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ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS

(Universal tools, designated supports, & accommodations)

(REQUIRED FOR DTCS, STCS, AND TAS)


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


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/

http://oaksportal.org/

http://oaksportal.org/


Calculator and Equation Editor Tutorials

http://oaksportal.org/students/

http://oaksportal.org/students/


Calculators

Scientific/Graphing/Regression

Basic

Scientific


Equation Editor Tutorial

http://demo.tds.airast.org/EQTutorial/?c=Oregon_PT

http://demo.tds.airast.org/EQTutorial/?c=Oregon_PT


Oregon’s Statewide Assessment Accessibility

Supports

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=487

http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=487


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


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.


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


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


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


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.


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)


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


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.


Line Reader (OAKS & ELPA21)o The student is able to use this feature as a guide when

reading text.


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

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