Common Core State Standards - Alternate Assessment

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Common Core State Standards - Alternate Assessment

Oregon, with the Partner and other Affiliated States and NCSC staff, is implementing the summative, interim, and formative alternate assessment for mathematics and English language arts beginning in the 2014-2015 school year. Through the 2013-2014 school year Oregon students’ OAKS alternate assessments will continue to be linked to the 2003 English Language Arts content standards and 2007/2009 Mathematics content standards.

NCSC Consortium
The NCSC Assessment Consortium is a collection of more than 24 Partner and Affiliated states and five centers that have been working collaboratively since 2010 to develop an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards system aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

NCSC Resources
The resources and documents on this page are designed to assist districts and schools to better understand this project--building an alternate assessment based on alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities—and the goal of ensuring these students achieve increasingly higher academic outcomes and leave high school ready for post-secondary options.

General

Oregon: Tier II Affiliated State Status
Per Oregon’s 2010 adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and its commitment to the outcomes of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)--to ensure instruction is aligned to the CCSS and subsequent alternate assessments are reliable, valid, and can be used for accountability purposes--the Oregon Department of Education has joined the National Center and State Collaborative (NCSC) alternate assessment consortium as a Tier II affiliate state.

Statewide Assessments & Essential Skills Transition Plan PDF

This document provides a description of the transition from OAKS and OAKS Extended to the new statewide assessments based on Common Core State Standards and the impact on Essential Skills graduation requirements.

Resources

Common Core State Standards and Students with Disabilities
Students with diverse needs must be challenged to excel within the general curriculum and be prepared for success in their post-school lives. The implementation of the CCSS provides an historic opportunity to improve access to rigorous academic content standards for students with diverse needs. The documents on these pages provide all educators with resources that focus on the differentiated instruction of students with special needs. Educators should continue to reference the resources available on other CCSS pages for content-specific information.

Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium: Support for Underrepresented Students
The Smarter Balanced assessment system will provide accurate measures of achievement and growth for students with disabilities and English language learners. The assessments will address visual, auditory, and physical access barriers—as well as the unique needs of English language learners—allowing virtually all students to demonstrate what they know and can do.

Frequently Asked Questions PDF

The attached is a working version of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the NCSC Summative Alternate Assessment. We understand the FAQs on NCSC’s curriculum, instruction, professional development, and communication initiatives will be finalized in the next weeks. You can share this information freely at this point, but we understand from NCSC that they will be revising the contents into audience specific materials moving forward. We will date and update these as their iterative development processes dictate.

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