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Test Administrators
Last updated: 08/20/09
Test Administrators
Big Picture Objectives
• Be aware of what’s new this year in
OAKS
• Understand the roles and
responsibilities of test administrators
• Understand how to use valid test
administration practices
• Learn where to find test administration
resources and tools
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Test Administrators
Purpose: To ensure consistent statewide test
administration and valid test results.
Test Administration Resources:
• 2009–2010 Test Administration Manual
http://www.ode.state.or.us/go/tam
Promising Testing Practices
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2444
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Test Administrators
What’s new
OAKS Online
• Single central login for OAKS Portal
• OAKS Test Administrator Interface easier to
use
• ELPA will be integrated into OAKS Online
• Districts and schools will be able to restrict
access to OAKS online for students by
content area
• Piloting a Spanish Reading Assessment for
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What’s new (cont)
OAKS Online (cont)
• Adding Online Writing as an option for all
H.S. students. Piloting for students in 7th
grade
• An educator (human) will score each paper.
Autoscore score will be implemented as well.
• Focus groups regarding Text to Speech for
Math and Science
• Focus groups regarding enhancing the OAKS
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What’s new (cont.)
OAKS in general
• Implementation of Math core content standards.
(Science maybe implemented after an item review
is completed in the Fall.)
• Field testing items for new math standards.
• Achievement Standards will be set in Fall 2010,
adopted by the Board in December of 2010.
Tests administered in October, November and
December of 2010 will be scored against the
December 2010 achievement standards (even if
the new achievement standard is higher than the
achievement standard at the time the test was
administered).
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Test Administrators
Required Testing Environment
•Trained test administrator
•Quiet environment void of distractions
•Only allowable resources made available to
students upon request
•Limited interaction with students
– Read student directions
– Administer accommodations appropriately
– No coaching
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Test Administrators
Dos and Don’ts
Dos
•TAs must read the 2009-10 Test Administration Manual,
receive annual test administration and security training, and
sign an Assurance of Test Security form before
administering state tests.
•TAs may only provide upon request students with allowable
resources listed by content area in the 2009-10 Test
Administration Manual.
•TAs may only provide the version of allowable resources
provided by ODE. These are posted online at
http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/page/?=2346
•TAs must read verbatim the student directions provided by
content area in the 2009-10 Test Administration Manual.
•TAs must sign the Test Security form in order to administer
tests.
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Dos and Don’ts (cont)
Don’ts
•TAs may not allow untrained aides, volunteers, or
substitutes to assist with test administration.
•TAs may not coach students (including requiring
students to show their work).
•Students may not access non-allowable resources such
as textbooks or class notes
•Students must not talk to or help other students during
testing.
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Test Security
Dos and Don’ts
Dos
•TAs must ensure that students use the correct SSID
and take the correct test.
•TAs must securely shred test materials such as
reading passages, scratch paper, or other paper handouts written on by students after each testing event
•Test materials must be securely stored at all times
•Test improprieties must be reported to ODE within 1
day of learning of them and the investigation must be
completed within 30 days.
•If a DTC can not investigate an impropriety, the
district must assign someone else to the task
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Test Security
Don’ts
Dos and Don’ts (cont)
•TAs must not review or analyze secure test items
•Students must not access non-allowable resources
such as cell phones, iPods, or e-mail
•Students must not remove test materials from the
test environment
•TAs must not copy or retain any test materials,
including secure test booklets, writing prompts, or
reading passages
•DTCs, STCs, and TAs must not share their UMS
log-in information with anyone (even other
authorized UMS users)
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OAKS Online
Dos and Don’ts
Dos
• Online testing is mandatory for all schools.
Schools must offer OAKS Online to students.
• Students may take OAKS Online Math,
Reading, and Science tests up to three times per
year and OAKS Online Social Sciences tests up
to two times per year.
• Individual students may use paper/pencil tests
if it is specified on a student’s IEP or 504 Plan,
or if the district documents that the online test
is not the most appropriate assessment for the
student. Determination to use paper/pencil
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OAKS Online
Dos and Don’ts (cont)
Don’ts
• UMS users must not share their UMS log-in
information and passwords, even with other
authorized UMS users.
• Do not use last years OAKS browser. It is old
and moldy.
• Do not approve students to test until you’re
sure the students are taking the right test at the
right time.
• Do not approve a student to take the ELPA
unless LEP. It will be easy to make a mistake.
• Do not let tests linger, they will expire after 45
calendar days.
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OAKS Online
Common Login System
• Centralized login for instant access to multiple OAKS systems
– Via OAKS portal
– User has access to all systems (depending on security)
TA Interface
User Management System
Oaks Online Reports
Training Site
– Easily navigate between OAKS systems
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OAKS Online
Student Interface Changes
• Persistent strikethrough and highlighting until a
test is paused
• Time out due to inactivity increased to 40 minute
for printed reading passages
• Default is 20 minute time out otherwise.
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OAKS Online
UMS: Restrict Student Access
•Ability to restrict a specific student
from testing on content area basis
•A student’s test selection screen will
indicate if they are restricted from
taking a test (subject)
•DSA, DTSA can restrict within their
district
•TT, TA, STC can restrict within
their school
•Removing a restriction follows the
same rules and steps
•Search for restricted students within
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OAKS Online
Test Administrator Interface
• Sort by Test Grade or
Test Subject
• Ability to create ELPA
test sessions
• New Alert Messages
– Created by ODE
specifically for
Test Administrators
– TA acknowledgement is
required for each alert
message
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OAKS Online
Test Administrator Interface (cont)
•Approve Students in Multiple Subjects in the Same Session
–Multiple subjects within a session appear on the same approval screen
–Opportunity number for each student’s test is color-coded by
opportunity
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OAKS Online
Reporting Enhancements
1. Link to
Participation
Reports from
Portal
2. Apply Filters
3. New Features on a
Participation Report
•Session ID
•TA Name
•Student Progress on a test (ex: 6/40)
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OAKS Online
Reporting Enhancements (cont)
•Text codes will appear as
default:
Codes will be same as
those in Excel:
•DN = Does Not Yet Meet
•NM = Nearly Meets
•M = Meets
•E = Exceeds
•“Donut” symbols will still
be available; click [Toggle]
to activate.
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OAKS Online
Class Roster
• View highest overall scale score for each
student (default)
• Also, now able to view all test opportunities for
each student
• Exporting data:
Current view will be
exported to Excel
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OAKS Online
Promising Practices
• Before the start of the testing window, the
district exposes students to the
online test environment using the practice test
site.
• The district uses the practice test to identify
students for whom the online test is not the
most appropriate test and orders Paper/Pencil
tests for those students.
• The district restricts students from accessing
the Online test who should not use the system.
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Test Administrators
Promising Practices
•TA reviews the Test Administration Manual before
testing, focusing on test security and content-specific
allowable resources and accommodations.
•TA spaces students appropriately or provides visual
barriers to prevent students from seeing others’ tests.
•TA reads student directions verbatim and circulates
through test environment to ensure proper testing
conditions.
•TA makes available but does not require students to use
allowable resources.
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Test Administrators
In a Nutshell
• TAs must receive training each year
• TAs enforce valid test environment for students
• When in doubt about a particular testing
practice:
– Check the Manual
– Check your training notes
– Ask your School Test Coordinator
– If all else fails, assume the answer is “no”
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STC Training
In a Nutshell
• The Assessment options generally are the
same this year as last year
• ELPA will be integrated into OAKS Online
• Oaks Online Writing will be available to all
H.S. students
• STCs must ensure that a student does not use
OAKS Online in the content area in which a
student will use a paper test.
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STC Training
In a Nutshell (cont)
• STCs coordinate determination of
appropriate assessment options for students.
• STCs assist DTCs in ensuring that all test
administrators receive test administration
and security training.
• STCs ensure security of paper test materials
before, during, and after testing.
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