Administration Code for Kentuckys Educational Assessment Program 703 KAR 5:080

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Administration Code for Kentuckys Educational
Assessment Program703 KAR 5080
Review of

• Office of Assessment and Accountability
• Kentucky Department of Education

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Kentucky Department of education

• Web address
• www.education.ky.gov

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Appropriate Assessment Practices

• Requires annual training for all individuals
  involved in any component of the state assessment
• Annually read and comply with documents and
  manuals specific to the state-wide assessment

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Goals of the Revision Process

• Placed in writing the policy advice the Office of
  Assessment and Accountability has been giving
  districts.
• Clarified language around frequently asked
  questions and common misconceptions.
• Improved format for ease of use.

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Goals of the Revision Process

• Removed repetitive language.
• Provided rules consistent with national
  assessments.
• Updated and removed statements that did not apply
  to the current assessment system.

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703 KAR 5080Table of Contents

• Rationale
• Appropriate Assessment Practices
• Violations of the 703 KAR 5080 Administration
  Code
• Review of Secure Assessment Components
• Proper Reporting of Nonacademic Indicators
• Signature Page

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Administration Code Format

• ACCEPTABLE

• NOT ACCEPTABLE

• Positive statement
• Related Topics are clustered
• Lines are used to separate topics

• Negative statement
• Related Topics are clustered
• Lines are used to separate topics

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Administration Code Format

• Each statement in the Administration Code is a
  stand-alone direction regardless of the column
  heading.
• New or revised statements are highlighted in
  color on this PowerPoint.

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Rationale

• Professional Ethics
• Actions consistent with the teaching profession
• Educational Defensibility
• Focus on instruction not the increase of test
  scores
• Student Ownership
• All work done entirely by the student

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II. APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES
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Test Security

• DACs, administrators, and teachers shall ensure
  the security of the assessment materials before,
  during, and after test administration.
• When not being used for a scheduled testing
  session, all assessment materials shall be stored
  in a secure location with access granted to
  authorized personnel only.

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Test Security

• Proctors may not copy, take notes, discuss,
  reveal any secure test item to others or use
  items to prepare students for testing.
• Alert student responses may be copied by
  administrators or BACs.
• Electronic devices with wireless communication
  capability are prohibited (i.e. cell phones).

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Reporting Errors
Do not reproduce test item!
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Classroom Materials Surfaces

• Content information or strategies/processes
  cannot be displayed on any classroom surface,
  including clothing.
• Materials containing content information or
  strategies/processes added to classroom surfaces
  during instruction must be removed or covered
  during the assessment.
• Periodic tables and motivational-type posters may
  remain.

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Important questions to ask

• Does the classroom material contain content
  information?
• Does the classroom material contain steps,
  processes or strategies to solve-problems or
  answer questions?
• Has the classroom material been used directly to
  teach content or strategy information?
• If the answer is YES to any, remove or cover.
• If uncertain of the answer to any, remove or
  cover.

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Water cycle
Remove or COVER
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Math Counts!
Remove or COVER
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My pyramid
Remove or COVER
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Become a Healthier You!
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4 Column Method Chart
Remove or COVER
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Uncle Sam
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Word Wall
Remove or COVER
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Remove or COVER
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Periodic TABLE
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Classroom Materials

• Current assessments allow every student to have
  calculators, blank writing or graph paper, clear
  or colored overlay sheets and bookmarks without
  content or strategies.
• Test-specific manuals outline what classroom
  materials may be provided during testing.

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Administration Practices
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• General Instructions
• Do your best
• Stay on task
• Assistance or Evaluative Comments
• You can do better.
• You can write more.

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Students with Accommodations

• Accommodations for assessment shall be consistent
  with a students current IEP, 504 or PSP.
• Accommodations for one student shall not
  interfere or influence the assessment of another
  student.

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Testing Schedules

• All students in the same grade level in the same
  school must be simultaneously assessed in the
  same content area.
• Students that are absent should resume testing
  with their class in the section that the class is
  testing.

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Testing Schedules

• Time Limits and extended time for each assessment
  must be followed per the administration manual.
• Students with extended time as an accommodation
  on an IEP, 504 Plan or PSP may have additional
  time during that school day.

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Which classroom has adequate space for the
movement of proctors?
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Test Preparation

• When not testing, students are to be involved in
  instruction.
• Preparation for testing activities and content
  review embedded in instruction.
• Preparation courses with no link to curriculum
  are prohibited.

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Good Faith Effort

• Can include pre-writing requirement (type to be
  determined by the student)
• Cannot require complete first drafts
• Cannot include evaluative statements or grade
  assignments of test answers
• Cannot give feedback until after test booklets
  are returned to the BAC or DAC

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Rewards or Motivational Strategies

• Shall be consistent with those applied within the
  regular curriculum or with the larger school
  program in general and attainable year round for
  student achievement.

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Funding of rewards

• Follow School Food Services Guidelines and local
  and state boards finance policies.
• Local school board funds or cash awards from
  school activity funds generated by students shall
  not be used for student incentives.
• ESS funds shall not be used for test
  preparation.
• Donations from individuals, businesses, parents
  or school staff can be used for student
  incentives.

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Writing Portfolio Development

• Teachers Peer Tutors may
• Ask questions to clarify, indicate position of
  errors, share scoring rubric
• Allow time in the classroom for development and
  some student work outside of class
• Teachers Peer Tutors may not
• Make direct corrections, revisions, working after
  completion date (First day of testing window )
• Spend excessive time on portfolio development and
  conferencing

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Writing Portfolios

• Typewritten pieces are not required for the
  Writing Portfolio. Pieces can be handwritten.
• If typewritten is desired, students should type
  their own Writing Portfolios unless physically
  unable to do so.
• If a student using ASL has a scribe, the scribe
  must use the grammatical equivalent of English
  without adding to or elaborating on the content.

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New Students

• Teachers are responsible for continuing the
  development of portfolios for newly enrolled
  students transferring from other Kentucky
  schools/districts.
• Failure to provide writing instruction and work
  toward completion of a writing portfolio for a
  newly enrolled student is unacceptable.

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Writing Portfolio Scoring

• Certified staff
• Teacher or administrator certification
• Employed by district
• Certified or classified position or leave of
  absence
• Current year training
• Assigning performance levels (N,A,P,D) to a
  completed portfolio prior to official scoring is
  prohibited.

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Inclusion of Special populations

• Those providing accommodations must be trained in
  Administration Code and how the student uses
  accommodations.
• Accommodations during an assessment shall be
  consistent with 703 KAR 5070, Procedures for the
  Inclusion of Special Populations

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Alternate assessment

• Students in program have primary ownership of
  assessment pieces.
• Yearly training for administration is required.
• Alternate Assessment components are secure
  materials.
• Altering results of Alternate Assessment
  components is prohibited.

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III. Violations of the Administration Code for
Kentuckys Educational Assessment Program
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Reporting Allegations

• All allegations, or perceived inappropriate
  testing procedure or behavior, should be reported
  to the Building Assessment Coordinator (BAC) and
  then to the District Assessment Coordinator
  (DAC).

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Alleged Testing Violation Process
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IV. Review of Secure Assessment Components by
Parents and Persons not in the Employment of a
Kentucky Public School District
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Review of Secure Materials

• Parents and Others not employed by a Kentucky
  Public School District may review secure
  materials at the KDE office in Frankfort and not
  at the local district.
• A nondisclosure statement must be signed before
  reviewing secure assessment components.

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V. Proper Reporting of Nonacademic Indicators
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Nonacademic Data

• Local districts shall
• report data to KDE.
• inform KDE of any errors in reporting.
• Data that is reported is lagged by one year.
• Example Information reported in fall will be
  information regarding students in the prior
  school year.

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VI. Signature Page
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Signature Page 1 page/person
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Questions?

• Contact the Office of Assessment and
  Accountability
• Division of Assessment Support
• 502-564-4394
• dacinfor_at_education.ky.gov