Objective 1: Accelerate implementation of Oregon’s state-of-the-art educational assessment and information management tools.

2004 Action Items

Accomplishments/Status

Ÿ Fully implement Technology Enhanced Student Assessment (TESA).

Ÿ    50% of all schools use TESA by end of 03-04 school year.

Ÿ    75% of all schools use TESA by end of 04-05 school year.

Ÿ    95% of all schools use TESA by end of 05-06 biennium.  

Ÿ Fully fund and implement all aspects of state assessment system (multiple choice tests, performance assessments, and work samples) by 2005 school year.

Ÿ  Facilitate the exchange of core student-level data between districts through a common infrastructure. Fully fund and implement the necessary policies, standards, and technology required to facilitate this exchange of core student level data.

Ÿ    03-05 Design the K-12 Integrated Data System (KIDS) by consolidating existing student information systems.  

Ÿ    03-07 Develop technical specifications and pilot KIDS. Fully fund and implement the required policies, standards, and technology.

Ÿ  Complete Student Proficiency Profile (building on 02-03 technical specifications developed by ODE) and pilot the College Admission and Placement Profile (CAPP) data exchange between high schools, community colleges and Oregon University System campuses.

Ÿ    03-04 – Pilot data transfer prototype  (PCC, LBCC, CCC, PSU, OSU, EOU).  

Ÿ    04-06 – Fully implement CAPP across all public high schools and all public two-year and four-year post-secondary institutions.  

Ÿ  Improve Web reports of school level information for various public constituencies. Reports include the ability to view comparisons among schools and with the prototypes proposed by the Quality Education Commission.

Ÿ    03-05 produce improved version of Web reports.

Ÿ    05-06 refine and scale-up.

   The Oregon Department of Education has placed top priority on ways to improve data management and reporting. Pilots of the computer-based assessment system are highly successful; resources to expand this assessment system were included in the Department’s budget. The database tracking system is included in the Department’s budget. The Quality Education Commission and the Department of Education are exploring how to make the tracking system more widely accessible and user friendly. Data on student performance indicates later success. The First Year Study (pdf-530K) found that 6,082 OUS and 12,519 community college students who met academic standards in high school were more likely to succeed in their first year of college than those who did not meet standards.