Exploring the Documents

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Exploring the Documents

• Decide if the situation is a violation or not a
  violation.
• Cite the page and paragraph number from the
  document(s) to support your decision.

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Situation 1

• Teacher distributed blank graph
• paper for students to use during the
• mathematics assessment.
• Not a Violation
• Page 7 - Classroom Materials
• Acceptable, paragraph 6

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Situation 2

• Senior English teacher allowed
• students to complete portfolios after
• due date (first day of testing
• window).
• Violation
• Page 14 Portfolio Development
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 3

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Situation 3

• Student used a dictionary while
• taking the social studies test.
• Violation
• Page 7 Classroom Materials
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 3

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Situation 4

• Testing contractor discovered four Student
• Response Booklets with Post-it notes.
• Handwriting on Post-its didnt match student
• writing. Teacher identified writing on Post-its
• as her own. Changes in answers appeared
• to be influenced by notes.
• Violation
• Page 7 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1 2

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Situation 5

• Scribe wrote answers on sheet of paper
• for a student with disabilities who can
• have a scribe. Student was required to
• copy answers into a Student Response
• Booklet as he had done throughout the
• school year.
• Not a Violation
• Page 18-19 Inclusions
• Use of Scribes

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Situation 6

• Teacher visually scanned student test booklets
• at the end of the day to make sure scrap paper
• was removed and to see if students had
• answered all questions. He noticed one student
• had written about plans to commit suicide.
• Teacher photocopied the students entry and
• took it to the principal.
• Violation
• Page 5 Test Security
• Acceptable, paragraph 5

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Situation 7

• Student began test then left for a
• doctors appointment. When
• student returned she was allowed to
• complete test.
• Not a Violation
• Page 10 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 8

• General education students had
• access to two organizational
• templates (such as 4 Column) during
• assessment.
• Violation
• Page 7 Classroom Materials
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1 5

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Situation 9

• A test booklet was lost due to a lack
• of security. Materials were stacked
• in an unlocked classroom for three
• hours.
• Violation
• Page 6 Test Security
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 4

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Situation 10

• Teacher kept rough drafts from the
• previous years On-Demand Writing
• test. The drafts may have been used
• to prepare for the current years
• test.
• Violation
• Page 5 Test Security
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 11

• Student hospitalized for severely
• broken leg (in traction). Homebound
• teacher administered the test to the
• student in the hospital.
• Not a Violation
• Page 5 Inclusions Summary, paragraph 4
• Page 13 Section 4, part B

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Situation 12

• Teacher made direct corrections on
• students writing portfolio piece and
• allowed students to inappropriately
• assist each other with portfolio
• pieces.
• Violation
• Page 13 Writing Portfolio Development
• Not Acceptable, paragraphs 3 4

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Situation 13

• Teacher allowed four middle school
• students to go to lunch before
• finishing test. Students finished the
• test after lunch.
• Violation
• Page 9 - Administration Practices
• Acceptable, paragraph 6

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Situation 14

• Four 10th graders worked into or
• completed the Practical Living/Vocational
• Studies portion of the test when they
• should have only taken the Reading
• sections.
• It depends!
• Page 10 - Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 3

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Situation 15

• In a testing session, teacher allowed
• one group of students to complete
• sections A and B of Reading, while
• other classes completed only
• section A of Reading.
• Violation
• Page 10 Administration Practices
• Acceptable, paragraph 2

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Situation 16

• Students had similar answers, but had not
• copied. It was determined that one had
• listened intently as another dictated
• answers to scribe.
• Violation
• Page 9 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 17

• Student has a learning disability that
• significantly impacts her reading ability. Her
• IEP states materials may be presented orally.
• The guidance counselor had her come to his
• office so he can read the test to her.
• Not a Violation
• Page 9 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1
• Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 18

• A school needs to use multiple scribes
• and readers with special education
• students. The school schedules these
• scribes and readers to provide
• accommodations at the same time in a
• single room.
• Violation
• Page 9 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 19

• The district has three new students that have
• been identified as needing specific
• accommodations to be included in a 504
• Plan. The ARC immediately develops a plan,
• close to the CATS testing, which will allow the
• students to use the accommodations for
• instruction and during testing.
• Not a Violation
• Page 6 Inclusions
• 2a, b, c

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Situation 20

• Due to a shortage of calculators, a school
• changes the testing order to provide all
• students the opportunity to use
• calculators for the Mathematics sections
• of the KCCT.
• Violation
• Page 10 Administration Practices
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 2

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Situation 21

• A student routinely uses a word
• processor with word prediction as
• outlined in his 504 Plan and uses both
• features for KCCT.
• Not a Violation
• Page 9 Administration Practices
• Acceptable, paragraph 1
• Page 6 Inclusions 2a, b, c

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Situation 22

• Documentation of a students IEP is
• shared with the proctor that will be
• administering the state assessment
• to the student.
• Not a Violation
• Page 9 Administration Practices
• Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 23

• A proctor questions student use of a
• personal cueing notebook which seems to
• be very content specific. Additional
• investigation finds that all special
• education students have the exact same
• notebook.
• Violation
• Page 22-23 Inclusions
• Prompting and Cueing

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Situation 24

• During the testing window, a mobile
• depicting the three branches of
• government hangs from a classroom
• ceiling.
• Violation
• Page 7 Classroom Materials
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 1

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Situation 25

• Each day teachers visually scanned test
• booklets for good faith effort checklists.
• While scanning teacher made notes about
• the content of items students answered
• incorrectly.
• Violation
• Page 5 Test Security
• Not Acceptable, paragraph 3

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Situation 26

• Student was taking the math portion
• of the KCCT. He used from his
• prompting and cueing notebook, a
• cue card with multiple mathematical
• formulas and sample problems.
• Violation
• Page 23-24 of the Inclusions document
• Use of Prompting and Cueing

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Situation 27

• A student with illegible handwriting
• was given a scribe .
• Violation
• Page 18-19 of the Inclusions document
• Use of Scribes

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Situation 28

• Five LEP students were purposely
• assigned the same form of the test
• so one interpreter could work with
• all the students at the same time.
• Not a Violation
• Page 11 Inclusions
• Section C, 1, paragraph 2