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Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Retention of Work Samples for Essential Skills
Monday, 7 December 2009
MEMORANDUM NO. 007-2009-10 – Assessment of Essential Skills Options for LEP Students
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Local Performance Assessments vs Work Samples
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Reading Scoring Guide Approved for Essential Skills

A work sample is a representative sample of individual student work (e.g., research paper, statistical experiment, speaking presentation) that is scored using an official state scoring guide (i.e., writing, speaking, mathematics problem solving, scientific inquiry, and social science analysis). Since 2000, the State Board of Education has identified the number and types of work samples that local school districts were to collect and score. When the State Board approved OAR 581-022-0615 Assessment of Essential Skills in June 2008, they provided for the continued use of work samples under the new graduation requirements. Under the new OAR, students may use work samples to meet both the Essential Skills graduation requirement and the annual local performance assessment requirement.

	Reading Reading work sample and scoring guide resources		Math Math work sample and scoring guide resources
	Writing Writing work sample and scoring guide resources		Science Science work sample and scoring guide resources
	Speaking Speaking work sample and scoring guide resources		Social Sciences Social sciences work sample and scoring guide resources
	Essential Skills (ES) Information on work samples and the Essential Skills.		Additional Resources More work sample resources