Preparation of Test Items

• Item Classification Event (December 7 and 8, 2010).
  ODE convened Oregon educators, including classroom teachers, content experts, teachers for the visually impaired, and Braillists to review Oregon’s OAKS Reading, Mathematics, Science, and Social Sciences item pools and identify those items suitable for Braille transcription.
• Agenda   07/12/2011 (902 KB)
• Categorizing Test Items   07/13/2011 (4.40 MB)
• Participant Feedback Summary   07/13/2011 (63.50 KB)
  
  
  

• Item Writing Event (December 20 – 22, 2010).
  ODE convened Oregon educators, including classroom teachers and content experts to develop additional items suitable for Braille transcription to ensure a sufficient number of items to assess the full depth and breadth of Oregon’s assessed content standards. Braillists and teachers for the visually impaired advised ODE during this work.
• Agenda   07/12/2011 (24 KB)
• Braille Item Writing   07/13/2011 (5.01 MB)
• Participant Feedback   07/13/2011 (26.50 KB)
  
  
  

• Implementation Planning Event (March 1 and 2, 2011).
  ODE and its test vendor, American Institutes for Research (AIR) convened ODE’s stakeholders, including classroom teachers, content experts, teachers for the visually impaired, Braillists, and partners from the Oregon Textbook and Media Center, the Oregon Commission for the Blind, and the American Printing House for the Blind, to inform the decision on how best to deliver OAKS Online to students who use Braille.
• Agenda   07/12/2011 (55.50 KB)
• Introduction   07/13/2011 (2.65 MB)
• 2011-12 Braille Mental Picture   07/13/2011 (1.04 MB)
• Math Presentation   07/13/2011 (936.50 KB)
• Braille Transcription   07/13/2011 (767.50 KB)
• Text-to-Speech   07/13/2011 (745.50 KB)
• May Pilot   07/13/2011 (675.50 KB)
• Summary of Decisions and Next Steps   07/13/2011 (29.50 KB)
  
  
  

• Tagging Training Event (April 12 and 13, 2011).
  ODE and its test vendor, American Institutes for Research (AIR) convened Oregon educators, including classroom teachers, content experts, Braillists, and Spanish experts to train them on creating alternate text tags for Oregon’s items to support a computer-based read-aloud accommodation for all students and Braille and audio presentation for students who use Braille.
• Agenda   07/12/2011 (31 KB)
• Introduction   07/13/2011 (1.19 MB)
• Item Tagging and Review Sequence   07/13/2011 (256.50 KB)
• Tagging Business Rules   07/13/2011 (570 KB)
  
  
  

• Spanish Tagging Training Event (June 21 and 22, 2011).
  ODE convened its Spanish expert reviewers to train them on creating Spanish alternate text tags for Oregon’s items to support a computer-based read-aloud accommodation for students taking the English-Spanish side-by-side version of OAKS Online.
• Agenda   07/12/2011 (54.50 KB)
  
  
  

• Assessment Development

• Holly Carter     (503) 947-5739
  Assessment and Accountability - Ops & Policy Analyst