As you wait, please complete the Test Questionnaire Blue handout

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As you wait, please complete the Test
Questionnaire (Blue handout)
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Morgan County Fall Test Training

• September 11, 2008
• Morgan County School System

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Green Handouts Testing Dates

• Think about the effect of school activities
  scheduled during the day of test
• Homecoming pep rally
• Talent shows
• Ball games
• Field Trips
• Show and Tell Activities
• Etc.

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Student Assessment Program Overview

• DIBELS (K-3)
• Stanford 10 (3-8)
• Grade 3 Reading, Math, Language
• Grade 4 Reading, Math, Language
• Grade 5 Reading, Math, Language, Science
• Grade 6 Reading, Math, Language, Social St.
• Grade 7 Reading, Math, Language, Science
• Grade 8 Reading, Math, Language
• ARMT PART II (3-8)
• 70 Reading is from the Stanford 10
• 30 Math is from the Stanford 10

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Student Assessment Program Overview

• Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing (grades 5,
  7, 10)
• AHSGE (10, 11, 12)
• Alabama Science Assessment (grades 5 7)
• ACCESS for ELLs
• AAA
• When the general population is assessed, all
  students in that population must be assessed

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Yellow Packet of Material

• Detail of each test
• Item Specifications
• www.alsde.edu/sections/
• Student Assessment
• Publications

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ACCOUNTABILITY Buff Colored Packet

• Participation AYP

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ACCOUNTABILITY Buff Colored Packet

• Proficiency AYP

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Five Methods to AYP

• Reach the goal (e.g. AMO is 77 and our All
  Students Category is 81)
• Confidence Interval
• Uniform Averaging (3 years)
• Safe Harbor (10 PLUS participation AAI)
• Interim 2 (Special Education Population)

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Confidence 2Interval
flexibility
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Annual Measurable Objectives (AMO)

• The ultimate goal for NCLB is that all students
  reach Level III or higher by 2013-2014.
• Morgan County AMO Results and TARGETS

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Alabama Student Assessment participants
responsibilities

• Superintendent
• System Test Coordinator
• 504 Coordinator
• Special Education Coordinator
• ESL Coordinator
• Principal
• Building Test Coordinator
• Test Administrator
• Proctor
• Monitor

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White Packet Part I LEA Role Descriptions
Responsibilities
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Alabama Student Assessment Test Security

• Test Security Plan
• Includes training of all personnel
• Includes handling of irregularities
• Includes securing test materials
• Only two keys allowed to storage
• No test should be left in a classroom before or
  after testing
• No student may handle test materials

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Alabama Student Assessment Test Security

• Training Complete LEA Report of Training
  Activities
• All personnel involved in testing must be trained
  for.
• Standardized testing conditions
• Security of testing materials
• Inspection of completed answer documents
• Distribution and collecting of testing materials
• Role and responsibility of all personnel
  associated with testing

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Pink Handout Severe Weather Testing Protocols
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White Packet Morgan County School System Test
Security Plan

• Section II
• Section III
• Section IV
• Section VI
• Section VII
• Section VIII

• Please Sign TEST SECURITY POLICY and pass it up
• Be sure all personnel associated with testing in
  your building sign this also.

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Other Forms Required

• Designation of Building Test Coordinator Most
  schools have already turned this in
• Security Confidentiality Statement Most
  schools have already turned these in
• Two persons for the High School (Counselor
  Principal)
• Two persons for the Middle School (Counselor
  Principal)
• Four persons for the Elementary
• Two for DIBELS (Reading coach other)
• Two for DRC (Counselor Principal)

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Procedures for Students of Special Populations

• Purple booklet Alabama Student Assessment
  Program Policies and Procedures for Students of
  Special Populations
• Page 7 When determining appropriate
  accommodations for an assessment, the IEP Team
  must look at accommodations regularly being made
  on the students classroom tests over time in
  that particular subject area.
• Pink handout Form for Requesting SDE Approval
  for Testing Accommodations

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General Testing Guidelines

• Test Administrators must read directions EXACTLY
  as written
• Copy machines must be removed from all testing
  rooms
• All printers/scanners must be disabled or removed
• Any educational visuals must be removed or
  covered
• Students must not bring cell phones or pagers
  into testing room nor teachers. SEE CELL PHONE
  POLICY

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General Testing Guidelines

• One proctor and one administrator are required
  for each AHSGE administration
• Proctors are NOT REQUIRED for other state
  assessments.
• No relative of a student may serve as TA or
  Proctor for that student
• Students MAY write in AHSGE book but MAY NOT
  write in ARMT/SAT-10
• All students are identified with State ID number
• Test administrators CAN NOT write the beginning
  and ending times on the board

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General Testing Guidelines

• Students are NOT ALLOWED to eat, drink or chew
  gum while taking the test
• For transcription accommodations, two certified
  individuals must transcribe
• Late students must be admitted to the test center
  at the scheduled break or sooner if testing has
  not begun.
• Students who leave the test center must be
  accompanied by the proctor. If the test is
  timed, they should be given the missed time to
  finish testing.

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THANKS TO EVERYONE! PLEASE TURN IN

• Test Security Policy Signed
• Security Confidentiality forms/Designation of
  BTC
• Evaluation
• EVERYONE IS DISMISSED EXCEPT High School BTC and
  Alternate