Overview
Oases offers online or paper testing with Achieve. The Achieve test is a combined Math and Language Arts test. You may take both sections together as a combined test, or separately as a Math test and a Language Arts test, but this is still considered one test.
Article Sections
- Achieve Pricing
- Time
- Grade
- Achieve Validity Report
- Charge Warning
- Copyright Warning
- Administering a Paper Achieve Test
- Add Student Answers to Oases
- View or Print Test Report
- Online Achieve Tests
- Finishing the Online Test
- Notification of Test Submission
- Note on Student Status
Achieve Pricing
SW09. Achieve Prices and Billing
1. The student may sit the combined test taking MA and LA at the same time or if you wish, the Math and Language Arts sections may be loaded to the student record separately to enable separate scoring of each section. A separate load will still be deemed as one test for billing purposes.
Time
2. The combined test is a two hour test allotting 1 hour per section and designed to be taken in one sitting. The online tests must be taken in one sitting and cannot be stopped and re-started.
Grade
3. If you choose to, you may test off grade and the automatically generated learning plan will be created with the goals from the chosen grade.
Achieve Validity Report
4. Link to Achieve Validity Report and info on Oases Website.
Charge Warning
5. This is a paid service. Do not enter an Achieve Test for Practice unless using Fake Student otherwise you will be billed for the use of the test.
GS05. Running a Practice Achieve Test
Copyright Warning
6. You may not reproduce the Achieve Tests in any other software system.
7. You may not administer a paper Achieve Test to a student and not enter the student's answers into Oases for grading.
8. You may not collate the answers and administer a paper Achieve Test and grade the test and produce scores outside of Oases.
Administering a Paper Achieve Test
9. Print the required paper test from Tools - Documents - Achieve Pre Test or download and send it to the student as a pdf.
10. Give the paper test or pdf to the student with instructions as to how you wish them to indicate the answers to you.
11. When the student is finished the test their answers need to be loaded into the student record in Oases for grading.
Add Student Answers to Oases
12. Open the student record and navigate to the test tab.
13. Select New Test and select the Achieve pre test or Achieve post test.
6. From the pop up choose Enter Answers if the student took a paper test.
7. The answer grid will open for a combined test.
8. Check your grade which is automatic. This may be changed if testing off grade but make sure it matches the grade of the test the student sat.
9. If you wish to load the Math and Language Arts sections make sure the correct check mark is showing. Questions 1 through 44 are Language Arts and questions 45 through end are Math.
Remember: If the student took the combined LA and MA test and you load the sections into Oases separately to receive a score for each section you will only be charged for one test as the MA and LA together is one test.
10. Enter the answers the student indicated. Enter nothing for a missed question.
11. Press Save Answers and the results will save to the student test list.
View or Print Test Report
12. Press the download icon in the Open column on the test row to open and print the test report.
13. Repeat for the other section if loading LA and MA answers separately.
14. If required and the student took a pre-test, press Generate LP to create a targeted learning plan from the students test results. Learning plan is accessed and printed from the Learning Plan page.
Online Achieve Tests
The online version of Achieve needs to be taken in one sitting without breaks. Consider a paper test if this will present difficulties.
15. On the student test tab select New Test and select the Achieve pre test or Achieve post test.
16. Select SET FOR ONLINE if you wish the student to take the online version.
17. A box will pop up to confirm the student grade and section/s of the test to be presented online.
18. Press CONTINUE and the test will drop into the student test list with a note WAITING FOR STUDENT.
19. When you are ready to activate the test press the Send icon in the Open column.
20. You will be presented with two options:
- Send Test Link
- Take Test Now
21. Take Test Now will open the test on the screen if the tutor is with the student, and the student can work on the test.
22. To email the test for the student to take elsewhere select Send test link and choose who to send the test link to.
23. When the student is finished and submits the test the scores and timing will be recorded in the test row.
24. The report can be printed by pressing the download icon in the Open column.
25. When the pre-test is loaded you may generate an automatic targeted learning plan by pressing Generate LP.
Finishing the Test
26. During the online test the student may move forwards or backwards through the test to check their answers before pressing Finish Test.
27. If the student presses finish test it cannot be restarted but if the student's computer crashes or times out during the test it may be restarted by you from the student test page. The student will need to take the test from the beginning.
Notification of Test Submission
28. When an online test is submitted by a student an email is sent to the staff member that sent the online test link. The template used is, Test Submitter: online test submitted.
Note on Student Status
29. When sending the Achieve test online, the student record must be Active (have a code of Auto or other manually assigned active codes) to send and submit an online test. If you make your student inactive after emailing the test link and before the student presses the link the link will fail and a message that the link has expired will present to the student.
Link To
SW09. Achieve Prices and Billing
GS05. Running a Practice Achieve Test