Prepare for Success
This prep includes taking down every content-related wall poster or helpful charts around the room.
What are examples of preparing the classroom for testing?
Calculation aids, headphones, and supplemental aids are examples of this.
What are test accommodations?
A student raises his/her hand before submitting, and the test administrator comes over to look at the student's computer to do this last step.
What is checking for skipped questions or verifying that the student submitted the test correctly.
There is a schoolwide emergency! This is the priority that the test administrators should consider first.
What is ensuring student safety FIRST and FOREMOST?
Locking your door with the testing materials when you walk out of your classroom door is an example of what?
What is securing test matierals?
This prep includes assigning students a specific place to sit in the testing room and putting those places onto paper.
What is making a seating chart?
Verifying, signing, and taping the roster onto the door are steps for what?
What is taking attendance?
Reading a book, laying down his/her head.
What is the ONLY two things students should be doing when their STAAR test is submitted?
A student becomes sick and vomits in the trashcan. These are two steps the test administrator should follow.
What are pausing the student's test and sending the student to the nurse with a pass?
Locking test materials in the classroom when leaving for a lunch break.
What is securing test materials?
This prep includes taking online test administrator classes and signing an oath.
What is completing required test administrator training?
Walking around the room, sitting and watching student activity, and checking for students cheating on their tests describe what process?
What is active monitoring?
Collecting all test tickets, bringing supplies back to the test hub, and signing in all materials are examples of this.
What is steps to complete when all students have finished testing.
You smell natural gas and report it to your administrators. It is determined that all students in your room will be relocated. What steps should the test administrator complete before moving students?
*Must include at least one of the listed answers*
What is pausing student tests, telling students to remain calm/quiet, and recording the start/stop time to document the move?
Test administrator getting onto his/her laptop, use of personal cell phone, and taking a nap at the teacher desk are examples of this.
What are "illegal actions" for the test administrator?
This test prep includes verifying the test tickets with your room roster, picking up supply folders/bins, and signing off on supplemental aids/test tickets.
What is checking out testing supplies from the testing hub on test morning.
The student is testing but needs to go to the restroom. This is the action the student should do after getting permission to go to the restroom but before they leave the room.
What is pausing his/her test?
Seating charts must include these two things other than student names and desks.
What is the start and stop times for testing?
Changing student test answers, helping students answer questions, and talking about the test questions after the test could result in this action.
What is invalidating or suspending an educator's teaching certificate?
The length of the entire school day.
What is the amount of time every student has to finish his/her test?
Turning each chromebook on and selecting the Secure Testing app on the lower left-hand corner.
What is putting the chromebooks into secure test mode?
A student's text-to-speech turns off in the middle of testing and can no longer see the "content language supports" that he/she could see at the beginning of the test; this is the first step of the test administrator.
What is contact the testing coordinator or contact the hall monitor to reach out to the testing coordinator?
This is the symbol that will appear by a skipped question when students review their answers before submitting.
What is a red triangle?
Lunch breaks, medical breaks, and schoolwide emergencies are examples of this.
What are reasons to pause testing?
Discussing secure test content or student responses is an example of this.
What is a serious irregularity?