ESSENTIAL SKILLS

(REQUIRED FOR DTCS, RECOMMENDED FOR STCS)

Objectives Understand Essential Skills Graduation

Requirement

Understand Essential Skills Data

Resources Available for Essential Skills

Essential Skills

Essential Skills1. Read and comprehend a variety of text2. Write clearly and accurately3. Apply mathematics in a variety of settings4. Listen actively and speak clearly and coherently5. Think critically and analytically 6. Use technology to learn, live, and work 7. Demonstrate civic and community engagement8. Demonstrate global literacy9. Demonstrate personal management and teamwork skills

Essential Skills are outcomes of educational experiences; they are what students should be able to do at the end of high school. They are embedded in content standards.

Graduation Requirements

by CohortThe first three Essential Skills have been phased in as graduation requirements, based on when a student is first enrolled in grade 9 (cohort year).

Cohort Year Reading Writing Math

2008-2009 Required

2009-2010 Required Required

2010-2011 and beyond

Required Required Required

Categories of Assessments Approved for Essential Skills Graduation Requirement

1st Category Statewide Assessment

2nd Category Other Assessments

3rd Category Work Samples

1ST CATEGORY: STATEWIDE ASSESSMENTAssessment Option and Achievement Standards

Academic Year

Assessment Reading

Writing Math

2013-2014 OAKS 236 40 236

2014-beyond

Smarter Balanced

Smarter Balanced field test results will be used to establish a Smarter Balanced that represents an equivalent level of rigor to the current OAKS achievement standard.

Any increase in rigor requires adequate notice: before March 1st of the cohort’s 8th grade year.

2ND CATEGORY: OTHER ASSESSMENTSAssessment Options and Achievement Standards

Assessment

Reading Writing Math

ACT 18 19* 19

Plan 18 N/A 19

WorkKeys 5 N/A 5

Compass 81 N/A 66 (Int Alg)

Asset 42 N/A 41 (Int Alg)

SAT 440 460* 450

PSAT 44 N/A 45

AP/IB Various N/A Various

Accuplacer 86 N/A N/A

*Based on the composite score derived from both the selected response and direct-writing portions of the test. The SAT refers to this as the Writing section of the SAT . The ACT refers to this as the combined English/Writing test.

3RD CATEGORY: WORK SAMPLESAssessment Options and Achievement Standards

Reading Writing MathNumber of

Work Samples

2 Total:•One of which must be informational

2 Total:•One must be expository or persuasive•One in any of the approved modes (expository, persuasive, narrative)

2 Total:•One each for any two of the required content strands (algebra, geometry, or statistics)

Score Categories

Traits:Demonstrate General UnderstandingDevelop an InterpretationAnalyze Text

Traits: Ideas/ ContentOrganizationSentence FluencyConventions

Process Dimensions: Making Sense of the Task Representing and Solving the Task Communicating ReasoningAccuracyReflecting and Evaluating

Work Sample Score Requirement

Minimum score of 12, with no Trait lower than 3.

Minimum score of 4 in all Traits.

Minimum score of 4 in all Process Dimensions.

3RD CATEGORY: WORK SAMPLESGuidelines

All work samples must be scored with the official scoring guides.

Work samples must meet the level of rigor required on the OAKS assessment.

Work samples provide an optional means to demonstrate proficiency not an easier means.

School-Level Essential School Data Reported

Essential Skills graduation requirements are fields in the Cumulative ADM data collection.

ODE has identified several process improvements to increase data quality.

Essential Skills reports are published January 30th each year.

For each school, what % of students used each of the assessment categories to meet the graduation requirement.

AssessmentCategory

ReadingVertically totals to

100%

WritingVertically

totals to 100%

MathVertically totals to

100%

1. Oregon Statewide Assessment

% % %

2. Other Assessment

% % %

3. Work Samples

% % %

School-Level Essential School Data Reported

School-Level Essential School Data Reported

For each school, for students who met the graduation requirement with Work Samples, what were % of students were in each OAKS achievement level?

For Each Essential Skill (Reading, Writing, Math)

Meet/Exceed

Nearly Met

Low/Very Low

No Score

3.Work Samples

Horizontally totals to 100%

% % % %

Promising Practices Incorporate the scoring guides into

instructional practices to provide opportunities for feedback on some or all of the skills.

Incorporate practice work samples into your instructional practices.

Share work sample prompts that you have developed with other districts.

Find and administer work sample prompts that other districts have developed.

Develop a work sample scoring plan that allows for distributed workload.

Essential Skills

Required Essential Skills Reading: 2008-2009 cohort (Class of 2012)

Reading & Writing: 2009-2010 cohort (Class of 2013)

Reading, Writing & Math: 2010-2011 cohort (Class of 2014)

Approved Methods of Assessment OAKS

Other Approved Standardized Tests

Work Samples

In a NutshellEssential Skills

Newly Posted Just a Reminder

• 101• Updated FAQ• Case Study• Posted

Presentations

• Train the trainer • DISCS• Test Administration

Manual, Appendix K

Work sample resource sharing

Contact us about sharing what you have and finding out what other have: cristen.mclean@state.or.us

Essential Skills Resourceshttp://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=2042

Acorns for Storage1. Which courses are responsible for

Essential Skills Assessment in our school?

2. What is our procedure for keeping track of student progress toward demonstrating each required Essential Skill?

3. How can elementary and middle schools prepare students for the Essential Skills?

Essential Skills