#OklaEd Students: Sixth Grade Reading Test Included 25% More DOK 3 Questions

The 6th grade reading Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test included up to 25 percent more DOK 3 questions, according to Tara Huddleston, Alpha Plus facilitator and former REAC3H instructional coach with the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Teachers from across the state are reporting in an online Professional Learning Community that their 6th graders test scores have dipped significantly from last year.

You can read more about this year’s testing issues here.

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle taught secondary ELA in public schools for 10 years. She served as an award-winning journalist before transitioning into education and is now Assistant Director of the OU Writing Center and a teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project. Michelle co-edited the Oklahoma English Journal for five years. She is a PhD candidate in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. She started reThink ELA LLC as a teacher blog in 2012.

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