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Preparing for the Statewide AssessmentsTRANSCRIPT
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
(Universal tools, designated supports, & accommodations)
(REQUIRED FOR DTCS, STCS, AND TAS)
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Understand the purpose of the statewide assessment accessibility supports
Assigning Student Test Settings in TIDE Knowledge of current updates to Student
and Test Administrator Interfaces
Big Picture Objectives
Preparing for the Statewide Assessments
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Practice Tests Allow teachers, students, parents and other
interested parties to experience a range of item types Smarter Balanced ELA and Math, as well as Performance Tasks)
Assist IEP/504 teams to determine which universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations are needed for each individual student to be successful on the assessments.
Please Note: New Practice tests will be available Oct. 20, 2015 at http://oaksportal.org/
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Calculator and Equation Editor Tutorials
http://oaksportal.org/students/
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Calculators
Scientific/Graphing/Regression
Basic
Scientific
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Equation Editor Tutorial
http://demo.tds.airast.org/EQTutorial/?c=Oregon_PT
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Oregon’s Statewide Assessment Accessibility
Supports
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=487
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS* Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 4
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Smarter Balanced Mathematics & ELA ............................................................................................ 9 OAKS Online Science and Social Sciences ................................................................................... 26 Extended Assessments ................................................................................................................. 38 Kindergarten Assessments ........................................................................................................... 46 English Language Proficiency Assessment ................................................................................... 52 Appendix A: Embedded Accessibility Support Settings ................................................................. 62 Appendix B: Guidelines for Signed Interpretation Support (For OAKS, Extended Assessment, and Kindergarten Assessment Only) .................................................................................................... 68 Appendix C: Selection, Administration, and Evaluation of Accessibility Supports (STEPS and TEACHER TOOLS) .......................................................................................................................... 74 Appendix D: Oregon’s Accessibility Panel ................................................................................... 100 Appendix E: Approval Process for a New Accessibility Support .................................................. 102 Appendix F: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ........................................... 105 Appendix G: Accessibility Guidelines for Classroom Activities .................................................... 115 Smarter Balanced Resources ..................................................................................................... 117 INDEX .......................................................................................................................................... 118 CHANGE LOG ............................................................................................................................... 119
Oregon Accessibility Manual
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Know the differences between the following categories of accessibility supports as well as the specific supports that are available for each statewide assessment:
Universal Tools Designated Supports Accommodations
Know the Options
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTSFigure 1: Conceptual Model Underlying the Oregon Accessibility Manual.
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Any practice or procedure that compromises the intent of the assessment through a change in the learning expectations, construct, or content that is to be measured, grade-level standard, or measured outcome of the assessment and is not listed in Oregon’s Accessibility Manual (OAM).
Please note: Assessments taken under any modified condition are counted as non-participants in all state and federal accountability measures and reports.
Modification
TIDEChanges for the 2015-16 School
Year
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Student Test Settings To align the organization and terminology with the
Oregon Accessibility Manual , the TIDE Student Settings screen has been updated and streamlined, including:
Student demographics and ethnicity fields have been removed
Settings are organized by category: Embedded Designated Supports, Embedded Accommodations, and Test Access
Non-embedded Designated Supports and the (Optional) Accommodation Code fields have been removed
Terminology of supports are aligned to the terminology in the Oregon Accessibility Manual
Student Settings upload template has been updated to align with the terminology in the Oregon Accessibility Manual
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
View/Edit Students in TIDE
All users can view student settings Users can only update test settings if their role in TIDE
permits All settings except ELPA21 domain exemptions can be
mass uploaded using a template provided through TIDE
Student InterfaceChanges for the 2015-16
School Year
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Updated Skin and Item Tools MenuTools now available through menu icon rather than requiring right-click (see next slide for details)
Navigation buttons now clear, allowing color contrast/overlay settings to apply
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTSItem Tools Menu
All tools now consolidated in a single location under an industry-standard menu button in the top right corner of the item. Turning on this feature also turns on strikethrough mode which enables a student to quickly and easily strike multiple options without having to right click on each and every one.
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Scrubber for Embedded Audio Enables a student to drag to the desired position in the audio for pre-recorded audio. (Note: This is not available for text-to-speech)
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTSText-to-Speech Settings
Allows the student to adjust the volume, rate (speed),
and pitch for text-to-speech from inside the secure
browser (Note: voice pack selection must still be done
outside of the secure browser)
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Response Recovery Enables a student to recover a previous draft from the
current test session. All drafts are ordered from most recent to oldest and
grouped by sitting (each time the student logged in and tested)
(Note: available as a universal tool but may be turned off from the TA Interface)
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTSPaginated Item Groups*
Single item display within item groups Students can navigate to individual items within an item group Checkmarks show which items the student has answered Enhanced security if pausing for 20+ minutes:
If student pauses for more than 20 minutes without having answered all items in the item group, answered items will be “locked down”
Students may still review but may not revise response to previously answered items in the item group
* For all tests except Smarter Balanced Math PT
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Persisting Highlighting*
*Highlighting will persist between segments on PTs and between testing sessions.
*Highlighting will only persist if a student tests on the same operating system and platform.
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Line Reader (OAKS & ELPA21)o The student is able to use this feature as a guide when
reading text.
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS
Oregon Test Administration Manual (required reading) and Webpage: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=486
Oregon’s Statewide Assessment Accessibility Webpage & Manual (required reading): http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=487
Smarter Practice/Training Tests http://oaksportal.org/
Promising Practices: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2444
Online Resources