Throughout 2000-01, OUS will conduct activities to support PASS implementation. Orientation training for high school English, science, and math teachers will be held at various times and locations in August and October of 2000 and August of 2001. Two types of assessment determine student's scores on the PASS proficiencies. Teacher verifications Teachers score student work by applying criteria that have been developed for each proficiency. A teacher judges a collection of each student's work to determine if the student is proficient.
Teachers statewide use the same criteria.
To ensure comparable judgments, teachers attend training sessions at which they cross-score student work in order to make their judgments more consistent. To help them recognize the required level of mastery, teachers also refer to collections of student work that have been judged to be representative of proficient performance. State and national assessments. The Oregon Department of Education currently administers tests and performance tasks in English, math, science, and is planning to do the same in social science. Results from these assessments may be used to demonstrate or contribute substantially to proficiency in these four content areas.