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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TO: District and ESD Special Education Directors
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The message below is being sent to you on behalf of:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Sarah Drinkwater, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Assistant Superintendent</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Office of Student Services</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">______________________________________________
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">April 14, 2016</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HIGH IMPORTANCE: Setting Text-to-Speech in TIDE<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ODE has received a high volume of testing improprieties regarding students that received the Accommodation of
<u>Text-to-Speech (TTS) for stimuli (passages)</u> on the Smarter Balanced ELA assessments and are
<b><u>NOT on an IEP or 504 Plan</u></b>. As a reminder, this type of testing impropriety can result in an invalidation (loss of testing opportunity) for the student. Please send this communication out to any personnel entering student settings into TIDE or
approving students through the TA interface. Per the requirements provided in the Oregon Accessibility Manual, the following is the additional guidance ODE sent out in January:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Test-to-Speech(TTS) is an Embedded Designated Support for items and stimuli on all OAKS and Smarter Balanced Tests
<b>EXCEPT stimuli in English languages arts</b> (for which it is an embedded accommodation requiring documentation in an IEP or 504 plan).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Text-to-Speech could not be split into two categories on the student settings page in TIDE (i.e., Designated Support and Accommodation) this year. Both items, stimuli,
and stimuli & items are all located under the same drop-down menu under Embedded Designated Supports.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please make sure to exercise extreme caution when selecting this support for students to avoid a testing impropriety.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please contact Brad Lenhardt if you have questions at
<a href="mailto:brad.lenhardt@state.or.us"><span style="color:windowtext">brad.lenhardt@state.or.us</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ruby Sandberg, Executive Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Office of Student Services
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Oregon Department of Education<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">503-947-5738 l FAX: 503-378-5156 l
</span></i><a href="mailto:ruby.sandberg@state.or.us"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">ruby.sandberg@state.or.us</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">The Oregon Department of Education is an equal opportunity agency and employer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Messages to and from this email address may be made available to the public under Oregon law.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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