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Sep 11 2013 5:05PM

As districts prepare to provide school test coordinators and test administrators with test administration and security training for 2013-14, ODE has released a 2012-13 Test Impropriety Trends Report identifying trends in reported test improprieties. ...

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Dec 12 2012 4:54PM

In the December 6, 2012 edition of the Assessment & Accountability Update, ODE announced that OAKS Online would be offline for scheduled maintenance from 5:00 p.m. on December 17 through 7:00 a.m. on January 1. ODE has since received feedback fro...

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Dec 6 2012 8:56AM

The TA and Student Interface of OAKS Online will be offline for scheduled maintenance starting at 5:00 pm PT on Monday, December 17, 2012 until 7:00 am PT on January 1, 2013. During this time, the Training Site, TIDE, and the Online Reporting System ...

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Nov 28 2012 1:42PM

OAKS Online and ELPA testing will remain open on state furlough days, Friday, January 18, 2013 and Friday, April 19, 2013. Contact(s) for this Announcement Regional ESD Support Partners

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Oct 4 2012 1:35PM

Welcome Back! The Office of Assessment and Information Systems (OAIS) have developed new Assessment Updates for the 2012-2013 school year. These one page handouts are available for English Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Sciences (ELPA will ...

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Jun 14 2012 3:03PM

Oregon’s 2012-2014 Mathematics, Reading & Literature, Science, and Social Sciences Test Specifications and Blueprints have been updated and are now posted on the ODE website at: www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=496. Many more Mathematics s...

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Apr 12 2012 12:34PM

On Friday, April 13 AIR will add a new tool to the diagnostic tests offered through the OAKS Online Portal that allows users to evaluate whether they have adequate bandwidth for the number of students they plan to test. Users will be able to select a...

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Mar 14 2012 2:49PM

As the 2011-12 testing window enters full swing, districts should be sure to review key test security requirements with test administrators, including test administrators for the OAKS, ELPA, Writing, and the Extended Assessments. As the Braille Inter...

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Mar 7 2012 4:37PM

As of March 5, 2012, sixty-nine school districts have reported test improprieties. The table below shows the breakdown of reported improprieties by type, identifying whether the impropriety was initiated by an adult or by a student. Type of ...

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Feb 13 2012 2:48PM

ODE currently supports up to 3 annual test opportunities per student in Reading, Math, and Science and 2 opportunities in Social Sciences. Starting in 2014-15, Oregon will begin administering the Common Assessment in Math and English Language Arts de...

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Feb 2 2012 2:13PM

The OAKS Online Test Delivery System, including both operational and practice tests for OAKS, ELPA, and Online Writing, will be offline for maintenance beginning at 6:30 p.m. PT on Friday, February 3. The system will be back online by 7:00 a.m. PT on...

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Jan 11 2012 4:51PM

On Wednesday, January 11, ODE introduced additional test items into the OAKS Online assessments. For those districts with policies allowing for students to take multiple test opportunities, this means that students may now retest. ODE supports up to ...

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Jan 4 2012 9:40AM

Stakeholders - including IT Managers, the Assessment Advisory Committee, and the ELPA Content Panel - provided feedback in regard to benefits and risks associated with student use of mobile devices for taking summative assessments like OAKS Online or...

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Jan 4 2012 9:37AM

On December 1, 2011 ODE presented the draft Best Practices Guide to the State Board of Education for the Board’s consideration. The updated Best Practices Guide will be presented to the Board for formal adoption on January 19, 2012. In response to st...

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Dec 15 2011 8:15AM

The Assessment & Accountability Update for December 15, 2011 is now available. You can access this and past issues of the Assessment & Accountability Update on the ODE website. In This Issue: OAKS Online Scheduled Down Ti...

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Dec 14 2011 11:46AM

Oregon’s new Social Sciences content standards are organized under six strands: History, Geography, Civics and Government, Economics, Financial Literacy, and Social Science Analysis at each grade in K-8 and for high school. The core and grade-level c...

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Dec 7 2011 9:41AM

The 2011-12 OAKS Online testing window opened on November 8, 2011. In the first month of testing, school districts have reported a total of twenty-three test improprieties impacting fifty student tests. The table below shows the breakdown of reported...

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Nov 30 2011 2:43PM

The OAKS Test Delivery System (TDS) will be offline for scheduled maintenance from 11:59 p.m. on Friday, December 18 through 11:59 p.m. on Monday, January 2. During this time, the Training Site, TIDE, and the Online Reporting System will remain avail...

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Nov 30 2011 2:31PM

As of November 28, 2011 the following number of tests have been started and reported by subject: Math Reading Science Social Sciences Started 17,905 41,474 7,066 205 Reported 14,236 31,163 6,607 191 Contact(...

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Nov 10 2011 9:00AM

The Assessment & Accountability Update for November 10, 2011 is now available. You can access this and past issues of the Assessment & Accountability Update on the ODE website. In This Issue: Draft Best Practices Guide fo...

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Nov 9 2011 10:41AM

Welcome Rachel Aazzareh to the Department of Education. Rachel is the new Science and Social Sciences Assessment Specialist at the Oregon Department of Education. Rachel previously worked for Monument School District for three years as the 7th-1...

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Oct 6 2011 10:06AM

The Assessment & Accountability Update for October 6, 2011 is now available. You can access this and past issues of the Assessment & Accountability Update on the ODE website. In This Issue: Out-of-District Assessment Scor...

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Sep 29 2011 8:56AM

The Assessment & Accountability Update for September 29, 2011 is now available. You can access this and past issues of the Assessment & Accountability Update on the ODE website. In This Issue: First Period Cumulative ADM ...

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Sep 21 2011 1:13PM

The editing window for 2010-2011 Science, Writing, Social Sciences, and ELPA records will close on September 30, 2010 at 11:59 PM. All 2010-2011 test records will be read-only after September 30. Contact(s) for this Announcement Regional...

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Sep 14 2011 9:11AM

The OAKS Portal provides users with access to both a training site for test administrators and practice tests accessible to both test administrators and students. Practice tests are available for OAKS Online Reading, Math, Science, and Social Science...

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Sep 14 2011 9:07AM

The 2011-12 Test Specifications and Blueprints for OAKS Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Social Sciences are currently available at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=496. These documents contain sample items, achievement level descriptors ...

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May 25 2011 3:35PM

OAKS Online testing was completed on Monday, May 23, 2011. Starting on May 24, the OAKS Online Test Administration Application and Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) are no longer available to OAKS users. OAKS Online Reports, the Pract...

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May 19 2011 11:49AM

To better enable districts to complete testing prior to the close of the OAKS Online test window on Monday, May 23, OAKS Online will be available on Friday, May 20. ODE had previously communicated that OAKS Online would be unavailable for testing on ...

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Mar 16 2011 12:55PM

OAKS testing will be available on Friday, March 18. This includes a one-day extension to the winter Online Writing test window for Grade 7 and high school. The updated test schedule is posted at http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/sched...

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Sep 29 2010 2:42PM

The editing window for 2009-2010 Science, Writing, Social Sciences, and ELPA records will close on September 30, 2010 at 11:59 PM. All 2009-2010 test records will be read-only after September 30.

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Jul 1 2010 1:06PM

The testing schedule for the 2010-11 school year has been posted at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/wma/teachlearn/testing/schedules/testschd_1011_final.pdf Students in grades 3-8 and high school are required to be tested at eligible grades in th...

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Apr 1 2010 1:35PM

In the April 2010 Social Sciences Teacher Update you will read about professional development opportunities, teacher and student competitions and awards, and much more. To learn about subscribing to the Social Sciences Teacher Update, please visit th...

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Oct 12 2009 10:25AM

OAKS Online test records for 2009-2010 are currently available for download and editing in Student Centered Staging. New records are transferred to ODE daily and will typically be available in Staging two days after the tests are completed. Be s...

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Aug 12 2009 3:21PM

ODE will be presenting up-to-date information on the application of Work Samples for the Essential Skills Graduation Requirement and the Local Performance Assessment Requirement through two Web-ex seminars. Interested participants can register to att...

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May 20 2009 4:00PM

This is the Assessment & Accountability Update for May 20, 2009. In This Issue OAKS Online Test Window Closes Friday OAKS Extended Assessment Window Closes New Communications Coordinator Video Training: Adequate Yearly Progress & Other Re...

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May 20 2009 3:34PM

Reminder: The OAKS Online Test Window closes on Friday, May 22. Starting on May 23, the OAKS Online test sites and User Management System (UMS) will no longer be available to OAKS users. The Practice Test and Training sites will remain availabl...

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Apr 30 2009 10:11AM

This is the Assessment & Accountability Update for April 27, 2009. This issue contains important information about ELPA testing, NAEP Social Sciences Assessments in 2010, Data Collections opening May 1, Extended Assessment Testing And Data Entr...

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Apr 30 2009 9:53AM

In 2010, NAEP will assess 4th, 8th and 12th graders in U.S. history, civics, and geography. The national results from the assessment will inform education leaders and the general public about what U.S. students know and can do in the social sciences....

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Feb 18 2009 1:30PM

As an assessment tool, scoring guides provide specific criteria to describe a range of possible student responses and a consistent set of guidelines to rate student work. Scoring guides can be used to provide: feedback about student progress towar...

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Nov 19 2008 8:40AM

Test records from completed OAKS Online tests will be available in Student Centered Staging on Friday, November 21. Contact(s) for this Announcement Regional Assessment Support Partners

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Oct 2 2008 1:08PM

In the October 2008 Social Sciences Teacher Update you will read about professional development opportunities, teacher and student competitions and awards, and much more. To learn about subscribing to the Social Sciences Teacher Update, please visit t...

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Jul 10 2008 8:53AM

The 2008-09 Administration Manual will be posted to the ODE website on August 1. District Test Coordinators are required to review and be familiar with this manual. ODE will not be printing Administration Manuals for districts, so District Test Coo...

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Jun 18 2008 1:17PM

The testing schedule for the 2008-09 school year has been posted to http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/testing/oaks/testschd_0809_final.pdf .

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Jun 18 2008 1:15PM

OAKS Online high school assessments in mathematics and reading - plus the writing performance assessment -- will have an additional purpose next year. Each of these assessments will be available for 9th graders ready to see if they can yet demonstra...

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May 16 2008 2:54PM

This is the Assessment & Accountability Update for May 14, 2008. This weeks topics include a PSAT/NMSQT Update, OAKS Online/TESA Roster Reports, Pre-Preliminary AYP, Testing Deadlines, Spring Student Membership, Upcoming AYP V-Tel, Alternate Standa...

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May 7 2008 12:39PM

Due to high testing volumes there has been some delay in the transfer of student test scores to the OAKS Online Reports Module. Test scores should appear in the OAKS Online Reports Module no later than four hours after a test is completed. This delay...

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May 5 2008 9:51AM

This is the Assessment & Accountability Update - Retrospective Edition. This edition contains important reminders and key dates from news published during the past few months.

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Mar 31 2008 3:14PM

This is the Assessment & Accountability Update for March 31, 2008. This edition includes articles about the PSAT/NMSQT Test, the Essential Skills Assessments, ELPA, the third OAKS Online/TESA opportunity (second for Social Sciences), additional IP ad...

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Mar 31 2008 2:22PM

Students taking the optional OAKS Online/TESA social sciences will have two testing opportunities. The first testing opened January 9; the second begins April 1. Contact(s) for this Announcement Regional Assessment Support Partners

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Mar 10 2008 12:00AM

Side-by-side Russian/English paper-pencil tests in mathematics and science are now available for secure download from Educational Data Systems (EDS). Most districts have pre-ordered Spanish/English side-by-side tests if they are using the paper-pen...

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Mar 10 2008 12:00AM

Student directions for Spanish/English tests in Social Sciences have been added to OAKS Online/TESA Test Administration page. They are located at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=486. Spanish/English Social Science tests are only available...

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Mar 6 2008 4:26PM

We have received word from AIR that all new tests on OAKS Online/TESA will have a 90 day expiration period, rather than the previous 45 day limit. In addition, all tests that were in progress have been extended to allow a total of 90 days from the star...

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Feb 29 2008 3:54PM

Updates have been made to the Accommodations Table which is posted at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=487 and to the Modifications Table which is posted at http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=540. You and your staff will want to review...

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Sep 4 2007 12:00AM

So that we can more efficiently meet the needs of school districts needing help and direction with assessment and reporting, we have contracted with three of the Educational Service Districts (ESDs) to provide these services to districts. Willamette E...