors, network
  problems, student illness, etc. Therefore 3
  opportunities for each student are not guaranteed.

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Paper/Pencil, Braille, and Large Print

• Reading and Mathematics 1 opportunity at grades
  3 8, and 10.
• Science 1 opportunity at grades 5, 8, and 10.
• Writing 1 opportunity at grades 4, 7 and 10.

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OAKS Writing Assessment

• OAKS Paper Writing Performance
• 1 opportunity at grades 4, 7, and 10.
• OAKS Online Writing Performance
• 1 opportunity at grade 10.
• Students in grades 9, 11 and 12 may also take the
  High School level test.
• Students in High School must not under any
  circumstance take more than 1 opportunity.

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OAKS Extended Assessments

• Reading Math 1 opportunity at grades
• 3 8, and 10.
• Science 1 opportunity at grades 5, 8, and 10.
• Writing 1 opportunity at grades 4, 7, and 10.

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OAKS General Review

• The Assessment options generally are the same
  this year as last year
• ELPA will be integrated into OAKS Online
• Oaks Online Writing will be available to all H.S.
  students, but a H.S. student only has 1 writing
  opportunity.

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School Test Coordinator Role

• STCs may set school test schedules for OAKS tests
  (Online, Paper/Pencil, and Writing) in
  collaboration with DTCs.
• STCs must coordinate determination of appropriate
  assessment options for students.
• STCs must coordinate secure storage,
  distribution, and inventory of paper test
  materials for the school.
• STCs help code students who do not test because
  they were not enrolled during the school test
  window using Administration Code 8 in student
  centered staging.
• May not Set school test schedules for Extended
  Assessments or the ELPA.

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School Test Coordinators Role

• STCs coordinate determination of appropriate
  assessment options for students.
• STCs assist DTCs in ensuring that all test
  administrators receive test administration and
  security training.
• STCs ensure security of paper test materials
  before, during, and after testing.

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Test Administrators

• TAs must read the 2009-10 Test Administration
  Manual, receive annual test administration and
  security training, and sign an Assurance of Test
  Security form before administering state tests.
• TAs may only provide upon request students with
  allowable resources listed by content area in the
  2009-10 Test Administration Manual Appendices.
• TAs may only provide the version of allowable
  resources provided by ODE. These are posted
  online at
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?2346
• TAs must read verbatim the student directions
  provided by content area in the 2009-10 Test
  Administration Manual Appendices.
• TAs must sign the Test Security form in order to
  administer tests.

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Test Administrators

• TAs may not allow untrained aides, volunteers, or
  substitutes to assist with test administration.
• TAs may not coach students (including requiring
  students to show their work).
• Students may not access non-allowable resources
  such as textbooks or class notes
• Students must not talk to or help other students
  during testing.

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Test Administrators

• TA reviews the Test Administration Manual before
  testing, focusing on test security and
  content-specific allowable resources and
  accommodations.
• TA spaces students appropriately or provides
  visual barriers to prevent students from seeing
  others tests.
• TA reads student directions verbatim and
  circulates through test environment to ensure
  proper testing conditions.
• TA makes available but does not require students
  to use allowable resources.

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Test Administrators Review

• TAs must receive training each year
• TAs enforce valid test environment for students
• When in doubt about a particular testing
  practice
• Check the Manual
• Check your training notes
• Ask your School Test Coordinator
• If all else fails, assume the answer is no

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Test Security

• Purpose To protect the integrity and
  confidentiality of secure test items, prompts,
  and passages. The security of these materials is
  necessary so that they can be used in later years
  to measure trends in performance. In addition,
  test security helps to ensure test results can be
  used in accountability reporting
• Definition A test impropriety is any instance
  where a test is not administered in a manner
  consistent with the Test Administration Manual or
  OAR 581-022-0610 Administration of State Tests

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Secure Testing Environment

• A quiet environment, void of distractions and
  supervised by a trained test administrator
• Visual barriers or adequate spacing between
  students
• Student access to only allowable resources
• All paper test materials collected and accounted
  for after each testing event
• Student data is treated as confidential

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Secure Testing Environment

• Mathematics symbols (including s) can not be
  read aloud
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• Test Administrators may not explicitly or
  implicitly direct a student to identify reasons
  or strategies used to determine test answers, nor
  otherwise provide instructional or learning
  strategies for guidance during the assessment
  process (see Administration Manual for examples
  of Allowable Resources)
• Any teacher review or analysis of test items
  constitutes a breach in test security both
  districts and teachers are responsible
• Do not score the tests or otherwise give students
  any feedback as to how well you believe they are
  performing

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Secure Testing Environment

• TAs must ensure that students use the correct
  SSID and take the correct test.
• TAs must securely shred test materials such as
  reading passages, scratch paper, or other paper
  hand-outs written on by students after each
  testing event
• Test materials must be securely stored at all
  times
• Test improprieties must be reported to ODE within
  1 day of learning of them and the investigation
  must be completed within 30 days.
• If a DTC can not investigate an impropriety, the
  district must assign someone else to the task

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Secure Testing Environment

• TAs must not review or analyze secure test items
• Students must not access non-allowable resources
  such as cell phones, iPods, or e-mail
• Students must not remove test materials from the
  test environment
• TAs must not copy or retain any test materials,
  including secure test booklets, writing prompts,
  or reading passages
• DTCs, STCs, and TAs must not share their UMS
  log-in information with anyone (even other
  authorized UMS users)

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Security Suggestions

• Using colorful materials to identify which
  students have printed reading passages remaining
  at their stations
• When setting up the test environment, the TA
  should ensure that the TAs computer is set to
  print in the computer lab where the students are
  testing.
• The TA uses the class roster to mark which
  students received printed reading passages and
  then matches the class roster to the printed
  reading passages collected at the end of the
  testing event to account for all printed reading
  passages

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Security Review

• Test materials must be inventoried and securely
  stored both before and after each testing event.
• Only authorized staff who have signed an
  Assurance of Test Security Form may have access
  to secure test materials.
• Scratch paper and all other printed materials
  written on by students during testing must be
  collected and securely shredded at the end of
  each testing event.
• DTCs must report all test improprieties to ODE
  within 1 day of learning of them. Report form is
  available at

www.ode.state.or.us/go/testsecurity
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Needed Login InformationFrom Appendix H
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Test Administration Procedures

• Oregon assessment tests are NOT timed tests
• Students should be allowed to continue working as
  long as they are making reasonable progress
• Administering the test in smaller segments is an
  acceptable practice (remember test security)
• Providing less time than indicated by the
  guidelines in the Test Administration Manual is
  an extreme disadvantage to students
• If a student rushes through the test, this will
  be counted as one of their opportunities. Test
  Administrators must monitor student progress to
  reduce this risk.

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Breaking Up the Test

• If you know you will be administering the test in
  multiple sessions, remind students before they
  begin testing that they will be resuming the test
  at another date/time
• When students resume a test, the test will start
  on the same number/passage where he/she
  previously stopped
• If a student pauses an OAKS Online test for 20
  minutes or more, the student will not be able to
  return to previously answered or marked
  questions.
• When resuming a test, Test Administrators should
  review the process and re-read the student
  directions.

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Student Readiness for Testing

• Familiarize students with test format by allowing
  them to take Sample/Practice Tests, if available
• Explain to students that the purpose of the
  assessment is to measure your current progress
  on state content standards and remind them that
  I cant help you with reading passages, test
  questions, test answers or formulas.
• Encourage students to do their best

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Accommodations Overview

• Accommodation a change in how a test is
  presented to or responded to by a student.
• Provides the student equal access and equal
  opportunity to demonstrate proficiency.
• Is considered standard administration students
  have the opportunity to meet or exceed the
  standard.
• Should be consistent with support provided during
  individual students instruction.
• Braille and large print paper/pencil tests are
  available.
• Listed at www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?487

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Extended Assessments

• Extended assessments must be identified on a
  students IEP
• IEP teams should determine whether the student
  would be best served by the standard or
  scaffolded extended assessment
• Results will be included in AYP calculations
• Only qualified assessors should administer
  extended assessments

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ELPA - English Language Proficiency Assessment

• Enrolled after May 1, 2010 only ELPA
• Enrolled May 2, 2009 to May 1, 2010 ELPA and
  OAKS Math Science
• Enrolled before May 2, 2009 must take ELPA and
  all other OAKS tests

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English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA)

• 1 opportunity for grade bands
• K 1, 2 3, 4 5, 6 8, and 9 12.
• ELPA will be integrated into OAKS Online.

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DIBELS, Maze Common Math
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Writing Test Schedule

• Grades 4, 7, HS students Paper Pencil
• January 11- February 26
• For HS students only April 12 30
• Online Writing for HS students
• January 11 to April 30
• Students in High School must not under any
  circumstance take more than 1 opportunity.

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Essential Skills

• Class of 2012 Sophomores must read comprehend
  variety of text.
• Class or 2013 Freshman must do above and write
  clearly and accurately
• Class of 2014 8th grade must do above and apply
  mathematics in variety of settings

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Work Sample Requirements

• The change in the law does not go into effect
  until July 1, 2008
• For writing, speaking, and mathematics problem
  solving, students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8
  must complete one work sample scored with the
  state scoring guide, meeting the performance
  standard.
• Students at the CIM level must complete 2 work
  samples from different strands (SRCs 3, 4, or 5)
  in mathematics problem solving and 3 samples in
  writing (one persuasive, one expository AND one
  imaginative or narrative). In speaking, CIM
  students must complete 3 samples (one persuasive,
  one informative, and one unrehearsed).

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Work Sample Requirements

• For scientific inquiry, students in grades 3 8
  and at the CIM level must complete one work
  sample, scored in the required dimensions.
• For social science analysis, students in grades
  6 8 and at the CIM level may complete one work
  sample, scored in the required dimensions. To
  earn the Social Sciences Endorsement, students
  must complete one work sample scored with the
  state scoring guide, meeting the performance
  standard.
• The phase in schedule for science work samples
  can be found at http//www.ode.state.or.us/search
  /page/?id518
• The phase in schedule for social sciences work
  samples can be found at http//www.ode.state.or.u
  s/search/page/?id34

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Questions?