Opportunity+to+Learn

OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN

September 2008 Email from David Bowman
 * TEST records for 9th, 10th and 11th grade students will be used as the basis for the KSDE-OTL reports that indicate to schools the students who MUST be tested, the students who MAY be tested, and students who are COMPLETE, based upon Opportunity to Learn (OTL).
 * If a school has some 11th grade students that it does not intend to test or does not believe it needs to test, it should submit the TEST records for those students without any subject test types indicated.
 * 9th and 10th grade students may also be submitted with or without subject test types indicated (i.e. if a decision has not been made to test these students leave the subject test type blank).
 * KSDE’s OTL reports will then provide information regarding whether or not submitted students __must__ be tested, are __eligible__ to test, or are __complete__. If a subject test type was left blank and the student DOES need to be tested in a particular subject, then the school can submit a new TEST record for the student with the appropriate subject(s) test type(s) indicated.
 * Note: If a mistake was made or you wish to cancel a previously submitted test type, then submit a new TEST with “C” as the test type (“C”=clear test subject and test type).
 * KSDE – OTL reports will be posted on the https://online.ksde.org/authentication/login.aspx page for Reading and Mathematics on October 10. Science and History-Government will follow by November 1 (there will not be an OTL report for writing this year). Additional information will be provided on accessing the reports once the reports are ready to post.

David Bowman,KSDE Assessment Consultant, V-785-296-4349, F-785-296-3523 dbowman@ksde.org