Essential Skills (Required for DTCs, Recommended for STCs)

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Essential Skills(Required for DTCs, Recommended
for STCs)
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Essential Skills

• Objectives
• Review Requirements and Implementation Timeline
• Understand Assessment Options
• Describe Resources Available

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Essential Skill Overview
Essential Skills

• 9 cross-curricular skills
• Embedded in State Content Standards
• Students must demonstrate proficiency
• 3 currently scheduled for implementation
  Reading, Writing, Math

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Implementation
Essential Skills

• Essential Skills graduation requirements are
  based on when a student is first enrolled in
  grade 9 (cohort year)
• Cohort year 2008-2009 Reading
• Cohort year 2009-2010 Reading and Writing
• Cohort year 2010-2011 Reading, Writing, Apply
  Mathematics

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Assessment Options
Essential Skills
Test Reading Math Writing
OAKS 236 236 40
ACT or Plan 18 19 N/A
WorkKeys 5 5 N/A
Compass 81 66 (Int Alg) N/A
Asset 42 41 (Int Alg) N/A
SAT 440 450 N/A
PSAT 44 45 N/A
AP/IB Various Various N/A
SAT Writing N/A N/A 460
Accuplacer 86 N/A N/A
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Work Sample Requirements
Essential Skills
ESSENTIAL SKILL WORK SAMPLES REQUIRED SCORE (OFFICIAL SCORING GUIDE)
Reading 2 Work Samples two informational, or one informational and one literary Total 12 (3 traits) No score lower than 3
Writing 2 Work Samples expository, persuasive, narrative modes (one must be in expository or persuasive mode, the second may be in any of the approved modes). 4 on each of the four required traits
Apply math 2 Work Samples algebra, geometry, statistics strands choose 2 of the 3 strands 4 on each of the four traits plus accuracy.
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Work Sample Rigor
Essential Skills

• Work samples must meet the level of rigor
  required on the OAKS assessment.
• Work samples provide an optional means to
  demonstrate proficiency not an easier means.

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Professional Development
Essential Skills

• Scoring Guide Training Modules
• Train-the-trainer modules and materials now
  available on the website for local use
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?3623
• DISCS
• Online scoring guide calibration tool that allows
  raters to self-evaluate their level of
  proficiency and continue training as necessary
• http//discs.orvsd.org/

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Promising Practices
Essential Skills

• Ensure an adequate number of staff are proficient
  in using the scoring guides
• Familiarize students with the scoring guides
  early
• Score classroom assignments for Essential Skill
  proficiency
• Score multi-disciplinary projects for more than
  one Essential Skill
• Develop prompts that can be used at the local
  and/or regional level
• Develop a local or regional work sample scoring
  infrastructure that allows for a sharing of
  workload

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Essential Skills
Promising Considerations

• Districts should develop a policy for retention
  of student performance data and work samples
• Districts must develop a process allowing
  students to appeal a district decision to deny a
  diploma based on the Essential Skills graduation
  requirement.

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Reporting
Essential Skills

• Essential Skills graduation requirements are
  submitted through the Cum ADM collection
• Essential Skills graduation requirements are
  applied to regular and modified diplomas (for
  those students with a cohort year associated with
  requirement(s)
• See the Cum ADM manual for specific reporting
  codes

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In a Nutshell
Essential Skills

• Required Essential Skills
• Reading 2008-2009 cohort (Class of 2012)
• Reading Writing 2009-2010 cohort (Class of
  2013)
• Reading, Writing Math 2010-2011 cohort (Class
  of 2014)
• Approved Methods of Assessment
• OAKS
• Other Approved Standardized Tests
• Work Samples

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Resources
Essential Skills

• Assessment of Essential Skills
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id2042
• Assessment of Essential Skills Toolkit Toolkit
• http//estoolkit.orvsd.org/
• Work Samples
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id219
• The Oregon Diploma
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id368
• The Essential Skills Appendix
• http//www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing
  /admin/2011-12_appendix-k.pdf

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Acorns for Storage
Essential Skills

• Which courses are responsible for Essential
  Skills Assessment in our school?
• Who has the key responsibilities in assessing the
  Essential Skills?
• What is our procedure for keeping track of
  student progress toward demonstrating each
  required Essential Skill?
• How can elementary and middle schools prepare
  students for the
• Essential Skills?