ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Universal tools designated supports accommodations REQUIRED
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS (Universal tools, designated supports, & accommodations) (REQUIRED FOR DTCS, STCS, AND TAS)
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Big Picture Objectives q Understand the purpose of the statewide assessment accessibility supports q Assigning Student Test Settings in TIDE q Knowledge of current updates to Student and Test Administrator Interfaces
Preparing for the Statewide Assessments
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Practice Tests ¾ 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) ¾ 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. ¾ 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 Basic Scientific/Graphing/Regression
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 Oregon Accessibility Manual
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Know the Options q 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 Ø Designated Supports Ø Accommodations Ø
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Figure 1: Conceptual Model Underlying the Oregon Accessibility Manual. Universal Tools Embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 ELPA 21 Designated Supports Non-embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 XA Table 1 KA Table 1 ELPA 21 Embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 ELPA 21 Non-embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 XA Table 1 KA Table 1 ELPA 21 Accommodation s Embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 ELPA 21 Non-embedded Table 1 SB Table 1 OAKS Table 1 XA Table 1 KA Table 1 ELPA 21
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Modification q q 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.
TIDE Changes for the 2015 -16 School Year
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Student Test Settings q 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 Ø Settings are organized by category: Embedded Designated Supports, Embedded Accommodations, and Test Access Ø Non-embedded Designated Supports and the (Optional) Accommodation Code fields have been removed Ø Terminology of supports are aligned to the terminology in the Oregon Accessibility Manual Ø q Student Settings upload template has been updated to align with the terminology in the Oregon Accessibility Manual
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS View/Edit Students in TIDE q All users can view student settings q Users can only update test settings if their role in TIDE permits All settings except ELPA 21 domain exemptions can be mass uploaded using a template provided through TIDE q
Student Interface Changes for the 2015 -16 School Year
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS 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
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS 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. q 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. q
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Scrubber for Embedded Audio q 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 SUPPORTS 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) q
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Response Recovery q q 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 SUPPORTS Paginated Item Groups* q q 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: Ø Ø 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 & ELPA 21) o The student is able to use this feature as a guide when reading text.
ACCESSIBILITY SUPPORTS Online Resources q Oregon Test Administration Manual (required reading) and Webpage: http: //www. ode. state. or. us/search/page/? =486 q Oregon’s Statewide Assessment Accessibility Webpage & Manual (required reading): http: //www. ode. state. or. us/search/page/? =487 q Smarter Practice/Training Tests http: //oaksportal. org/ q Promising Practices: http: //www. ode. state. or. us/search/page/? =2444
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