Assessment Guidance
For Parents and Families
Please visit Oklahoma School Testing Program for OSTP Families
Toolkits and Resources to Support Interpretation and Use of State Test Scores
This year, performance on end-of-year state summative assessments helps us understand how well students did against end-of-grade level expectations as we continue to recover from pandemic-related instructional changes and interruptions. We invite school leaders to use the tools and resources provided here to examine assessment summary reports with a focus on comparing changes to determine whether interventions and initiatives had a meaningful impact.
Unwrapping Depth of Knowledge one-pager, Workshop Slide Deck
Overview Guide: Using OSTP Data to Monitor COVID Recovery
Administrator Toolkit: Key Questions for Administrators, Webinar Recording, Slide Deck
Educator Toolkit: Key Questions for Educators, Webinar Recording, Slide Deck
Working with Families Toolkit: Key Considerations for Families, Webinar Recording, Slide Deck
Supporting Resources
Provides evidence-based, curated guidance documents with links to established research for educators to consider as they implement programs that meet the needs of their communities, determine the most effective uses of local relief funds and engage families and other stakeholders in supporting student learning and well-being.
Thank you all for your work in helping students participate on the state assessment. These tests help everyone understand where our students are today, especially during these unprecedented times. State tests traditionally serve as a snapshot that helps schools and districts evaluate their instructional programs by providing information about student readiness in math, English language arts, and science. This year it is particularly important to consider other information (participation, enrollment, and opportunities to learn) when interpreting state test scores.
Oklahoma's Assessment System
Oklahoma recognizes that a robust assessment system is tied closely to students’ learning and teachers’ instructional practices by valuing and promoting local, classroom-based formative assessments that help make student learning visible. At the same time, that system should provide a strong summative assessment program that fits as a component within a multifaceted state, district and school accountability system. Oklahoma ESSA Plan (p 48)
The OSDE supports an assessment system by working with Oklahoma educators and stakeholders to:
- Ensure that state and federally required annual summative assessments delivered through the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) are effective and meaningful to families, districts, educators, and members of the community
- Develop Instructional resources to support local formative and interim assessments through the curriculum frameworks projects and assessment guidance toolkit
- Build and deliver professional learning through face-to-face and web-based resources to support local assessment needs and interpretation of state assessment data
