• Wednesday, 3 April 2013
  Opportunity to Contribute to Assessment Policy
• Wednesday, 6 March 2013
  Update to Appendix K: Assessment of Essential Skills
• Wednesday, 6 March 2013
  New Essential Skills Case Study Now Available

• 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

• Essential Skills Report 2011-2012   01/30/2013 (538 KB)
  The Essential Skills Report provides information regarding the assessment options used by students who entered high school during the 2008-2009 school year (“Class of 2012”) to meet the Essential Skill of Reading requirement. The State Board of Education has approved a number of assessment options students can use to meet the Essential Skills graduation requirements, which include the state test (OAKS), other standardized tests, and work samples.
  
  
  
• Essential Skills Definitions   06/15/2011 (53.90 KB)
  The Essential Skills, as part of the Oregon Diploma requirements, were adopted by the State Board of Education in June of 2008. Below are brief summaries for each of the Essential Skills with their key implementation resources.
  • The Essential Skill of Reading   08/13/2012 (261.03 KB)
  • The Essential Skill of Writing   11/15/2012 (334.86 KB)
  • The Essential Skill of "Apply Math"   10/02/2012 (318.16 KB)
    
• Assessment of Essential Skills Review Panel (AESRP)    
  This page includes a variety of information about the Assessment of Essential Skills Review Panel and its work.
• Assessment of Essential Skills Toolkit    
  The Assessment of Essential Skills Toolkit is a web-based interactive planning system. The Toolkit will help districts and high schools develop a local plan for assessing the Essential Skills by guiding them through a series of 10 Steps. After completing the steps in the Toolkit, each user may use the information to create a plan for their district.
• Frequently Asked Questions about the Assessment of Essential Skills   09/29/2011 (107.09 KB)
  
  
• Essential Skills Assessment Options   10/15/2012 (98.48 KB)
  This document describes the options for demonstrating proficiency in the Essential Skills.
• Test Administration Manual for 2012-2013   02/28/2013 (1.05 MB)
  
  • Appendix K - Requirements for Assessment of Essential Skills   02/28/2013 (370.46 KB)
  • Appendix L - Local Performance Assessments   07/27/2012 (83.17 KB)
  • Appendix M - Work Samples and State Scoring Guides   07/27/2012 (160.26 KB)
    
• Essential Skill Assessments for ELL, OAR 581-022-0617   12/14/2010 (49 KB)
  

Essential Skills and Work Samples

• Work Samples: Case Study of Strategies and Practices from Nine Districts   02/28/2013 (1012.72 KB)

• 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    
  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.
  
  

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