This is the Assessment & Accountability Update  for March 15, 2012.
You can access this and past issues of the A & A Update on the ODE website.
In This Issue:
- Extended Assessment Alerts
- Essential Skills Updates
- Message from the Superintendent: Braille Testing
Administration
- Refresher Test Administrator Training
- OAKS Online and ELPA testing will remain open on the state
furlough day, Friday, March 23
- OAKS Online Test Delivery System Offline March 28-30; OAKS Online Reporting Offline March 30
- Reduced Testing Opportunities for 2012-2013
- No Content or Cut Score Changes for OAKS in 2012-2013
Accountability
- ELPA January 2012 Test Scores Now Available
Writing
- Online Writing Test Windows: Winter Closes and Spring Opens
- Spring Paper-Based Writing Order Window Closes March 19
Transition to Common Core Standard Assessment in 2014-2015
- Transition Suggestions: Movement from Assessing Oregon’s
2000 Standards to Oregon’s Common Core State Standards
- Stay Connected to the Smarter Balanced Assessment
Consortium
- Smarter Balanced Item Specifications Final Review Open
through March 16
- Common Core State Standards Progress Report
- State Readiness Tool Data Collection Opens April 2
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