Roles and Responsibilities
- ensuring test security is maintained - understanding the testing process - establishing, in conjunction with the campus coordinator, processes specific to the campus - ensuring that staff training takes place
What are the responsibilities of the campus principal?
Accounting for all secure materials and confidential student information before, during and after each test administration.
What is involved in test security?
What should be on the door of each testing room?
What is a Testing Do Not Disturb sign?
names and location of all students, names of all test administrators and monitors involved in the administration, start and stop times
What is information that should be included on the seating chart?
- Name is written on the test booklet - Answers are bubbled on the answer document - The number of test booklets and answer documents is correct
What is what should be verified before turning materials in to the campus coordinator?
The person(s) responsible for security of testing materials once they are checked out from the campus coordinator.
What is the test administrator?
locked storage
What is where all secure testing materials should be kept when not in use?
Districts are required to have these available to all students for
What are dictionaries?
the only response you can give if a student asks a question about the CONTENT of the test
What is "I can't answer that for you; just do the best you can?"
initial the "IN" box on the Materials Control Form
What is what the campus coordinator does when he/she has verified that all materials have been accounted for?
The only person who should report testing concerns or irregularities to the district coordinator.
What is the campus testing coordinator?
5 years
What is the length of time that all required files are to be kept?
- student name is incorrect on the pre-coded answer document
What is hand grid a new answer document?
the length of time a trained test administrator should be present in the testing room
What is AT ALL TIMES?
- score code - test taken - accommodations
What is checking to make sure the answer document is complete?
Actively monitors the testing room as students are testing to confirm that students are working in the assessment being administered that day and they do not have access to nonallowed materials.
What is the test administrator?
- to include but not limited to: invalidating student results; placement of restrictions on certificate, revocation or cancellation of certificate.
What are penalties for violating security and confidentiality of assessments?
- find the packing slip - verify the number indicated on the packing slip of each item is sufficient for your campus - verify that you have received what is on the packing slip - verify the booklet numbers received
What is receiving your shipment of materials?
- "Remember that you must record your answers on the answer document." - "Be sure to erase your stray marks that you might have accidentally made on the answer document." - To stay on task - How much time is left
What are reminders to students DURING the test administration?
- scorables are banded with a cover sheet and boxed together - nonscorables are banded and boxed together Materials are boxed in the boxes they were received in.
What is preparing the materials to return to the district testing coordinator?
- serves as liason between district and campus personnel - monitors and maintains campus test security - designates and trains test administrators - prepares and distributes testing materials on the campus - answers questions and resolves issues throughout the testing window - communicates to the district coordinator issues that cannot be resolved at the campus level
What is campus coordinator?
MUST be signed by any person meeting the requirements to participate in state testing to affirm that they understand their obligations concerning the security and confidentiality of the state assessments.
What is the security oath?
- 2 no. 2 pencils per student - one test booklet per student - one test booklet per administrator if giving oral administration - one answer document per student - one answer document for demonstration purposes - any TEA authorized materials needed for the test
What is the test administrators tubs for the test administration?
Moving around the room, making sure students are in the correct section of the test, making sure students do not have access to nonallowed materials, ensuring that students are using a No. 2 pencil, ensuring students are not using highlighters on the answer document, etc.
What is ACTIVELY monitoring?
HAPPY DANCE AND/OR COLLAPSE
What is what you do when testing is over?