How can the OAS be used?
The OAS can be used for a variety of purposes. Students can gain valuable experience in becoming self-assessors, learning to evaluate their own work and educational progress. Parents can see the kinds of questions their children will be asked to answer on the end-of-year CRCT or GHSGT assessments and monitor their children’s progress. Teachers can create customized tests as they complete instructional units or sequences of instruction. These tests can then be administered to individual students and/or groups of students to diagnose strengths and weaknesses, and to provide opportunities for enrichment and remediation. The OAS contains a large number of test items in reading for students in grades one through eight, in English/language arts and mathematics for students in grades one through eight and high school, and in science and social studies for students in grades three through eight and high school. How is the OAS accessed? School systems assign personal login IDs and passwords to
