WA OER Hub - Submission Guidelines and Quality Review (doc)
WA OER Hub - Submission Guidelines and Quality Review (pdf)
Washington OER Hub - Submission Guidelines and Quality Review Criteria
Overview
This document provides background on how resources are submitted to Groups, reviewed, and filtered into Learning Collections on the Washington OER Hub.
The criteria are designed to be adapted for any content area to evaluate lessons that may extend over a few periods or days or units that include integrated and focused lessons. The criteria are NOT designed to evaluate a single task or stand-alone activity.
Background
What is the Washington OER Hub?
The Washington OER Hub is an online library of free, standards-aligned, high-quality K–12 learning and teaching materials created by and curated for Washington educators.
Who develops materials for the Washington OER Hub?
Materials are added to the Washington OER Hub via the following pathways:
- Existing OSPI material
- External P\partners and state organizations
- Collaborative development with educators
- Curation by OSPI content leads and educator partners
- Grants
What is the review process?
Different phases of the review process are outlined below. Review criteria for the Washington OER Hub resources are detailed in the downloadable documents.
Working Group: Resources meeting Submission Criteria are added to a working group.
Who: OSPI staff, grantees, contractors, and collaborators
Learning Collections: Resources meeting Learning Collection Criteria are added to one or more curated learning collections.
Who: OSPI group administrator or designee
OSPI Reviewed Badge: Select resources meeting OSPI Reviewed Criteria are marked with the OSPI reviewed badge.
Who: WA OER Hub Administrator
How do I suggest a resource or request resource reconsideration?
Submit a written request to oer@k12.wa.us. Your request must include the following:
- Your name and organization, if applicable
- Proposed resource name and link, if currently online, or copy of the material
- Confirmation the resource meets the submission criteria outlined in this document
Following review, you will be contacted with more information regarding adding the resource.
How do I request resource removal?
Submit a written request to oer@k12.wa.us. Your request must include the following:
- Your name and organization, if applicable
- Challenged resource name and link
- List of the Washington OER Hub Resource Criteria in question along with specific evidence from the resource that supports your claim.
- Suggestions for any adaptations or corrections.
Following review, you will receive a response to your inquiry within 30 days.
Submission Criteria
Resource Submission Criteria |
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Permitted Use – License (select one) |
o Openly licensed - Creative Commons license or other open license is clearly marked on the resource o Public domain - copyright has expired or the work has been dedicated to the public domain - more details o Free online viewing - resource might be under all rights reserved copyright but clearly states it is intended for educational use (Learning Collections ONLY) Unacceptable content
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Appropriate Material Type (select one) |
o Lesson/unit/full course - not a stand-alone activity unless approved by group administrator o Professional learning resource o Learning guidance/strategy document (e.g. annotated weblink) Unacceptable content
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Resource: |
Explicitly addresses one or more grade level Washington Learning Standards, development guidelines, or benchmarks. |
Meets stated grant requirements for developed content – if applicable |
Meets any additional discipline-specific criteria added by your working group administrator – if applicable |
Learning Collection Review Criteria
Learning Collections provide a curated selection of Washington developed resources as well as links to external organizations providing quality online educational materials.
Resource Criteria |
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In addition to meeting the submission criteria, the resource: |
Offers clear instructional purpose and directions, including explicit learning objectives or goals. |
Delivers accurate and relevant content which is up-to-date for rapidly evolving topics. |
Provides developmentally and culturally appropriate content, free of bias or stereotyping. |
Engages students through authentic problems or contemporary issues relevant to their communities. |
Features an easily comprehensible design with clear technological specifications if applicable. |
OSPI Reviewed Badge Criteria
These criteria are in addition to the submission and Learning Collection Review criteria.
Meets criteria identifies resource strengths while partially meets criteria or criteria not met highlight areas requiring adaptation or supplemental instruction.
For some resources, certain criteria may not be applicable. Based on the nature of the resource, use your professional judgement to gauge when it is appropriate to add a not applicable score to the item.
Note that a resource reviewed with a tool from a reputable external organization with similar criteria will also be accepted (i.e. EQuIP rubric, NGSS Screener).
Resource Criteria |
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Teaching Strategies |
Collaboration: Purposely includes activities in which students work together to co-create and communicate meaning. |
Literacy Skills: Teaches academic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary) to help students develop language and literacy while learning content. |
Analysis: Supports evidence-based reasoning and encourages critical thinking and problem solving. |
Culturally responsive and sustaining practices: reflects the rich cultural diversity and varied life experiences of all students. If applicable, resources feature diverse groups in various roles, showcase a wide array of perspectives and contributions, and promote inclusion and belonging through imagery, language, and family depictions that resonate with students' diverse backgrounds. |
Instructional Supports |
Multiple Representations: Content, concepts and skills are represented in more than one way. Images, graphic organizers, media, and/or text are purposefully included. |
Teacher Guidance: Provides strategies for teachers to elicit and instructionally respond to their students’ prior knowledge, interests, and identities. Suggests potential differentiation strategies. |
Connections: Students are asked to make connections to other lessons/units, across content areas, to their community, and with their own experience, fostering student agency. |
Assessment |
Formative assessment: Provides methods to identify and monitor student progress toward meeting targeted learning standards. |
Peer and self-assessment: Provides opportunity for student reflection, ownership of learning, and monitoring of personal progress. May include peer feedback. |
Summative assessment (optional): Provides tools for students to demonstrate meeting or exceeding the targeted learning standards. |
Other |
Resource is designed to support learners across a broad range accessibility needs - ADA compliance, |
The resource supports the inclusion of practices that build upon student strengths and support resilience, enhance social-emotional wellness, and support the whole child. |
If lesson has been designed using AI, prompts used in generating content are provided and human review for accuracy and relevance is confirmed. |
Additional Review Information
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This rubric IS designed to be adapted for any content area to evaluate:
- Lessons that include activities and assessments that may extend over a few periods or day
- Units that include integrated and focused lessons that extend over a longer period of time
The rubric is NOT designed to evaluate a single task or stand-alone activity.
Intended Use
Review existing supplemental lessons and units on the Washington OER Hub and/or in the classroom
Inform the development of new lessons and units
- Build the capacity of educators to evaluate and improve the quality of instructional materials for use in their classrooms and schools.
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For collaborative review of core instructional materials,
please use the use the extended suite of rubrics found in the OSPI
Course Design and Instructional Materials Review Toolkit.
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The Washington Quality Review Rubric for Lessons & Units by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is based on the EQuIP rubric facilitated by Achieve. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. All logos and trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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