EPISD Campus Test Coordinator Training Grades 5

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EPISD Campus Test Coordinator TrainingGrades 5
8 Math Retest May 2008
DRAFT

• Presented by
• Brenda Booth, Director of Assessment

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• Remember
• This training does NOT take the place of
  reading the appropriate manuals.

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Calendar Gr. 5 8 Math

• Test will be administered Tuesday, May 13th
• Make-up day Wednesday, May 14th
• Test material will be returned to the Testing
  Center on Thursday, May 15th

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Reporting

• Answer documents ship on Thursday, May 15th
• Reports are due in the district on Monday, June
  2nd

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Revised Math Charts Gr. 5

• TAKS Logo in top left-hand corner

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Revised Math Charts Gr. 8

• TAKS Logo in top left-hand corner

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Allowable Accommodations

• Signing/Translating oral instructions
• Colored overlay/magnifying device/place marker
• Small-group/individual administration
• Large print/braille
• Methods of response

2008 DCCM p. 37-38
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Allowable Accommodations

• Oral Administration OA bubble must be bubbled
  under accommodations all forms for this test
  administration are the same.
• Only examinees served by special education or
  Section 504 my receive an oral administration of
  TAKS
• Please make sure to account for the TAs test
  booklet (return with test booklets, NOT with
  voids)

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Nonallowable Accommodations

• Scratch paper and calculators may NOT be used for
  the test
• Test items may NOT be translated
• Test questions and answer choices may NOT be
  clarified or rephrased
• Foreign-language reference materials may NOT be
  used
• Other accommodations that would invalidate the
  test are prohibited

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• At least one TA for every 30 students.
• Bulletin boards, etc., that contain instructional
  material that may aide students on the test must
  be covered or removed.
• Clock does NOT have to be covered.
• A Testing Do Not Disturb sign must be posted
  outside the testing room.
• Doors to testing rooms must remain unlocked and
  windows must be uncovered.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 175

• Cell phones and other electronic devices are NOT
  allowed in the testing environment.
• TAs must read the cell phone policy to students
  before testing begins each day, and students must
  sign the cell phone sign-in sheet to verify they
  are aware of the policy.
• Any student caught with such a device during
  testing will automatically receive a score code
  of O for their test.
• Students must be monitored by a trained staff
  member during ALL individual and/or group breaks
  to ensure that they do NOT discuss the contents
  of the test.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• All answers must be marked on an answer document
  with a No. 2 pencil. Answers marked in a
  nonscorable test booklet will NOT be scored.
• Test administrators are NOT allowed to require
  students to first mark their answers in the test
  booklet and then transfer them to the answer
  document.
• Students MAY use highlighters in nonscorable test
  booklets (Grades 4 and up).
• Students must remain seated during testing and
  are NOT allowed to talk to one another while
  testing is taking place.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• Districts are NOT required to test beyond the
  regular school hours, but may do so if they
  choose to. Check with your campus administrators
  to determine how long your testing day will run,
  then notify students, parents teachers
  regarding the time regulations.
• Tests are untimed, so each student must be
  allowed to have as much time as necessary within
  the testing time set by the campus.
• If students need to be moved to an overflow room
  fill out a transfer of test material form to
  show a chain of custody of the secure material.
• Students are NOT allowed to carry their own test
  material to the new location.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• Each student MUST be allowed to work at his or
  her individual speed. Students may NOT be
  directed to speed up or slow down.
• Campuses/TAs are NOT allowed to set a time as to
  when tests will begin to be collected (i.e., we
  will not collect any tests for two hours or
  until 1030 a.m.).
• Some students may finish earlier than others.
  After test material has been collected, they may
  be allowed to read a book or leave the testing
  room.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• Reinforcing, reviewing for, and/or distributing
  testing strategies during an assessment is
  strictly prohibited. Providing this type of
  assistance to students can results in the
  invalidation of their tests.
• TAs must ACTIVELY monitor the testing
  room/process while students are working. They
  must ensure that students
• do NOT bubble demographic information on the
  answer documents.
• do NOT have access to nonallowable material, cell
  phones, or other electronic devices.
• TAs should periodically remind students to bubble
  their answers on the answer document.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• Before a student leaves the room, the test
  administrator MUST inspect the completed answer
  document to be sure the student has bubbled in
  answers as instructed.
• They are checking for completeness, (to verify
  that responses are marked), NOT for specific
  questions that were skipped or for specific
  answers that students selected.
• If a student has not bubbled in answers the TA
  must say, You have not recorded all of your
  answers on the answer document. Please go back
  and mark your answers on it now.
• Students are NOT allowed to return to a
  subject-area test attempted on a previous test
  day or to work on a subject-area test that has
  not yet been administered.

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Test Procedures
2008 DCCM p. 167-170

• A student who has arrived after testing has begun
  MAY be tested if sufficient time remains in the
  day and IF the student has not had contact with
  students who have already completed testing.
• Only students are allowed to erase stray marks or
  darken answer-choices on answer documents.
• After the student has finished testing and left
  the testing location, he or she will NOT be
  allowed to make any changes to the answer
  document.

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Test Security Confidentiality
2008 DCCM p. 20-21

• All personnel must be trained and sign an oath
  before handling secure material.
• All tests must be administered in strict
  accordance with the instructions contained in the
  test administrator manuals (including reading the
  directions to students verbatim) DO NOT ADD
  ANYTHING TO THE DIRECTIONS BEFORE STUDENTS BEGIN
  TESTING.
• All tests are considered secure until released to
  the public.
• No secure test material may be duplicated in any
  manner.
• No person may view, reveal, or discuss the
  contents of a secure assessment instrument or
  answer verbally or nonverbally any question that
  relates to the contents of a test before, during,
  or after a test administration unless
  specifically instructed to do so by the
  instructions in the TA manuals.

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Test Security Confidentiality
2008 DCCM p. 20-21

• No person may view or discuss student responses
  during or after a test administration unless
  specifically instructed to do so by the
  procedures outlined in the TA manuals.
• No person may change a response or instruct a
  student to do so.
• Release or disclosure of confidential test items
  could results in criminal prosecution under
  Section 552.352 of the Texas Government Code and
  Section 37.10 of the Texas Penal Code.
• In accordance with 19 TAC 101.65(e), any person
  who violates, assists in the violation of, or
  solicits another to violate or assist in the
  violation of test security or confidentiality,
  and any person who fails to report such
  violation, may be penalized by sanctions or
  revocation of their teaching certificate.
• Additionally, irregularities in test security or
  confidentiality may result in the invalidation of
  student results.

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Cell Phone Policy Sign-In Sheet
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Seating Charts

• Must be completed and ready to show to a monitor
  at the beginning of testing (may be completed as
  students are signing in).
• Must be completed for students who are moved to a
  new location.

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Grade 5 TA Manual

• Math administration directions (p. 55)
• Additional instructions for the oral
  administration are in appendix B (p. 109)
• Testing procedures (pp. 32-34)
• Test security and confidentiality (pp. 5-8)
• Oral administration directions (pp. 109-126)

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Grade 8 TA Manual

• Math administration directions (p. 52)
• Additional instructions for the oral
  administration are in appendix B (p. 89)
• Testing procedures (pp. 32-34)
• Test security and confidentiality (pp. 4-8)
• Oral administration directions (pp. 89-102)

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Precoded Answer Documents

• Precoded answer documents will be used
• Precoded answer documents are packed with your
  testing material
• If the information has been precoded correctly,
  there is no need to hand grid information

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Submitting Answer Docs Gr. 5

• Submit a TAKS answer document for each student
  enrolled in grade 5 who has not yet met the
  passing standard, regardless of whether the
  student tested.
• TAKS-M is not offered for retests.
• Grade 5 fill in the E for English or S for
  Spanish under the M in the TAKS FORMS area in
  the TEST TAKEN INFO field.
• If the student takes TAKS-Accommodated, fill in
  the E or S under the M in the TAKS ACCOMM.
  FORM area in the TEST TAKEN INFO field.

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Submitting Answer Docs Gr. 8

• Submit a TAKS answer document for each student
  enrolled in grade 8 who has not yet met the
  passing standard, regardless of whether the
  student tested.
• TAKS-M is not offered for retests.
• If the student takes regular TAKS, fill in the
  bubble under the M in the TAKS FORMS area in
  the TEST TAKEN INFO field.
• If the student takes TAKS-Accommodated, fill in
  the bubble under the M in the TAKS ACCOMM. FORM
  area in the TEST TAKEN INFO field.

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Do NOT Submit Answer Doc . . .

• Do NOT submit a TAKS answer doc for a student who
  met the standard in April.
• Do NOT submit an answer doc for a student who
  received a LAT administration in April.
• Do NOT submit an answer doc for a student who
  participated in the TAKS-Alt assessment.
• Note A student cannot be classified as
  LEP-exempt if he or she took the TAKS Gr. 5 or 8
  Math test in April.

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ARD score code bubble to be completed ONLY if
the ARD committee has determined that TAKS is NOT
appropriate for that student since taking the
first test administration.
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ARD score code bubble to be completed ONLY if
the ARD committee has determined that TAKS is NOT
appropriate for that student since taking the
first test administration.
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Score Codes

• A Absent (do not mark if eligible student will
  take make-up test)
• L LEP-exempt
• O Other (testing irregularity, illness, etc.)
• ARD ARD committee has determined that TAKS is
  not appropriate for the student
• S test to be scored
• Make sure only ONE letter is bubbled in the score
  code field

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Make-Up Testing

• Grade 5 8 Math Make-up----Wednesday, May 14th
• Make-up test for math- fill in 9 in column D
  in Agency Use field.

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Contact Information New Phone s

• Brenda Booth bkbooth_at_episd.org
• 881-2427
• Cynthia Aguilar caguilar_at_episd.org
• 881-2425
• Testing Center 881-2420