The

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The Who, What, When, Where, and Why Of TAKS
2007-2008
Where Do I Start?
Presented by Department of Assessment, Research
and Evaluation
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Whats New for 2008?

• New Tests
• Science LAT to be administered
• 8th Grade to have multiple SSI Assessments in
  Reading and Math
• Old Test New Names
• TAKS M (replaces SDAA II)
• TAKS Accommodated
• No LDAA test

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Whats New for 2008?

• New Procedures
• Seating charts required
• Linking of Administrators to Students
• Records held officially for 5 years
• Revised security oaths
• Just Plain New
• No Online TELPAS field testing (schedule for
  online STILL on track)
• Field Testing of TAKS-M in October
• No Charro Days interference
• TAKS Accommodation Manual will be released in
  draft form in August on the TEA website. The
  final version will be shipped to districts in
  December.

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Test TypesWho Takes What?

• TAKS
• The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills
  (TAKS) assesses the statewide curriculum, the
• Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
• 3rd grade students required to pass the Reading
  test, for promotion to 4th grade.
• 5th grade students required to pass the Reading
  and Math test for promotion to 5th grade.
• 8th grade students required to pass the Reading
  and Math test for promotion to 9th grade.
• 11th grade students required to pass the ELA,
  Math, Science and Social Studies test to graduate.

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Test TypesWho Takes What?

• TAKS Accommodated / Modified / ALT
• Not available for 504 students
• Only for students with an IEP are eligible

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Test TypesWho Takes What?

• Dyslexia Bundle Accommodation
• Available to special education students if the
  IEP includes dyslexia and dyslexia bundle
  accommodations is the same as this school year.
• OR Identified as Dyslexia by the students
  placement committee as required by Section 504.
• AND The student must routinely receive
  accommodations in classroom instruction and
  testing.

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Test TypesWho Takes What?

• TAKS M (2) Based on Modified Grade-level
  Achievement Standards (Are right above the 1
  TAKS-ALT students, are working below grade level
  and cant make 1 year of progress in 1 year of
  instruction.)
• Same content as TAKS but increased accessibility
  for students with disabilities
• Reading guidance
• Simplified vocabulary
• Simplified sentences
• Fewer steps
• Different Format
• Larger font size
• More white space
• Fewer questions per page
• Fewer answer choices

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• TAKS M (2)
• A testing option for students receiving special
  education services
• Available in all grades and subjects where TAKS
  is administered, except Spanish.
• Field testing will be required
• Grades 3-8, 10, October 8-12, 2007 for reading,
  math and science
• Writing, March 4th
• Math, Exit Level, April 30th
• Science, Exit Level, May 1st
• Social Studies, Grade 8th, 10th, Exit Level, May
  2nd
• Sample items and information booklets for TAKS-M
  will come later.
• SSI and TAKS-M, it is not known if there will be
  three versions of the TAKS-M, but there will not
  be other options.
• Will not have Dyslexia Bundled Accommodations

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• TAKS M (2) Mathematics Science
• Fewer items
• Reduced number of answer choices
• Verdana font and larger point size, more white
  space
• Simplified sentence structure, vocabulary, and
  graphics
• Formula/conversion/definition boxes added to some
  items
• Simplify numbers and number of steps
• Delete extraneous information
• Remove gridable and negative not items

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• TAKS M (2) Reading
• Fewer items
• Reduced number of answer choices
• Verdana font and larger point size, more white
  space
• Simplified sentence structure, vocabulary, and
  graphics in passages and item stems
• Delete extraneous information
• Chunking of passages according to items
• Pre-reading box added prior to passages
• Definition boxes added to figurative language
  items
• Paired passages become singleton
• Remove crossover items

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Test TypesWho Takes What?

• TAKS ALT (1)
• For the most significantly cognitively disabled
  students in all areas.
• Severe and profoundly disabled students
• Replaces the Functional LDAA test. There will not
  be a LDAA test this year.
• This is a performance assessment with a rubric
  scoring system. Teachers design activities for
  students to do and score them based upon the
  rubric.
• Teachers who conduct TAKS-Alt assessments must be
  trained. There are four TEA online training
  modules. (Are now available on-line.)
• Results are directly entered into an online
  system, however documentation must be kept at the
  campus for audit purposes.

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• TAKS ALT (1)
• Participation guidelines
• Online observation / documentation instrument
• 3 state-selected essence statements
• 3 teacher-selected essence statements
• State-required rubric
• Training online (Are available now on-line)
• Enhanced reporting options

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• QUIZ 1
• WHICH TEST(S) SHOULD THESE STUDENTS TAKE and What
  Modifications are available?
• TAKS
• TAKS Accommodated
• TAKS M
• TAKS ALT
• LAT

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• Andrew
• 9th Grade
• Identified G/T student
• With Dyslexia

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• Steve
• 10th Grade
• Regular Education Student
• 504 Student
• Attention Deficit Disorder

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• Salvador
• 11th Grade
• Special Education student
• Reading at 10th grade level
• Broken Arm

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• Elizabeth
• 9th Grade
• Special Education student
• Reading at 1st grade level

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• Samuel
• 10th Grade
• Recent immigrant, January 10th, 2008

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• Sharon
• 11th Grade
• 4th year Bilingual student
• Scored beginner on RPTE test in 2007
• Retained one year in ninth grade

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• Mike
• 9th Grade
• Regular Education
• Wheelchair student

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• Eva
• 10th Grader
• Special Education student
• Limited communication ability (speaking and
  writing)

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• Nick
• 11th Grade
• Regular Education Setting
• Blind
• On grade level math skills
• 7rd grade reading ability
• Science?
• Extra time?

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• Tiffany
• 9th Grade
• LEP
• 2nd year immigrant
• G/T

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Security
• All secure test materials must be locked up when
  not in use.
• Document to District Coordinator the location and
  who has access to locked storage room by
  September 28th.
• Oaths
• Everyone must sign a security oath before
  handling secure testing materials.
• Must keep signed security oaths on file for five
  calendar years.
• File them on your campus. Do not send them to
  CAB. They will be taken to CAB at the end of the
  school year.
• Must sign a new oath for EACH test
  administration.

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SECURITY OATHS

• State of Texas Texas Education
  Agency
• County of ________________
  Student Assessment Program
• 
  2008
• Oath of Test Security and Confidential Integrity
• for Campus Principal
• I do hereby certify, warrant, and affirm that I
  will fully comply with all requirements governing
  the State Assessment Program and do hereby
  certify the following
• (Initial each statement.)
• ______ I have received training in test security
  and general testing procedures
• ______ I am aware of my obligations concerning
  the proper administration of each assessment
• ______ all appropriate campus personnel have been
  trained and have signed an oath of test security
  and confidential
• integrity
• ______ I understand my obligations concerning the
  security and confidential integrity of the state
  assessments, and I am
• aware of the range of penalties that
  may result from a violation of test security and
  confidential integrity and
• ______ I am aware of my obligation to report any
  suspected violations of test security to the
  district testing coordinator.
• I do hereby further certify, warrant, and affirm
  that I will faithfully and fully comply with all
  requirements concerning test security and
  confidential integrity.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Student Testing Roster
• List of Testers
• List of Testing Rooms
• List of students and list of tests taken on any
  given day.
• List of students and room assignment on any given
  day.
• Seating chart and administrator assigned to those
  students while maintaining a 30 to 1 ratio.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Ordering Tests
• Test order forms will be e-mailed and must be
  sent back to Paul Johnson by October 1st. Field
  testing in October which requires tests to be
  ordered by 1st of October. (TAKS, TAKS A, TAKS
  Alt, TAKS M, LAT, Large Print, Braille and Oral)
• Additional orders must be made three weeks before
  testing and are only good for the current test
  administration. The additional tests must be
  ordered using the form sent by Paul Johnson.
  There should not be big changes in the number of
  tests ordered after October 1st.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Training
• Read the District and Campus Coordinator Manual
• Read the District And Campus Coordinator Manual
  Again
• Read Test Administrator Manuals
• Attend all District Trainings
• Ask Questions at District Trainings

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Training
• Your campus test administrators are worth their
  weight in gold, so treat them that way!
• Train them well and provide them with all of the
  tools they will need to do the best job possible.
• Support them and advocate for them every
  opportunity that arises!
• Communicate with all parties involved.
• Be knowledgeable about proper administration
  procedures of state assessments administered on
  your campus.
• Have an agenda and sign in for each and every
  training.
• Create a training calendar and provide it to
  Assessment by September 28th.
• Within a week of each training an agenda and
  sign-in sheet will be provided to Assessment.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Plan of Action
• Room Assignments
• Which rooms will be used and which test will be
  given in that room.
• List of students who will be in each room along
  with a seating chart.
• List of test administrators in each room.
• Monitors
• List of monitors and assignments

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What are my Responsibilities?

• My Plan
• Include in your plan who will take
• TAKS
• TAKS Accommodated
• TAKS M
• TAKS ALT.
• LAT
• Get plan approved by campus principal
• Communicate plan with all people involved.
• Communicate responsibilities to all people.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Special Accommodations
• List of students who will receive accommodations
  for testing.
• List of accommodations given to students for each
  test.
• Train each test administrator in use of
  accommodations for each test. (Accommodations
  must be used at least 51 of the time in both
  instruction and testing.)

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Breaks / Lunch
• Description of how a classroom break will be
  handled.
• Description of how lunch will be handled.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Important Web sites
• www.tea.state.tx.us
• k12testing.tx.ncspearson.com

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Worst case scenario
• It is possible for a fire alarm to sound during a
  test.
• It is possible for the electricity to go off
  during a test.
• It is possible for a student to bring a weapon to
  campus during a test.
• It is possible for a student to become sick
  during a test.
• It is possible for a test administrator to become
  sick during a test.
• What do you do? Where is your plan of action?

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Activities Before Testing Occurs
• Make sure that everyone knows the plan.
• Ensure that all appropriate personnel have been
  trained and sign an oath of test security and
  confidential integrity. (Each Administration)
• Account for all testing materials
• Verify Demographic Information
• Meet regularly with Special Education and
  Bilingual Committees/Staff. Gather ARD and LPAC
  testing information. Have them sign off on lists
  of students and testing information.
• Double check all lists the week before and the
  day before testing to ensure that every student
  is taking the appropriate test(s).

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Activities During Testing
• Actively monitor campus testing sessions to
  ensure proper testing procedures and security.
• Account for all materials.
• Be available to answer questions.
• Report testing irregularities and security
  violations immediately to the district test
  coordinator.

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Activities After Testing
• Account for all testing materials.
• Check Name, PEIMS, DOB and score coding. (Score
  codes can not be changed for AYP or
  Accountability after tests have been scored.)
• Turn in materials according to schedule sent out
  by Paul Johnson.

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Test Accommodations

• A testing accommodation is a change to the
  testing environment to assist a student with
  special needs so that assessment can mirror
  instruction as much as possible without
  invalidating test results.
• The decision to use a particular accommodation
  with a student should be made on an individual
  basis and should take into consideration both the
  needs of the student and whether the student
  routinely receives the accommodation in classroom
  instruction and testing. (51 of the time)

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• TAKS Accommodations (51 of the time)
• Signing/Translating Oral Instructions
• Signing or reading the writing prompt but only at
  the request of the student.
• May use colored transparencies or blank place
  markers.
• May use large-print or Braille versions of the
  test if in IEP.
• May give a small group or individual
  administration.
• May respond orally if disabled.
• May tape record written composition if disabled.
• May type written composition if disabled.

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• 3rd Grade Reading Assistance on TAKS Math
• Available to all grade 3 students
• NOT an oral administration.
• No reading assistance on answer choices.
• Reading of a word, phrase or sentence in a test
  question upon request of an individual student.

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• Alternative (TAKS Accommodated, TAKS M)
  Accommodations
• Must be documented in student IEP
• Should be used in regular instruction and testing
  with student at least 51 or more of the time.
• Almost any ARD documented accommodation is
  allowable except for accommodations on the NON
  allowable list and for accommodations that would
  invalidate the test. (If you do not know what
  these are, ask!!!!)

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• Dyslexia Accommodations (51 of the time)
• Only available for TAKS and TAKS Accommodated
  reading in grades 3-8. Not available for TAKS-M.
• Must be used as a bundle.
• Orally read all proper nouns to students for each
  passage before the student begins reading the
  passage.
• Orally read all questions and answer choices to
  students.
• Extend testing over two-day period.

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• LAT Accommodations
• The US Department of Education ruled that the
  RPTE could not be used as the reading test for
  ELL students in AYP accountability ratings.
• This year we will have TAKS LAT testing for Math,
  Reading and Science.

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• Oral Test Administration
• Available only to special education, Section 504
  and dyslexia students.
• Must be documented in students IEP (51 rule).
• Available for only the mathematics, social
  studies and science tests. (Not available for
  reading, writing, or ELA tests.)
• Consists of differing levels of reading support
  involving reading aloud questions and answer
  choices or signing questions and answer choices
  to the student. (Different from 3rd Grade Math
  reading assistance.)

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• Oral Test Administration cont.
• The level of reading support must be documented
  in the ARD or Section 504 documentation.
• Grouping or oral support may be necessary.
• Students may request a different level of reading
  support during testing. (more support or less
  support)

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Test Accommodations TAKS Accommodation Manual
will be in draft form in August.

• Use of Highlighters
• All students may use highlighters in any of the
  non-scorable test booklets to emphasize important
  information. However highlighters cannot be used
  in any scorable test booklet.
• Special Education students taking TAKS grade 3 or
  TAKS Accommodated or TAKS M consumable books must
  have ARD documentation to use highlighters but
  the test booklets (answer documents) must be
  transcribed.

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Non-allowableTAKS Accommodations

• No reading assistance, except 3rd math.
• No foreign-language reference materials.
• No calculators on math grades 3-8 or science
  grade 5, 8.
• No oral administration for writing, reading, or
  ELA tests.
• Test items cannot be translated.
• No rephrasing or clarification of test questions,
  answer choices, reading passages, or writing
  prompts.

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Non-allowableTAKS A and TAKS M Accommodations

• Test administrator may NOT provide any direct or
  indirect assistance that identifies the correct
  response.
• May not reduce the number of answer choices.
• Test booklets are secure documents and may NOT be
  photocopied onto colored paper. Answer documents
  may be copied onto colored paper but must then be
  transcribed verbatim onto a standard answer
  document for scoring.

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Testing Procedures

• At least one test administrator for every 30
  students.
• Testing Do Not Disturb signs posted on testing
  rooms.
• Bulletin Boards and instructional displays
  covered or removed. (Monitor the day before and
  day of testing)
• May take brief breaks in the testing room.
• Do not allow students to bubble in the
  demographic fields of the answer document.
• No cell phones, two-way telecommunication
  devices, or any other electronic recording
  devices ---students will be coded as O. (Post
  throughout the school.)

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Testing Procedures

• Provide dictionaries (English) for grade 7
  writing, 9th grade reading, and 10th-11th grade
  ELA. At least 1 for every 5 students. May
  provide ESL dictionaries for LEP students. (only
  use dictionaries provided by the campus)
• No Calculators except for math grades 9-11 and
  science grades 10th 11th. (only use calculators
  provided by and cleared by the campus)
• Must give students state-supplied rulers. CANNOT
  use other rulers.
• Students cannot leave or enter testing rooms with
  papers or other materials.

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Testing Procedures

• Must give students state-supplied math chart and
  science chart.
• Lunch breaks are OK, however students must remain
  as a group and monitored by a trained test
  administrator so they do not discuss the test.
• May change testing rooms as long as test security
  is not breached (must be monitored by a trained
  test administrator).
• Immediately after each test session, the test
  administrator must return test materials to the
  campus coordinator.

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Testing Procedures

• Test administrators are not allowed to answer any
  question relating to the content of the test
  itself.
• Test administrators must actively monitor
  students during testing.
• You cannot require students to use any particular
  test taking strategy such as first marking
  answers in test booklets. Students can use test
  taking strategies but you cannot require them to
  do so during the testing or provide tutorials
  at anytime during the testing.
• Test administrators cannot leave the room unless
  a trained substitute test administrator is
  present.

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Testing Procedures

• No scratch paper for any TAKS testing. Students
  must remain seated during testing and are not
  allowed to talk while test booklets are open.
• TAKS tests are untimed and accommodations should
  be made for students who continue testing after
  school hours. Testing times should be posted
  through out the school.
• Students are not allowed to work on a previous
  section of the test or a section that has not yet
  been administered.
• Proximity- pay attention to how students are
  arranged. Can one student see another students
  answer document?

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Testing Procedures

• Make-up Testing Procedures
• Must be absent on testing day to be eligible to
  take a make-up test.
• Make-up testing is permitted only for tests that
  are used for No Child Left Behind accountability.
• Reading Grades 3 -8
• ELA Grade 10
• Math Grades 3 8 and 10
• No Writing, No Science, No Social Studies

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Testing Irregularities

• Procedural / Monitoring Errors
• Improper Distribution Handling of Test
  Materials
• Use of Untrained Test Administrators or Monitors
• Improper / Incomplete Transcribing
• Handling Late Arrivals and Unfinished Testers
• Use of Electronic Devices, Cell Phones, ipods,
  etc.
• Watching TV during a break or lunch.

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Testing Irregularities

• Procedural / Monitoring Errors
• Reviewing a Test Before, During, or After an
  Assessment
• Hand Scoring Student Tests
• Discussing Secure Test Content or Student
  Responses
• Copying Secure Materials

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Testing Irregularities

• Eligibility Errors / IEP Errors
• Eligible Students Not Tested
• Students Tested With Incorrect Assessment
• LEP Exempt or Foreign Exchange Students Tested
• REMINDER In these cases, you will be
• required to contact parents to inform them of
• the error and an incident report will need to
• be filed with TEA and locally.

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Testing Irregularities

• Calendar Errors
• Administering Wrong Test on the Wrong Day
• Administering Assessments Outside Testing Window

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Testing Irregularities

• Missing / Late Return of Secure Materials
• Misplaced or Lost Answer Documents
• Misplaced or Lost Test Booklets
• Late Return of Secure Materials
• REMINDER Ensuring the return of
• secure materials are just as critical for
• answer documents as are the return of secure test
  books.

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Testing Irregularities

• Oral Administration Errors
• Failure to Administer Oral Test to Eligible
  Students
• Administering Oral Test to Ineligible Students
• Orally Administering Reading or Writing Tests
• Matching Forms Not Issued (Use of Form 1)

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Testing Irregularities

• Violations Resulting in a Referral
• Any action that directly or indirectly assists
  students with responses
• Clarifying or translating writing prompt or test
  items
• Gesturing, pointing, or demonstrating verbally or
  non-verbally correct responses
• Changing student responses
• Providing answers to test questions
• (TEA will refer irregularities to SBEC)

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Reporting Irregularities

• Something Happened !!
• What Do I DO ??
• Dont Panic (Remember your plan)
• Gather Complete Information
• Dont Assume Contact Mr. Vasquez or Paul
  Johnson if you have any questions about how to
  handle a problem. (572-3880, 554-2806
• Submit an Incident Report if appropriate to
  Assessment, we will file the report to TEA.
• If you are not sure, ASK !!!!!

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Reporting Irregularities

• Personal statements should include
• Individuals title
• Details regarding the incident
• Other individual(s) involved if appropriate
• Location where the incident occurred
• Date and subject area/grade level of the specific
  test administration
• Document corrective Action Plan
• Save copies of all documentation for your records.

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Reporting Irregularities

• Notify the Assessment Department immediately if
  you become aware of one of the following types of
  irregularities
• Teacher /test administrator intervention or
  assistance
• Unauthorized viewing, scoring, discussing or
  duplication of secure material

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Preventing Testing Irregularities

• Train Carefully
• Allow adequate time for training
• Issue manuals before training
• Train as many staff as possible and anyone who
  might come in contact with the testing
  environment
• Monitor and Observe During Testing
• COMMUNICATE
• Practice Good Inventory Control at All Levels
• Maintain WEEKLY DOCUMENTATION as to who
  testsreview information a week before AND the
  day before testing with campus staff
• Be available for Questions

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• QUIZ 2
• LETS PLAY
• A
• GAME
• NAME THAT TEST

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Name That Test

• 2 of district cap.
• TAKS M
• TAKS Accommodated can use this modification in
  reading if IEP includes this identification.
• Dyslexia Bundle
• Not Available for 504 students.
• TAKS Accommodated / Modified / ALT
• 1 of district cap.
• TAKS Alt
• Are working below grade level and cant make 1
  year of progress in 1 year of instruction.
• TAKS M

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Name That Test

• Will not have Dyslexia Bundled Accommodations.
• TAKS M / ALT
• Will have multiple assessments.
• TAKS TAKS Accommodated
• Only students with an IEP are eligible.
• TAKS Accommodated / Modified / ALT
• Severe and profoundly disabled.
• TAKS Alt
• SSI requirements do not apply to these tests?
• TAKS M TAKS Alt

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Monitoring

• District Monitors
• For each test administration monitors are
  assigned to campuses
• All trained monitors have signed an oath as a
  test administrator
• Monitors reports include a campus overview and in
  some cases individual classrooms
• You must monitor/review all testing rooms on
• campus the day before and each testing day.

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Active Monitoring

• Greater TEA emphasis for test security.
• Monitoring during test administrations is the
  responsibility of the testing campus test
  administrator/coordinator, the principal and the
  district test coordinator.

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What IS Active Monitoring

• Watching students during testing
• Walk around to better observe what students are
  doing. (Are students working on correct section
  of test, marking answers on the answer document,
  not cheating, not talking or communicating with
  other students, etc.?)

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What is NOTActive Monitoring

• Working on the computer or doing email.
• Reading a book, magazine, or newspaper.
• Grading papers or doing lesson planning.
• Leaving the room without a trained substitute
  test administrator in the room.
• Leaving students unattended during lunch or
  breaks.
• Reading the test over a students shoulder.
• Checking student responses during testing.

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Failure to ActivelyMonitor during Testing

• TEA is instructing district test coordinators to
  submit formal incident reports to the TEA
  Security Task Force for failures to actively
  monitor that result in testing irregularities.
• Central office monitors will document all
  observed failures to actively monitor during
  testing and share the reports with campus
  principals. In cases where the failure to
  actively monitor leads to a testing irregularity,
  then an incident report will be submitted to TEA.

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Field Testing

• So What Are the Differences?
• Same Security rules and security procedures.
• Same testing procedures.
• Submit answer documents for only students to
  actually take the test.

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Alternative Campusesand Testing

• All student testing at Alternative Campuses
  (PALL, BLA, BAC, Lincoln Park, JJAEP) must have
  answer sheets go back to their home campuses.
• Scorable answer documents must be included with
  your campus documents and counted under ID
  headers.
• Send only answer documents/labels to alternative
  campuses. They will have their own test booklets.
• All campuses will send a student testing roster
  to the district testing coordinator and the
  alternative campus at least the week before state
  testing and verify campus students testing
  assignments and accommodations. It will be a
  campus responsibility to know who is at the
  alternative campuses and their testing specifics.

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Alternative Campusesand Testing

• Must bubble in the 2 in column B of the Agency
  Use field for DAEP students to show that the
  student took the test in a disciplinary
  alternative education program setting.
• Must bubble in the 1 in column B of the Agency
  Use field for JJAEP students.

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Critical AccountabilityIssues

• Remember that once the answer documents are
  received by the State then no changes for
  purposes of accountability will be allowed.
• Your accountability ratings (State and Federal)
  depend upon proper coding of answer documents
  (demographics, score codes, etc.).
• Check and double check proper coding
• before turning in answer documents. Your
• accountability rating depends on proper
• coding.

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Delivery Pick UpOf Materials

• Materials are counted by campus prior to leaving
  warehouse and signed for
• Materials are counted by Assessment upon return
• Answer documents will be randomly reviewed

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Duplication of Written Compositions

• Districts may make and retain a copy of the
  students written composition and open-ended
  items for grades 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11.
• Districts may NOT make and retain copies of the
  grade 10 ELA make-up written compositions or
  open-ended response items.
• Written compositions must be secured and cannot
  be distributed or discussed until the date
  established in the testing calendar.
• Absolutely nothing else can be duplicated except
  the proper nouns lists for dyslexia
  accommodations.
• The District is going to purchase PDF versions of
  the written compositions and open-ended item
  responses from the testing contractor so that we
  will not have to make copies.

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Other Key Resources

• ARD MANUAL
• LPAC ASSESSMENT MANUAL
• QUESTION ANS DOCUMENTATION FROM TEA
• SECURITY MANUALS --- TEA

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• QUIZ 3
• NOW YOU KNOW
• IT ALL
• ?????
• CAN YOU FILL OUT AN ANSWER DOCUMENT FOR OUR TEN
  STUDENTS?

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• Questions ????