Transcript to training PPT - Sunnyvale Independent School District
Slide 1
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 2
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 3
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 4
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 5
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 6
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 7
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 8
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 9
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 10
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 11
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 12
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 13
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 14
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 15
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 16
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 17
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 18
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 19
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 20
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 21
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 22
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 23
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 24
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 25
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 26
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 27
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 28
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 29
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 30
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 31
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 32
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 2
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 3
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 4
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 5
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 6
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 7
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 8
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 9
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 10
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 11
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 12
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 13
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 14
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 15
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 16
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 17
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 18
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 19
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 20
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 21
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 22
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 23
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 24
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 25
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 26
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 27
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 28
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 29
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 30
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 31
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
•
■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
•
■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
•
■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
•
■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
•
If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
•
You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
•
The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
•
Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
•
The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
•
(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
•
Texas Administrative Code
•
19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
•
•
•
•
•
Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
-
placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
-
issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-
suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
-
revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
•
Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
•
Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
•
IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
1.
2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
•
•
•
•
Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.
Slide 32
STAAR Training 2014-2015
Sunnyvale Middle School
March 3, 2015
Mrs. McAda vs.
Testing Coordinator
Mrs. McAda
Smiles/Sweet Counselor
Will try to help you in
ANY WAY I CAN!
Works hard to please you
& make you stress free &
healthy!
TC
Testing Coordinator
Zero Tolerance!
Working hard to keep
us out of trouble!
Sunnyvale Middle School
Way to go!
• 1 Testing Irregularities last year for SMS
• You write a letter, I write a letter, both
submitted to TEA= not fun!
Active Monitoring
•
Active monitoring means test administrators must be actively engaged while students are working on the test, moving
about the room so they can be more aware of students’ actions.
•
SMS teachers may not sit behind their desk. You should put a stool/chair in the front of the room so you can closely monitor
students.
•
Please do not read a book, magazine or grade papers.
•
No one should be behind their computer.
•
It is considered appropriate for you to be up and walking around the room every 20-30 minutes and making sure not to
stand by any one person for a long period of time.
•
Test administrators should confirm that students are working only on the section of the test being administered that day
•
Students should not have materials available that are not allowed such as ballpoint pens, cell phones, or other electronic
devices.
•
Students should also be reminded periodically, either as a group or individually, to bubble their responses on the answer
document within the 4 hours time limit.
•
Principals, administrators, and campus test coordinators must confirm that test administrators are actively monitoring in
each testing room.
•
Failure to actively monitor during testing is now considered a test irregularity.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
•
This training does NOT take the place of reading the appropriate administration manual. You
can find a copy of the manuals on the TEA website under Test Administration Manuals.
•
All Test Administrators will stay in test room with students except for brief restroom breaks.
Forms will be provided for documentation to show administrator changes. Please tell
students that administrators will be peeking in the rooms and not to pay them any attention.
•
Do NOT have your window covered on testing days.
•
Bulletin boards and instructional displays that might aid examinees during testing must be
covered or removed. Desks should not be in pairs. I will check this the afternoon before the
test. All rooms must be ready to go before you leave.
•
A “Testing—Do Not Disturb” sign should be posted outside the testing room.
•
Ensure that the Seating Chart has been completed preferably before testing day, including
the names of examinees testing and the examinees’ locations in the room. Also include the
names of all test administrators involved in the session. If examinees are moved to another
room to finish testing, an additional seating chart must be completed.
Proper Testing Procedures continued
All answers must be marked on an answer document with a No. 2 pencil.
Answers marked in the test booklet will NOT be scored. Pencils will be
provided for students, please only allow the students to use these!
Test administrators are not allowed to require examinees to first mark
their answers in the test booklet and then transfer them to the answer
document.
Examinees may be allowed to use highlighters and colored pencils in the
test booklet to emphasize important information on a subject-area
test. Highlighters will be provided, please only use these.
Examinees must remain seated during testing. They are not allowed to
talk to one another while test booklets are open.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
■ Some examinees may finish a test earlier than others. After their test materials have been
collected, examinees may be allowed to quietly read books. They are not allowed to draw or
sleep, only read a book.
■ Only examinees are allowed to erase their stray marks or darken answer-choice circles, and
only during the scheduled test session. Please check scantrons as they turn them in. Have
students go back and clean up stray marks.
■ Before an examinee leaves the room, the test administrator must inspect the completed
answer document to be sure the examinee has recorded his or her answers. If the examinee
has not done so, the test administrator must say, “You have not recorded all of your answers
on the answer document. Please go back and record your answers on it now.” The testing
materials should then be returned so that the examinee may record his or her answers. Test
administrators may look at answer documents only to verify that responses are recorded.
They may not look at or comment on answers to individual items.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
• Answering Questions
• Test administrators may answer questions about test directions or
procedures. Test administrators are NOT allowed to answer any questions
related to the content of the test itself. If an examinee asks a question
that you are not permitted to answer, you may respond, for example, “I
can’t answer that for you; just do the best you can.” Test administrators
and school personnel are NOT allowed to
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■ translate test questions (including the written composition
prompt) into another language; (except sign language);
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■ rephrase or add information to questions or the prompt;
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■ discuss test questions with anyone before, during, or after
testing; or
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■ score test items or discuss with examinees how they performed.
Proper Testing Procedures Continued
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If an examinee asks a question about the prompt, the test administrator may say, “I can’t
explain it to you; just respond to the prompt in the best way you can.”
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You are responsible for test security and confidentiality in your testing room. If a situation
arises that you do not know how to resolve, contact McAda. Report in writing any violations
of test security and confidentiality to your campus coordinator. You must sign the bottom of
your oath after the entire administration has been completed to affirm that you have
complied with state assessment requirements.
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The contents of test booklets and answer documents with examinee responses are
considered secure materials at all times. No unauthorized viewing, discussion, or scoring is
allowed.
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Immediately after each test session, return the test materials that your campus coordinator
distributed to you, including your test administrator manual, we have to
use these all year.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Restroom Breaks
• You will have a girls restroom pass and a boys restroom pass. There
will be monitors in the hallway to make sure only one examinee at a
time is allowed in the restroom.
• Lunch Grades 5 and 6
• Instruct examinees to place their answer documents inside their
test booklets. Collect the booklets and place them in locked
storage. Examinees must remain together as a group and be
closely monitored by a trained test administrator to ensure they
do not discuss the contents of the test.
• Grades 7 and 8, you should finish testing before lunch.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Cell Phone Use
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The use of cell phones during testing is not permitted. Districts are required to
develop a policy for cell phone use that serves their needs while preserving the
security and confidentiality of the testing program. A cell phone statement will be
included on the Checklist. Take up cell phones, put sticky note with student’s
name on it, place it in a ziplock baggie (provided) and put it in teacher’s desk.
When classes are merged, students not finished testing moved out, please give the
cell phone for that student to the new testing administrator and phones may be
handed back out to students completed with testing. Students may not call to be
picked up when finished. No parents can come to lunch this day.
• Emergencies
• Occasionally an emergency will arise, and a student may need to
leave the testing room. Contact McAda (Ext. 2510) or Tish (Ext.
2525). Do not allow students to go to the clinic or leave the room
without contacting McAda.
New STAAR Info/Changes
There is no more STAAR M, STAAR A has replaced it and Cowden helped
decide which students would benefit from this.
STAAR Alt is standardized and was completed in February by Melissa
James.
STAAR Standardized Oral Administration (SOA)
(Available, but SMS not opting to use it this year.)
Math Dates changed after scantrons were printed. Be very active in
monitoring students working on Reading test, make sure they leave Math
section blank! When they take the Math test, we will have to do this again
to make sure Math section is left blank! JEEZ!!
Test Security-It’s the Law!
• Texas Education Code (TEC)
• Sec. 39.0301. SECURITY IN ADMINISTRATION OF
ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS. (a) The commissioner:
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(1) shall establish procedures for the
administration of assessment instruments adopted
or developed under Section 39.023, including
procedures designed to ensure the security of the
assessment instruments; and …
Test Security-It’s the Law!
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Texas Administrative Code
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19 TAC §101.3031(b) Test administration procedures. These test administration
procedures shall be delineated in the test administration materials provided to
school districts and charter schools annually. Districts and charter schools must
comply with all of the applicable requirements specified in the test administration
materials. Test administration materials shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
general testing program information;
requirements for ensuring test security and confidentiality described in the 2013
Test Security Supplement provided in this subsection; Figure: 19 TAC
§101.3031(b)(2)
procedures for test administration;
responsibilities of personnel involved in test administration; and
procedures for materials control.
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Investigating & Reporting
Testing Irregularities
• Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program
is responsible for reporting any suspected violation of test security
or confidentiality. Campus staff should notify their campus or
district testing coordinator, and district coordinators should, in turn,
notify TEA.
• Incidents that result in a deviation from documented testing
procedures are defined as testing irregularities, falling into one of
two categories – procedural or serious.
Testing Irregularities
• Serious
210
• Procedural
5177
• Total
5387
Testing Irregularities
• Procedural Irregularities
- reflect minor errors or deviations in testing procedures
- do not represent severe breaches in security or confidentiality
- do not require a call to TEA unless guidance is needed by the district
- do not require supporting documentation
- To prevent, please follow checklists! =)
Testing Irregularities
• Serious Irregularities
- constitute severe violations of test security or confidentiality
- can result in the individual(s) responsible being referred to the TEA
Educator Certification and Standards Division for consideration of
disciplinary action
- must be investigated by the district coordinator immediately
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional
Conduct that constitutes a severe violation of test administration procedures
(serious irregularities) may include, but is not limited to, the actions listed
below.
- changing or altering an examinee’s response or answer to a test item
- providing, suggesting, or indicating to an examinee a response or
answer to a secure test question (this includes suggesting that the
examinee review or change his or her response)
- aiding or assisting an examinee with a response or an answer to a test
question
Violation of Security and
Confidentiality
• Serious = Intentional (continued)
- duplicating secure test materials
- disclosing the contents of any portion of a secure test
- viewing a test before, during, or after an assessment unless specifically
authorized to do so (INTELLECTUAL THEFT)
- encouraging or assisting an individual to engage in the conduct
described above
- failing to report to an appropriate authority that an individual engaged
in any of the events listed above
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Violation of security or confidentiality of any test required by the
Texas Education Code (TEC) Chapter 39, Subchapter B, is
prohibited.
A person who engages in conduct prohibited by the Test Security
Supplement and in other test administration materials may be
subject to a sanction of credentials. This includes any person
who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to
participate in the violation of test security or confidentiality.
Additionally, this includes any person who fails to report such a
violation.
Penalties for Serious
Violation of Security
Penalties for participation in a serious violation of test security or
confidentiality may include the following reprimands:
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placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a
Texas teacher certificate
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issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
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suspension of a Texas teacher certificate
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revocation or cancellation of a Texas teacher certificate
Testing Irregularities
The types of serious testing irregularities reported in 2014 include
– assistance,
– unauthorized viewing or recording of test content,
– discussing secure test content,
– scoring/working students’ tests,
– tampering, and
– falsifying TELPAS/STAAR Alternate data.
Student Cheating
• If a district determines that a student is involved in a cheating incident,
either by providing or receiving assistance, the district is required to
invalidate the student’s test.
• The district should contact TEA immediately if a student electronically
captures (e.g., cell phone picture) any portion of a test or an answer
document.
• Any disciplinary actions taken locally against a student for cheating must
be reported to TEA using the Locally Determined Disciplinary Action (LDDA)
online form.
Reminder:
STAAR Test Session Time Limits Reminders
• Test administrators must use a clock or timer.
• Test administrators must communicate (orally or in writing) the amount of time
left to test in one-hour intervals.
• Students must record all responses on the scantron by the end of the test
session time period.
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Start and stop times must be recorded on the seating chart (Start time after
directions are read and Stop time is when the last person in your group
finishes the test.) Note individual completion time on the student log.
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Grade level will wait in testing mode until the last student in that grade is
finished testing.
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IF students get extra time…remind them!
Allowable for all
Students
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2.
Signing test administration directions
Translating directions into the native language of an English language
learner
3. Allowing a student to read test aloud to self
4. Reading aloud or signing personal narrative, expository, literary, or
persuasive writing prompt.
5. Providing reading assistance on the grade 3 math test
6. Making assistive tools available.
-scratch paper -color overlays -highlighters
-blank place markers – magnifying devices
7. Giving permission for students to use tools to minimize distractions (stress
ball)
8. Allowing individual and small group administrations
9. Gently reminding students to stay on task
Allowable for all
Students
• Students may use scratch paper.
• Reference material and graph paper written on and removed from test
booklets along with all scratch paper used by students must be destroyed
immediately after the test session is completed.
• Please remove all scratch paper, charts, etc. and make a stack inside your
testing bucket when you return your testing materials. Do not leave them
all inside the testing booklets. This will help me so much!
Which students are eligible for
accommodations?
• Applies to students taking STAAR, STAAR Spanish, STAAR L, STAAR
Modified, and TELPAS
• For purposes of statewide assessments, a student needing
accommodations due to a disability includes
• a student with an identified disability who receives special education
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with an identified disability who receives Section 504
services and meets established eligibility criteria for certain
accommodations
• a student with a disabling condition who does not receive special
education or Section 504 services but meets established eligibility
criteria for certain accommodations
What accommodations are
available?
What does Routinely, Independently,
and Effectively Mean?
• Routinely
• Used often enough that the student is familiar with and comfortable using
accommodation on a statewide assessment
• Not necessarily used every day or in every class
• Independently
• Only applicable to some accommodations (e.g., applies to use of a
calculator but not to an oral administration)
• Effectively
• Accommodation meets student needs as evidenced by data and
observations with or without accommodation use.
Ensure Proper Testing Procedures
• Changing Testing Rooms
• Occasionally I will move students to a new testing room. Please
do not merge students to a new room on your own! Please wait
for Mrs. McAda to come around and do this. Examinees may
NOT carry their own test booklets to the new testing room.
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Keys to Success
Start promptly Ayo’s announcement
Provide secure environment
Follow directions on checklist
Checklists and Stuff
• Each test administrator will receive a checklist
to follow on the day of testing. PLEASE
FOLLOW THIS CAREFULLY! If you don’t know
what you should do, ASK, don’t ASSUME!
• Signs to hang on doors and other passes.