Assessment
Oklahoma State Department of Education has made practice questions for the online OSTP assessments available. Students should use these practice questions to become familiar with the online tools that are available as well as the formatting of the multiple-choice and technology enhanced items. The intent of these practice questions are not to predict a student's performance level on the operational assessment, but to familiarize them with the online platform. These practice questions may be used in school as well as home for families to review.
3rd Grade ELA
3rd Grade Mathematics
4th Grade English-Language Arts
4th Grade Mathematics
To take a practice test, click link below, then click OSTP Practice Test or OSTP Spanish Practice test.
Oklahoma's State Department of Education provides Parent, Student, and Teacher Guides (PSTG) for each state assessment students are required to take each year. These guides provide useful information for parents about the Oklahoma School Testing Program. They also provide sample of questions students can expect to see on the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP). Spring testing will occur in April and May.
3rd Grade Mathematics and Reading
4th Grade Mathematics and Reading
Parent/Student Portal
For the first time, Oklahoma educators and families will be able to review their students’ state test results as early as May. The Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) anticipates preliminary results of the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) for grades 3-8 will be available by the end of May, giving families access to their children’s test scores before summer break begins for many districts.
Individual scores will be posted on the OSTP Student/Family Portal, linked on the new online interactive Oklahoma School Report Card dashboard at oklaschools.com. To log in to the portal, families must have their student’s unique 10-digit State Testing Number, or STN, which is available through their local school or on previous OSTP parent reports. Families are limited to one account but can share a password once that account has been activated. GPS will email and post on the Campus Parent Portal student STN numbers for parents to access student test results.
Oklahoma’s state assessments include only federally required tests plus U.S. history for high school juniors. The state administers math and English language arts (ELA) tests for grades 3-8 and science for grades 5 and 8. As juniors, students also take the SAT or ACT through their local school.
“State assessments cannot measure all that our students know, but they are an important tool that helps identify academic progress and measure individual student growth year over year,” Hofmeister said. “Measuring what matters is one way we can ensure every student has the opportunity to achieve academic success.”
OSDE has also redesigned its OSTP Parent, Student and Teacher Guides to support the role of the state tests under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The new grade-specific guides include a section on what students are learning in core areas, ways families can support learning and examples of the kinds of questions students see on state tests. The guides are available in English and Spanish. To see the guides and access other tools and resources click here.
Reading Sufficiency
Reading Sufficiency provides a foundation for student academic success.
Purpose
The purpose of the Reading Sufficiency Act (RSA) is to ensure that all Oklahoma students are reading on grade level at the end of third grade (a critical juncture when students go from learning to read to reading to learn). RSA supports Oklahoma children in Kindergarten through third grade.
For the Student
Reading sufficiency significantly reduces the possible need for remediation in middle and high school and lowers the risk of a student dropping out of school because he or she is unable to read.