Ohio Assessments for Educators (OAE) Overview

What Content Is Covered by The OAE Early Childhood Education Exam?

The OAE Early Childhood Education exam has four main sections, each with several subsections. It contains 150 multiple-choice questions and participants are given 180 minutes to complete it. Per OAE, it is broken down as follows:

1. Child Development and Learning (About 21 percent of test weighting)
   • Early childhood development from birth through age eight and factors that influence young children’s development and learning
   • The goals, benefits, types and uses of assessment
   • How to create positive indoor and outdoor learning environments for children age eight and younger
2. Language and Literacy Development (About 29 percent of test weighting)
   • Oral language development and how to promote listening and speaking skills in children age eight and younger
   • The foundations of literacy development in children age eight and younger
   • Instruction in reading and reading comprehension for children age eight and younger
   • Writing processes and strategies for developing children’s writing competence
3. Learning Across the Curriculum (About 36 percent of test weighting)
   • Music, drama, creative movement, dance and visual arts and how to facilitate arts learning for children age eight and younger
   • Health, safety and physical activity and how to facilitate learning about them for children age eight and younger
   • Mathematical concepts, processes and skills and how to facilitate mathematical learning for children age eight and younger
   • Social studies and concepts and how to facilitate social studies learning for children age eight and younger
   • Science concepts and skills and how to facilitate science learning for children age eight and younger
4. Professional Relationships and Responsibilities (About 14 percent of test weighting)
   • Strategies for building positive, collaborative relationships with children’s families, other professionals and community agencies
   • The roles and responsibilities of early childhood educators

What Content Is Covered by The OAE Assessment of Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (PK-3) Exam, The OAE Assessment of Professional Knowledge: Middle Childhood (4-9) Exam and The OAE Assessment of Professional Knowledge: Adolescence to Young Adult (7-12) Exam?

The OAE Assessment of Professional Knowledge: Early Childhood (PK-3), Middle Childhood (4-9) and Adolescence to Young Adult (7-12) exams each share three main sections and several subsections that cover the same content, as applicable to the age groups to which they pertain. Each exam contains 100 multiple-choice questions and two constructed response assignments, with 180 minutes granted for the completion of each exam. Per OAE, these exams are broken down as follows:

1. Student Development and Learning (About 24 percent of test weighting)
   • Processes of human development, variations in student development and applying this knowledge to provide instructional environments and experiences
   • Learning processes, factors that can affect student learning and performance and applying this knowledge to provide instructional environments and experiences
   • Student diversity and providing learning opportunities and environments that are responsive to student differences, promote all students’ learning and foster students’ appreciation of and respect for diversity
2. Assessment, Instruction and The Learning Environment (About 50 percent of test weighting)
   • Assessment instruments and practices, the relationship between assessment and instruction and how to use assessment to guide instruction and monitor students’ learning progress
   • Principles and procedures of curricular and instructional planning and how to use effective planning to design instruction that promotes all students’ learning
   • Principles and practices associated with various instructional approaches and how to apply these to promote all students’ achievement of instructional goals
   • Principles and practices of motivation and communication and how to apply these principles and practices effectively to promote students’ active engagement and learning
   • How to structure and manage the classroom to establish a safe, inclusive and positive environment
3. The Professional Environment (About 26 percent of test weighting)
   • How to establish partnerships and collaborate effectively with families, colleagues and members of the community
   • Understanding roles and expectations for professional educators, legal and ethical guidelines and strategies for continuous professional growth

Self-Assessment Modules

How Can I Get A Passing Score on All OAE Exams?

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