Essential Skills Task Force

1. Essential Skills Task Force March 11, 2008

2. Essential Skills Survey Results Overall Youth Advisory Team (YAT) Survey • 22 respondents • Represents • students On Line Survey • 510 respondents • ALL Stakeholder groups • ALL Oregon regions • 67% of the respondents indicated they were in PK-12 Education

3. Essential Skills Response Overall response is clearly in favor of the presented list of Essential Skills ranking them all ABOVE 7.5 on a scale of 1- 10 Personal Management/Teamwork averaged 8.66- placing it as 5th, higher than "apply math"

4. Essential Skills Response

5. CRLS & Essential Skills Merger Response

6. Comment Summary

7. Comment Summary Concern most often mentioned: • Implementation, including: • Measurement/Assessment • Applying to teaching & learning • Missing Skills mentioned • Health, Finance, Arts, Science, Communications

8. Oregon diploma • Requirements: • Education Plan & Profile • Credit Requirements • 24 credits • Proficiency in Essential Skills • -Reading -Technology • -Writing -Civic & community engagement • -Speaking -Global literacy • -Apply math -Personal mgmt & teamwork • -Critical thinking • Career-Related Learning Experiences • Extended Application

9. Essential Skills are embedded in current content standards EXAMPLE  Essential Skill: Write clearly and accurately ELA standards that support this Essential Skill: HIGH SCHOOL EL.CM.WR.10 Establish a coherent and clearly supported thesis that engages the reader, conveys a clear and distinctive perspective on the subject, maintains a consistent tone and focus throughout the piece of writing, and ends with a well supported conclusion GRADE 8 EL.08.WR.10 Create compositions that engage the reader, have a clear message, a coherent thesis, and end with a clear and well-supported conclusion. GRADE 5 EL.05.WR.10 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person, adjusting tone and style as appropriate. • POTENTIAL ASSESSMENTS • OAKS Writing Performance Assessment • Writing Work Samples scored locally with Writing Scoring Guide • Other assessments that meet established criteria

10. DRAFT Assessment Framework for Essential Skills ~to be reviewed by State Board in March • Ensure opportunities to learn • Local performance assessments grades 3-8 and high school required, embedded into instruction, use Official State Scoring Guides or comparable measures • Build on existing systems • Assessments • Use OAKS to the extent appropriate • Expertise • Establish an Assessment of Essential Skills Review Panel(AESRP) • Additional (multiple) pathways • Other assessments eligible as approved by AERSP (e.g. local performance assessment, AP, ACT, SAT etc.)

11. DRAFT Assessment Framework for Essential Skills ~to be reviewed by State Board in March • Establish a Phase-In • Current 8th graders (2012 graduates): Reading, Writing, Speaking, Math • ES added as assessments approved • Provide Clear State Guidance • Administration manualissued by May 1st each year • Connect with Postsecondary Opportunities • Disseminate how assessment data are used by postsecondary institutions

12. Assessments Proposed for 2007-08 / 8thgraders~to be reviewed by State Board in March • Reading:OAKS Reading • Write: • OAKS Writing Performance Assessment • 3 Writing Work Samples/State Writing Scoring Guide • Speak: 3 Speaking Work Samples • Apply Math: • OAKS Mathematics • 2 Math Work Samples/State Math PS Scoring Guide Proficiency levels to be determined

13. Assessments Proposed for Future Cohorts & Skills~to be reviewed by State Board in March • Think • Technology • Civic/Community • Global literacy • Personal Management/Teamwork • Approved local assessments, scoring criteria, and professional development • Extended Application/CRLS assessment

14. Thank you!