OSAT OK128 case studies

OSAT OK128 · Put your knowledge to work in context.

Test 128 belongs to the Oklahoma Subject Area Tests (OSAT) family - the content-area assessments Oklahoma uses in the educator certification process. Each certification field carries its own test code, and code 128 corresponds to one specific field. The OSAT OK128 case studies are 5 cases and about 5,344 words.

The Slide That Says Summer Happens Because Earth Is Closer to the Sun

Alvarez teaches fourth-grade science at a suburban Oklahoma elementary school with 22 students. The district's required slide deck for the Earth-Sun-Moon unit states on slide 14: 'Earth is closer to the Sun in summer, which is why summers are hot and winters are cold.' While teaching it, a student asks why her cousins in Australia swim at the beach in December, and another points out that the class learned last year that Oklahoma's hottest month is July.

1,010 words, about 5 min 2

An Eight-Item Quiz, an Inverted Ratio, and Three Items Nobody Taught

Okafor teaches seventh-grade mathematics. Her second-period class of 26 students took an eight-item quiz on proportional reasoning; the quiz counts 20 percent of the quarter grade.

1,045 words, about 5 min 3

Four Students, Fifty Minutes, One Lab Bench Setup

Bell co-teach second-period Biology: 32 students in a 50-minute period with lab tables arranged as eight stations. The class includes Devon, who has dyslexia and reads about three grade levels below; Amara, a newcomer at WIDA level 2 whose first language is Somali; Luis, whose behavior intervention plan requires that redirection be private and must not involve losing lab privileges; and Priya, who finished the pre-lab in four minutes and has begun drawing on the lab bench.

1,052 words, about 5 min 4

A Journal Entry, a Coach's Request, and a Colleague's Post

Whitfield teaches tenth-grade English. On Tuesday, a student, Jalissa, turns in a journal entry saying that an adult in her home 'got so mad he threw a plate and it hit me, and I told the nurse it was the door.' Jalissa asks her not to tell anyone.

1,154 words, about 6 min 5

Two Teachers, 120 Essays, and a Full Letter Grade of Disagreement

Eleventh-grade English teachers Mr. Lin each teach three sections of American Literature and share 120 essays from a common rhetorical-analysis prompt.

1,083 words, about 5 min