Understand the purpose of the statewide assessment accessibility supports

1. Accessibility Supports(Universal tools, designated supports, & accommodations)(Required for DTCs, STCs, and TAs)

2. Big Picture Objectives • 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

3. Preparing for the Statewide Assessments

4. 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/

5. Calculator and Equation Editor Tutorials http://oaksportal.org/students/

6. Calculators Basic Scientific Scientific/Graphing/Regression

7. Equation Editor Tutorial http://demo.tds.airast.org/EQTutorial/?c=Oregon_PT

8. Oregon’sStatewide Assessment Accessibility Supports http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?id=487

9. Oregon Accessibility Manual

10. Know the Options • 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

11. Figure 1: Conceptual Model Underlying the Oregon Accessibility Manual.

12. Modification • 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.

13. TIDE Changes for the 2015-16 School Year

14. 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

15. 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

16. Student Interface Changes for the 2015-16 School Year

17. Updated Skin and Item Tools Menu Tools 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

18. Item 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.

19. 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)

20. Text-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)

21. 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)

22. Paginated 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

23. 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.

24. Line Reader (OAKS & ELPA21) • The student is able to use this feature as a guide when reading text.

25. Online Resources • 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