[ELPA] ELPA Rescore Message

[GREENE Crystal]

To: DTCs and Title III Directors
Re: ELPA Rescore Message

ODE understands that school and district staff have a range of questions about why ODE decided to calibrate some ELPA items and rescore ELPA tests this year.  At our request, our test vendor, American Institutes for Research, has provided the attached ELPA Rescore Memo.  This memo contains technical details about the changes to ELPA this year and the reasons for rescoring ELPA tests.

We know that this information is technical and hard to understand and AIR has attempted to provide this information as clearly as possible.  However, the memo remains a technical explanation and will not be much use in stakeholder communications.  For those of you wishing to communicate with parents or community members about the ELPA rescore, we have provided a sample parent message in both English and Spanish. Please feel free to use this as a basis for your communications with parents and community members on this topic.  Again, this is just a template for a parent/community message and you may edit or adjust it as you see fit to best meet the needs of your community.

We appreciate your patience this year as we adapt to a new and better system for testing our English Language Learners.  We know there have been some challenges, but we have also heard a great deal of support for the new  ELPA test.  Thank you for all of the feedback you have provided this year on making this the best system possible for our students.

Crystal Greene
Communications Coordinator | Office of Assessment and Information Services | Oregon Department of Education
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