Reading Performance Assessment Practice Tasks

Overview

The Oregon Department of Education provides Reading Performance Assessment Practice Tasks to demonstrate the types of reading selections and questions high school students might respond to as part of a local performance assessment to demonstrate proficiency in the Essential Skill of reading.

Beginning with the Class of 2012, high school students must demonstrate proficiency in several Essential Skills in order to receive an Oregon high school diploma. For the Essential Skill of reading, students must attain a score of 2515 for the Reading claim on the Smarter Balanced English language arts assessment or demonstrate their proficiency through an alternate means.

Several alternate assessment options will be approved by the State Board of Education, including national tests such as the ACT/PLAN, SAT/PSAT, COMPASS, ASSET, WorkKeys, and others. In addition, districts may establish local performance assessments such as the ones exemplified in the Practice Reading Performance Assessment Tasks which would then be scored with the official Oregon Reading Performance Assessment Scoring Guide.

Practice tasks represent both literary and informative reading selections students might see both in school and other daily reading activities. The Practice Reading Performance Assessments may not be used for purposes of certifying proficiency in the essential skill of reading for the diploma.

• High School Reading Performance Assessment Practice Tasks Information and Instructions

Scoring Guides

Including: High School Literary Text Scoring Guide, High School Informational Scoring Guide, and High School Scoring Guide Portrait

Practice Tasks

• Task S-1 "A Ex-Basketball Player" (Literary)
• Task S-2 "Exercising Options" (Informative)
• Task S-3 "Are We Addicted to Smartphones?" (Informative)
• Task S-4 "Fear in the Swamp" (Literary)
• Task P-1 "A Gold Mine of a Fish"
• Task P-2 "Find Strength on the Mat"
• Task P-3 "How Do Dogs Perceive Time?"
• Task P-4 "Buck Leads the Team"
• Task P-5 "To Those Boarding Planes"

Practice Tasks from Spring 2009 Reading Field Test

• Task F-1 "Walking Hannah"
• Task F-2 "My Antonia"
• Task F-3 "That's One Mammoth Molar"
• Task F-4 " I Remember, I Remember"
• Task F-5 "Are Americans Destined for a Diet of Bread and Water?"
• Task F-6 "Students Programmed to Help Out Their Rivals"