Roanoke County Schools

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Roanoke County Schools Pre-Test Workshop Fall 06
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Agenda

• Test Overview
• Scheduling Administration
• Returning Materials for Scoring

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Harcourt Assessment

• High Quality Assessments since 1928
• Technical Excellence
• Achievement, Ability, Diagnostic, Language
  Proficiency
• Customized State Assessments
• Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Illinois
• SAT10 in Virginia
• Loudon County, Arlington County Public Schools,
  Virginia Beach, Roanoke City Schools, York
  County, Hanover County, Henrico County

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Why Stanford 10?

• Breakthrough Testing
• Full-color testing materials
• New format for easy navigation
• Newly formatted, color-enhanced score reports
• Untimed, flexible testing times
• Easy-to-navigate Answer Document
• Large Print/ Braille Editions
• 2002 norm-referenced information

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Representative of Intermediate 2 Level Materials
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Representative of Intermediate 2 Level Materials
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Unique Answer Document

• Visually organizes answer spaces according to
  questions on test booklet page
• Guides students through process of marking
  answers

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Stanford 10

• Technical excellence
• Empirical Fall and Spring norms
• Sample representative of U.S. student population
• 360,000 students
• Thirteen levels, Kindergarten?grade 12
• Assessment of Reading, Mathematics, Language,
  Spelling, Listening, Science, and Social Science
• Easy-hard-easy format that encourages students
• Grade-appropriate content
• Lexile Measures of reading levels

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Content

• Reading Preview
• Emphasizes a balanced reading curriculum
  phonemic awareness, decoding, phonics,
  vocabulary, and comprehension
• Aligned to NAEP, IRA, and NCTE Standards
• Offers reading selections commissioned from
  published children's and young peoples authors
  for Stanford 10
• Unique feature that provides a level playing
  field for all students
• Includes Literary, Informational, and Functional
  reading selections
• Assesses Initial Understanding, Interpretation,
  Critical Analysis, and Awareness and Usage of
  Reading Strategies
• Emphasizes literature objectives
• Gives more opportunities to show reading
  strategies
• Includes more poetry selections
• Includes a more multicultural representation of
  reading selections
• Provides Lexile Measures of reading levels

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Content

• Mathematics Preview
• Includes grade-appropriate content
• Alignments
• NAEP
• New NCTM Principles and Standards for School
  Mathematics (PSSM)
• State standards
• Measures Mathematics Problem Solving
• Mathematics Procedures to assess computational
  fluency as well as ability to solve problems and
  communicate and reason mathematically
• Includes standard and metric rulers

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Content

• Language Preview
• Aligns with the new IRA/NCTE Standards and state
  standards
• Measures prewriting, composing, and editing
  stages of writing through a students writing
• Mirrors a real editing situation with a variety
  of embedded errors

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Support Materials

• Guide for Classroom Planning
• Provides Samples of test items
• Outlines Test Objectives
• Show teachers how to interpret and use Stanford
  10 test results
• Practice Tests
• Orientate Students to the test taking process
• KeyLinks The Connection Between Instruction
  Assessment
• Evaluates reading, mathematics, and science
  performance while developing skills in answering
  multiple-choice and open-ended test questions

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OLSAT

• Measures the cognitive abilities that relate to a
  students ability to learn and succeed in school
• Uses both verbal and nonverbal measures
• Relates a students achievement level to school
  ability
• Administer with the Stanford Achievement Test
  Series, Tenth Edition
• Obtain Achievement/Ability Comparisons (AACs),
  which describe a students achievement in
  relation to students with the same measured
  school ability
• Use information as a diagnostic
• tool for classroom planning

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Fall 06 Testing Calendar

• October 5 Pre-test Workshop
• October 5 Schools Receive Testing
  Materials
• Oct. 16-20 Test Administration Window
• October 26 Return Answer Documents to
  Central Office
• Ship date 21 days Schools Receive Score Reports

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Recommended Student Working Time SAT10

• Grade 4 - Primary 3, Abbreviated Battery Form D
• Grade 4 OLSAT Level E, Form 5
• Reading 56 minutes
• Word Study Skills 12 minutes
• Vocabulary 14 minutes
• Comprehension 30 minutes
• Math 55 minutes
• Problem Solving 33 minutes
• Procedures 22 minutes
• Language 28 minutes
• OLSAT8 40 minutes (required testing time)
• Total Recommended Testing Time approximately 3
  hours

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Untimed Testing Guidelines

• Guidelines for Untimed Testing
• All students may be given additional time to
  complete the Stanford 10 beyond the recommended
  administration time set for in the Directions for
  Administering
• Additional time is considered 5 -10 minutes
• Students should meaningfully interact with the
  test during the additional time period
• Students with IEPs that require additional time
  should be tested separately - (teacher judgment)
• These students may require and should be given
  additional time above and beyond 5-10 minutes
  (teacher judgment)
• The test session may be continued as long as the
  student meaningfully interacts with the
  assessment
• Additional time may not be given on the OLSAT8

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Accommodations

• Accommodations
• Changes in standardized assessment conditions to
  level the playing field for students by
  eliminating the construct created by their
  disability (Tindal Fuchs, 1999)
• May be provided to students with IEPs
• Do not test students with SAT10/OLSAT8 who
  participate in VAAP and VGLA
• SAT10
• You may provide accommodations that parallel the
  students IEP and are listed in the
  accommodations table for SAT10
• Please keep in mind that some accommodations will
  result in a Nonstandard administration
• If a student receives a Nonstandard
  administration special coding and packaging are
  required
• OLSAT8
• If a students IEP requires any accommodation
  other than small group testing they should not be
  included in the OLSAT8
• EXCEPTION Small Group Accommodations

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Specific Directions for Administering

• Physical Conditions in Testing Room
• Maintain a natural classroom atmosphere
• Provide adequate lighting
• Arrange seating in order to prevent cheating
• Post a Testing DO NOT Disturb Sign on the door
• Reading Test Directions
• Read directions as printed in booklet
• Administer Language Form D
• Read directions under Distributing
  Machine-Scorable Answer Documents
• Do not give help on specific test questions
• Reread direction if a mistake is made while
  reading the direction
• Pause approximately 10 seconds between questions

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Activities Before Testing

• Inventory Test Material
• Ancillary Materials SSID Sheets, Paperbands,
• Secure all Testing Materials
• Train Test Administrators
• Review Directions for Administering
• related procedures

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Activities Before Testing
Materials Required for Testing

• Test Examiner
• Directions for Administering SAT10
• Directions for Administering OLSAT 8
• Test Booklets (one per student) SAT10 OLSAT8
• Answer Sheet - Combination
• No. 2 pencils with Erasers
• Digital Clock
• Scratch Paper
• Paper Rulers
• Pre-Identification Labels
• Calculators

• Student
• Test Booklet SAT 10
• Test Booklet OLSAT 8
• Answer Sheet - Combination
• No. 2 pencil with eraser
• Scratch Paper
• Paper Ruler
• Calculator

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Before Testing Preparing Student Answer
Documents

• Pre-Identification Labels
• Eliminate most coding on answer documents
• Exception Non Standard Administration In
  section 10, Bubble 20
• Must be placed properly on test booklets
• Students without Labels
• Print Student Information
• Bubble the following Information
• 2. Last Name, First Name MI
• Date of Birth
• Gender
• Race/Ethnicity
• Grade
• Student Number-five digits left justify
• 8-12 Leave Blank
• Exception Non Standard Administrations In
  section 10, Bubble 20

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Activities After Testing

• Organizing Materials
• Scorable test material
• Used Answer Documents
• Arrange documents by class
• Name grid facing up
• Margin with black horizontal bars on the left
• Separate documents for students that received a
  Non-Standard Test Administration
• Complete a Scoring Service Identification Sheet
  for each group of documents
• Do not mix grades within a group
• Do not send photocopies of the SSID Sheet
• Place the SSID sheet on top of each class

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Scoring Service
Identification Sheet
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• Side 1 Directions
• A. Print School Information
• B. Grid School Name
• C. Grid Grade Level
• D. Grid No
• Grid Number of
  
  
  Documents -0032 Right
  Justify
• Grid School Code
• G. FOR NONSTANDARD ADMINISTRATION
• GROUPS ONLY!
• Grid zero in column 1
• H. Leave Blank

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Scoring ServiceIdentification Sheet Side 2
Directions I. Grid the Circle J. Leave
Blank K. Print Grid Teacher Name L. Leave
Blank
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After Testing
Proper Packaging Ensures Timely Results
Accommodated Group
Third Teacher Group
Second Teacher Group
First Teacher Group
Box 1 of 2
Packaging Schematic
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