This chart of chemical elements must be taken down or covered.
What is the periodic table?
100
This small, common electronic device, used to communicate with others, can not be in the testing room.
What is a cell phone?
100
This process, typically used to reproduce text or visuals, can not be used to reproduce TCAP.
What is photocopying?
100
This term means that all students have the same test content, resources, directions, testing conditions, and scoring procedures.
What is standardization?
100
This is the maximum amount of time allowed if extra time is used as an accommodation.
What is time and a half?
200
These can be used to familiarize students with TCAP formatting without compromising test integrity.
What are released items?
200
This term meaning "word for word, exactly", applies to how the directions from the proctor's manual will be presented to the students.
What is verbatim?
200
This practice, allowed by CDE but not by RE-4, is used to discourage students from rushing through the test and to encourage going back over the test during the allowed session time.
What is reading a book?
200
This document contains explicit directions for administering each testing session and should be read thoroughly before administering the test.
What is the proctor's manual?
200
This person contacts CDE with ethical and logistical questions that can't be answered in district.
Who is the DAC?
300
This writing instrument that has replaceable graphite is not allowed for testing.
What is a mechanical pencil?
300
This person is responsible for the ethical administration during the testing session.
Who is the test proctor?
300
This is the number of bubbles the student or proctor should fill in on the back of the test booklet.
What is zero?
300
This person is responsible for test security and fielding testing questions within each school.
Who is the SAC?
300
This secure document is used with the proctor's manual to administer the assessment to students who need content material read to them.
What is the oral script?
400
This posted instructional aid, provided to prompt students to use a variety of vocabulary, must be removed from the walls in any room used for administering TCAP.
What is a word wall?
400
This device can not be used to show students the amount of time remaining in a testing session.
What is a timer?
400
This is the person to whom all test booklets and secure documents must be returned after each testing session.
Who is the SAC?
400
This is the maximum number of students that can be assigned to one test proctor in any given session.
What is thirty?
400
This is the only accommodations document that can be used with the proctor's manual when administering the reading test.
What is the teacher read directions?
500
This tool allows students to see the progression of skills considered when TCAP constructed responses are scored and can be posted in the room if it has been used for instructional purposes.
What is a TCAP rubric?
500
This person, one of two who have typically been the closest to the student since birth, is not permitted in the room during a testing session, nor can have access to the student's test booklet.
Who is the parent?
500
This is the person with whom test items and specific student testing behaviors that were observed can be discussed.
Who is no one?
500
This is the maximum number of content areas and levels that can be tested in the same room at the same time.
What is one?
500
This is the maximum amount of time that can be added to a testing session for the standard accommodation "Frequent Breaks".