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Essential Skills Beginning in 2012, students must demonstrate proficiency in identified essential skills. The essential skills are process skills that cross academic disciplines and are embedded in the content standards. The skills are not content specific and can be applied in a variety of courses, subjects, and settings. Specific Essential Skills graduation requirements are based on the year the student first enrolled
in Grade 9, as shown below:



  • Enrolled in Grade 9 in 2008-09: Read and comprehend a variety of text
  • Enrolled in Grade 9 in 2009-10: Read and comprehend a variety of text; Write clearly and accurately
  • Enrolled in Grade 9 in 2010-11 and beyond: Read and comprehend a variety of text; Write clearly and accurately; Apply mathematics in a variety of settings

The remaining Essential Skills will be phased-in over subsequent years, timeline to be determined.



Essential Skills and Work Samples


  • Essential Skills Professional Development Materials
    Oregon Department of Education has developed training materials on scoring student work samples to demonstrate proficiency in the Essential Skills for graduation requirements and local assessment purposes. For each subject and grade level there is a workshop sequence design that you will be able to download workshop materials for local facilitators to use in leading workshops at the school, district or regional level.
  • Work Samples    
    Work Samples scored using an Official State Scoring Guide are approved assessment options for the Essential Skills of Reading, Writing and Mathematics.
  • Scoring Guides    
    A scoring guide is an asessment tool used to judge the quality of student performance in relation to content standards. In order to use work samples as assessment options, they must be scored using Official State Scoring Guides.
  • DISCS  External Link  
    The Dynamic Integrated Scoring Calibration System (DISCS) is an online scoring guide training tool designed to aid educators in calibrating to the Oregon Official State Scoring Guides in the Essential Skills of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics.



Contacts
  • Derek Brown Email    (503) 947-5841
    Assessment and Accountability - Manager, Assessment of Essential Skills

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