WESTEST Training

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WESTEST Training
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Prior to First Testing Session

• Attend WESTEST Training for Examiners
• Sign Examiners/Proctors/Scribes Secure
  Materials and Test Procedures Agreement and
  return to Principal
• Review the Examiners Manual
• Prepare Mathematics Punch-out Tools
• Obtain a class packet from the Principal/Building
  Test Coordinator

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Prior to the First Testing Session

• Inform students and their parents of the test
  date and the purpose of the test.
• Ensure that each student is familiar with general
  types of questions on the test and procedures to
  follow when recording answers to the test
  questions.
• Suggest that students bring a quiet individual
  activity in case they complete the test early.

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Prior to the First Testing Session

• Practice using the Mathematics Punch-out Tools
  with students. Students may use their own
  protractors and rulers.
• Student protractors and rulers may not have
  information on them that could be clues or
  answers to questions on the WESTEST (ex. name of
  shapes).

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Prior to the First Testing Session

• Familiarize students with the Mathematics Formula
  Sheet, Science Reference Sheet, or The Periodic
  Table of Elements, Units, Definitions, and
  Abbreviations Sheet from the test booklets.

• http//westest.k12.wv.us/pdf/Sci_ref-sheet_op05WV1
  .pdf
• http//westest.k12.wv.us/pdf/Math_ref-sheet_op05WV
  1.pdf
• http//westest.k12.wv.us/pdf/Periodic_Table_op05WV
  1.pdf

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Prior to the First Testing Session

• Inform students of the kinds of calculators that
  may be used for the Science tests and Session 2
  of the Mathematics test. Calculators may not be
  used for Session 1 of the Mathematics test.
• All types of memory must be cleared prior to and
  after testing. Any programs or applications must
  be removed prior to testing.
• Texas Instrument Manuals
• Casio Calculator Manuals
• Sharp Calculator Manuals

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Prior to First Testing Session
For Examiners administering WESTEST to students
with IEP testing accommodations

• If you are testing RLA or Math, obtain the Print
  Special Education Student Testing Option Report
  (WVS.326) from the principal.
• Review each childs listed testing accommodations
  prior to testing

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Prior to the First Testing Session

• Check-out test booklets, verify count and initial
  Security Checklist.
• Check to see that each test booklet has a
  pre-coded student label on the front cover. If
  there is no student label, then the
  Principal/Building Level Coordinator will have
  bubbled in the Bio-Grid information.

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School Security Checklist
Examiner initials CHECK-OUT
Principal initials CHECK-IN
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Before Testing Begins

• Ensure that any specific content information
  pertinent to the test being administered is not
  displayed in the area during test administration.
• A DO NOT DISTURB sign shall be
• placed on the door during testing.

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Before Testing Begins

• Students shall be seated to deter interaction
  with each other during testing.
• Clear desks/work areas of all booklets, papers,
  and other materials.
• Cell phones and watches
• or pagers with alarms are
• to be turned off.

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Before Testing Begins

• Show examples on the board of how to fill in
  answer circles correctly. Emphasize that
  students must make complete erasures and write
  answers in the space/lines provided.

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Before Testing Begins

• Have at least two 2 pencils with good erasers
  for each student. Have at least 2 pages of
  scratch paper for each student. (Graph paper may
  used as scratch paper.)

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Bio-Grid

• The Bio-Grid is completed only for students who
  do not have a Pre-Slugged Label.
• This should be completed by the
  Principal/Building Level Coordinator.

Check to make sure students have not filled
in these bubbles.
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Check for Student Label here.
Student completes this information.
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During Testing

• Set aside the test booklets for students who are
  absent. Each day, the Principal/ Building Level
  Coordinator will collect the test booklets not
  being used shortly after the test administration
  begins.
• Read the student directions verbatim. These
  directions are printed in the boxed areas
  preceded by the word SAY.

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Reminder The Reading/Language Arts test may not
be read aloud or signed to any student. Only the
directions may be read aloud or signed.
Reading/Language Arts Day 2 Session 1,
Reading/Language Arts Distribute test booklets to
the students. Make sure each student gets
his/her own test booklet. Students may use
scratch paper for the Reading/Language Arts test.
Grade 4
Grade 3
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During Testing

• Students must be given adequate time to complete
  the test. If a student who has required
  additional time stops working for more than 10
  minutes and has not closed his/her test booklet,
  it is recommended that the test be ended.
• Each content test must be completed on the day it
  is started.

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During Testing

• Circulate around the room to monitor student
  progress on the test.
• Instruct students they must not remove the
  Mathematics Formula Sheet, Science Reference
  Sheet, or The Periodic Table of Elements, Units,
  Definitions, and Abbreviations Sheet from the
  test booklets.

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During Testing

• Document any problem(s) with student/ group
  testing on the Testing Irregularity Sheet.
  Irregularities are events that disrupt two or
  more students. Irregularities that could
  invalidate the test, must be reported to the
  Principal/Building Level Coordinator as soon as
  possible within that day of testing.

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During Testing

• Damaged test booklets need to be reported to the
  Principal/Building Level Coordinator immediately.
  Do not destroy or dispose of the damaged test
  booklet.
• Make sure test booklets are closed and secure
  during breaks.

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During Testing

• Check to see that students write in the test
  booklet only where directed to do so. For
  constructed response questions, students show
  their work and write their answers in the space
  provided. For multiple choice items, students
  fill in the circle of their choice.

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During Testing

• Ensure that any student who has completed a
  session has closed the test booklet, is engaged
  in a silent activity, and does not re-open the
  test booklet until instructed to do so.
• Document any accommodations provided for students
  with disabilities (Print Special Education
  Student Testing Options Report WVS.326)