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Title: 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
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