• Essential Skills Manual
• Proficiency in the Essential Skills required for a high school diploma in Oregon. Options List and FAQS
• ODE's Webpage for all Official State Scoring Guides for Local Performance Assessment Requirements

SMARTER BALANCED / OAKS GENERAL INFORMATION

• ODE 18/19 Combine Annual Notice & Parent Opt-Out Forms for 18/19: English / Spanish
• How to report an Impropriety
• GreatSchools State Test Guide for Parents
• Online Sample Tests: The place to have your students practice to identify any accommodations a student may need
• OAKS Portal: The starting place for all online assessment needs
• OAKS TA User Guide: Test Administrator User Guide
• TIDE User Guide: The how-to of using the TIDE system
• Online Reporting System User Guide
• Read Aloud Guidelines for the Test Reader

GRADE LEVEL ASSESSMENT and CCSS RESOURCES

Included below are website links to many ELA and Math assessment resources. This collection of assessment resources supports teaching and learning in our schools at each of the grade levels. There are multiple purposes for how this assessment collection could be used by our schools including support for formative, interim, and summative assessment types.

Janis Heigl Resources

• Resources - Includes both Math and ELA Resources to support CCSS grade level standards, adoption resources, instructional support resources, as well as CCSS Instruction and Assessment Resources.
• Janis Heigl - Common Core Aligned Practic Assessments
• Charlotte Hartman - Mathematics Services and Resources

SMARTER BALANCE INFO

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SMARTER BALANCE INFO

• FAQs: Sample Items and Performance Tasks
• ELA and Math Smarter Balanced Sample Summative Items for Teachers
• SB Practice Questions from Hawaii Public Schools
• Sample Items from Smarter Balanced: One PDF per Grade Level
• Approved Achievement Level Recommendations
• Claims for the Mathematic Summative Assessment
• Claims for the English Language Arts/Literacy Summative Assessment
• Building Educator Assessment Literacy (BEAL) - Oregon project focusing on the role of the performace assessment in a balanced assessment system.