New English File Intermediate End-of-course Test Pdf

[Michelle Benitone]

Thissite provides an overview of our state's student assessment programs. This website will be updated as new information from TEA (Texas Education Agency) becomes available. Links in each section give access to more detailed information about the assessment programs.

This spring students will be participating in the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). STAAR helps measure what the student has learned throughout the year and their progress from one year to the next, but a score on STAAR alone does not determine whether the student can advance to the next grade.

Students enrolled in high school credit courses in a Texas public high school must take and pass certain required courses and the EOCs for those courses. The assessments are based on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, the state curriculum standards. The EOC exams are designed to ensure that students are learning the specific course material and are prepared to succeed in college and/or careers.

Students enrolled in a course with an EOC exam (Algebra 1, Biology, English I, English II, U.S. History) in either middle school or high school must test. Students must pass five STAAR EOC exams to meet graduation requirements in a Texas public high school.

In April STAAR EOC assessments will be administered to students who are currently enrolled and completing a corresponding subject area course. Additional assessment opportunities will also be made available to students who previously passed a course but need to pass the EOC assessment in December and June.

The role LPACs have in making assessment decisions for ELLs supports appropriate implementation of both the content area Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) and the Texas English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS). In Section 74.4 of the TAC, the ELPS require all teachers of EBs to incorporate the teaching of English in daily content area instruction and to linguistically accommodate (communicate, sequence, and scaffold) the instruction according to the English language proficiency levels of their EBs. These requirements help EBs learn English and engage more meaningfully in the learning of subject matter.

The ELPS go a step further for EBs who are at the beginning or intermediate level of English language proficiency. Students who do not proceed quickly through these levels are at particular risk of falling behind academically and having difficulty catching up once they reach higher proficiency levels. The ELPS require districts to provide intensive, focused, and systematic second language acquisition instruction designed specifically to build the foundation of English vocabulary, grammar, and syntax that these students vitally need to get beyond the intermediate level.

An EB whose parent or guardian has declined bilingual/ESL services required by state law is not eligible for special EB assessment, accommodation, or accountability provisions. This includes no testing in Spanish, no linguistic accommodations during testing, no English I special provision, and no unschooled asylee/refugee provisions.

STAAR Alternate 2 is an assessment based on alternate academic standards and is designed for students with significant cognitive disabilities receiving special education services. Additionally, the students must meet participation requirements. STAAR Alternate 2 was developed to meet federal requirements of both the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). ESEA requires that all students be assessed in specific grades and subjects throughout their academic career, whereas IDEA requires that students with disabilities have access to the same standards as their non-disabled peers and be included in statewide assessments. STAAR Alternate 2, which was redesigned as a result of state legislation passed in 2013, is a standardized assessment administered individually to each eligible student. Students must meet specific requirements to take STAAR Alternate 2, which is available for the same grades and subjects assessed in the general STAAR program.

Admissions, review, and dismissal (ARD) committees ensure that a student meets all mandated participation requirements, which were developed by TEA and reviewed by educator advisory committees and educator review committees. If the student has a significant cognitive disability that requires the student to access the grade-level TEKS through prerequisite skills, then the ARD committee should review the participation requirements for STAAR Alternate 2. If the ARD committee determines that a student meets all of the participation requirements, the student should be assessed with STAAR Alternate 2.

The TEA Family Portal provides parents and students with online access to scores from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) assessments.

Undergraduates who plan to receive a bachelor's degree from the University of Oregon must submit an application through the university's online information system, DuckWeb, by the fourth Sunday of the anticipated term of graduation. To apply to graduate, click on Student Menu > Registration Menu > Apply for Undergraduate Degree.

The Office of the Registrar encourages students to apply to graduate the term preceding their graduation term. This allows students to plan or change their final term's course schedule to ensure completion of all requirements. Students who have been disqualified must petition for reinstatement to graduate.

All grade changes, removals of incompletes, and transfer work necessary for completion of degree requirements must be on file in the Office of the Registrar by the Friday following the end of the term of graduation. Academic records are sealed thirty days after the conferral of a degree; no changes to the record will be made following that date.

Students who do not apply to graduate will not receive retroactive degrees even if degree requirements were completed at an earlier date. Applications for graduate degrees are available from the Graduate School.

To earn a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, you must be proficient in a foreign language at the level attained by two years of university-level work. Courses used to satisfy the foreign language requirement for the BA degree may not also be used to fulfill the Arts and Letters (A&L) area requirement.

To earn a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree, you must complete the equivalent of one year of college-level work in mathematics. All courses taken must be passed with a grade of C- or higher, or P (pass). Courses used to satisfy the mathematics requirement for the BS degree may not also be used to fulfill the Science (SCI) area requirement.

Graduating seniors who have earned at least 90 credits in residence at the University of Oregon and have successfully completed all other university degree requirements are eligible for graduation with Latin honors. Postbaccalaureate students are not eligible for Latin honors. The Office of the Registrar computes Latin honors upon graduation.

To graduate with a BA degree, University of Oregon students need to show intermediate (third term of second year or above) competency in one language other than English. As specified in the UO Catalog, students may meet their graduation requirements for the BA degree through a sequence of courses or in other ways.

Exams prepared by the College Level Exam Program (CLEP) of the College Board, a national organization, can provide placement information and can also earn UO credit. They are available for Spanish, French, and German. A student who scores at the equivalent of completion of the final course of the second year of language study on a CLEP proficiency exam would earn 12 credits, as well as completing the University of Oregon BA requirement.

Students should register for the test on the University of Oregon Testing Center website. The Testing Center has CLEP appointments available on a regular basis throughout the year. Students with questions can contact the Testing Center. The student is responsible for all costs associated with the exam and its administration. Information about the costs are available at the Testing Center website and the CLEP website.

The following options meet the UO BA Language requirement but offer no UO credits. For the test options below, you are required to take the relevant test in all the skills for which it is available. For example, for the STAMP test, the skills tests are reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

The STAMP test (Avant Assessment) is available for Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (simplified and full form), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Information for taking the STAMP can be found at Avant Assessment. Each UO language program specifies the level required to meet the BA requirement as indicated in the tables below. Required proficiency is listed in the table below by language and skill level. An external STAMP score cannot be more than one year old at the time the student submits it to satisfy the BA requirement.

The ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) is offered by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). The AAPPL exam is not offered at the UO. It is most often administered in high school but can also be used as a placement test for incoming university students. The following levels in the four skill areas satisfy the BA Language requirement (I = Intermediate):

3a8082e126