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The Online Assessment Reporting System (OARS) is a web-based suite that facilitates the collection, reporting and analysis of local and state assessments, in conjunction with district demographic information. OARS helps districts meet No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements through easy to understand reports that disaggregate data by any subgroup you choose.

OARS was developed by a former teacher, with the needs of instructional practitoners firmly in mind. When you implement OARS in your district, you can:

Configure almost any assessment instrument, including publisher assessments.

Choose from several flexible options for data entry: manual entry; upload of scanned results; or, online assessment administration (coming soon).

Choose the demographic fields (e.g. ethnicity, language proficiency, etc.) you want included in OARS for disaggregation of reports.

Create easy-to-generate, easy-to-read reports, graphs and charts at the class, grade, school, or district level.

Create Individual Student Reports for Student Study Team meetings, or for sharing with parents.

Establish role-based account privileges so that classroom teachers can only see the data for their own class, principals can only see all the data for their school, etc.

Export assessment data to tab-delimited files for import into other applications like Microsoft Excel or SPSS.

Over the last three years, OARS has evolved dramatically in response to suggestions from teachers, instructional coaches, and administrators who actually use the software.

Our expertise lies in helping districts collect, report, and analyze data--we don't provide assessments. Instead, we have developed our software to work with the assessments you already have, whether you designed them internally, or whether they are from a publisher whose materials you have purchased.

'Manual Entry' means that teachers administer the assessments, scores them, and enter the results directly in OARS. Usually the results that are entered into OARS are 'benchmark' scores, e.g. a score of 6 (out of 10) in Spelling, a score of 3 (out of 5) in Math Reasoning, etc. The manual entry method is easy to implement, and gives users the instant gratification of being able to analyze their data immediately after entering it in OARS.

'Scan and Upload' involves administering the assessment on scannable forms, then uploading the data into OARS. Because we don't provide the scanning software and hardware, you can use almost any scanning system that you already have in place in your district. The primary benefit of scanning and uploading assessments is that you can analyze individual items in each assessment.

There are currently about ten different reports available in OARS. Once you take into account all the different ways that each of these reports can be configured and disaggregated, there are literally millions of possibilities. These samples represent just a handful of the reports available.

The Class Summary Report shows how all students in a class did on an assessment. The color coding makes it clear which students met or exceed the benchmark and which ones didn't.

This stacked Bar Graph takes the data from the Class Summary Report (above) and displays it in a way that is easy to interpret.

The Individual Student Report shows everything known about a student in one place, including placement information, demographics, state assessment data, and local assessment results.

The School Comparison Report compares how students performed on an assessment across schools, revealing where there may be strengths and areas of challenge.

The Item Analysis Report is available for districts that scan upload their assessment results. The percentage of students answering each question correctly is identified, along with a correlation to the state standard covered in the question.