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Work Samples: A “Dual Purpose"
To reflect new state requirements, work samples now serve two purposes: to provide the required local performance assessments and to allow students who have not met the requirements on the OAKS Assessment to demonstrate proficiency on the Essential Skills of Reading, Writing and Math for an Oregon High School Diploma.Below is a table summarizing the differences between local performance assessments and essential skills alternative assessments.
Local Performance Assessments:
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Essential Skills Alternative Assessments:
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For graduation, all students will need to demonstrate their proficiency in the Essential Skills of reading (beginning with the class of 2012), writing (beginning with the class of 2013), mathematics (beginning with the class of 2014), and speaking.
If students are not able to achieve passing scores on OAKS, they can demonstrate their proficiency in the Essential Skills by completing Work Samples in the categories below: . The primary method for demonstrating these Essential Skills is through passing scores on the OAKS. The passing OAKS scores are Reading (236), Writing (40), and Math (236).
Reading (starting with the class of 2012)
Students must receive a total of 12 or higher, with no trait score less than 3 for TWO Reading Work Samples. The samples can be:
• One informational text sample and one literary sample, or
• Two informational text samples.
Writing (starting with the class of 2013)
Students must receive a 4 or higher on each trait for THREE Writing Work Samples in the following modes:• One expository
• One persuasive
• One narrative
Math (starting with the class of 2014)
Students must receive a 4 or higher on each trait for TWO Math Work Samples. Choose from:
• Geometry
• Algebraic relationships
• Statistics/probability
