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Test Security
Test Security Part 2
STAAR 101
Testing Procedures
Did You Know
100
You sign and date that you have received training are aware of procedures, will fulfill your obligations and have maintained confidentiality.
What is the Oath of Test Security & Confidentiality?
100
The test administrator instructs a student to look at number 12 again.
What is YOU'RE FIRED? I will call the testing department and it was nice knowing you...
100
#2 Pencils, Test Booklet, Answer Document, Eraser, Divider, Dictionary, etc...
What student needs to take the STAAR test?
100
Start and stop times must be recorded on me.
What is the seating chart?
100
Teacher tells Parra that they have done something wrong with testing and Parra does not report it.
What is something that will never happen in real life; don't even ask. There are no friends when testing is involved.
200
Restrictions, reprimand, suspension, revocation
What are the Penalties for Violation of Security and Confidentiatity of Assessments?
200
The test administrator allows a student to finish bubbling after time has run out.
What is a way to get yourself fired. I will call the testing department and complete an incident report and your will receive a Memo to the file. TEA will make the final ruling.
200
Water, bathroom, snack, mental, lunch, emergency, medical.
What are Included & Not Included breaks?
200
A student does not finish their STAAR test before the four hour time limit.
What is it? It doesn't matter; pick up the test and save yourself. Do not give the student not minute more unless you are OK with the possibility of losing your job.
200
A student not identified as Special Ed or 504 receives and XT and SG accommodation during STAAR
What are the accommodations that students in IAT may qualify for, as long as we have documentation to support the decision.
300
Procedural and Serious
What are two types of Testing Irregularities?
300
The test administrator locks the STAAR test materials bucket in the classroom cabinet and leaves the room.
What is not a secure test storage? The testing storage room is the only area that is considered a secure location to house testing materials.
300
The test administrator erases stray marks on the student answer documents.
What is what the test administrator should never do? Save yourself!, do not touch the student answer documents, ever.
300
The fire alarm sounds during the STAAR test.
What is Safety First; make sure your students get to safety and I will contact the testing department about next steps.
300
160
What is the number of people in 2015 who lost their job due to Serious Testing Violations. Can't find these people in Outlook anymore...
400
Notify your Campus Testing Coordinator immediately.
What you should do if there is any testing irregularity?
400
The test administrator reports a student for cheating on a STAAR test.
What is proper monitoring. You get to keep your job another year.
400
STAAR booklets returned to Parra in two stacks that are organized and all facing the same direction.
What is how Parra wants the testing materials returned to her?
400
The test administrator reviews testing strategies with the students, right before the test begins.
What is not allowed on the morning of the STAAR. This is to be done the day before, never the morning of.
400
A 4th grade student asks the test administrator to read the word perimeter on the math test.
What is not allowed in 4th and 5th grade? This is only allowed on the third grade math test.
500
Two months after the STAAR is over, a test administrator talks to a teacher friend from another school about what they noticed on the STAAR Math test.
What you are never to do before during or after the STAAR test? Never, never, never discuss the contents of the STAAR test. Remember, there are no friends when testing is involved.
500
The test administrator neglects to write the student booklet numbers on the seating chart.
What is I will not accept the seating chart and I will send you back to complete it the right way.
500
We cannot find a teacher's name in outlook.
What is THEY are no longer with the district.
500
A cell phone rings in a testing room during the STAAR test.
What is a serious testing violation that may cause the the student scores to be voided. I will call the testing department and TEA will make the final decision. Do not be the one this happens to. There are no cell phones allowed in the testing hallway.
500
The test administrator stands for a long time looking over a student's shoulder.
What is you are monitoring too closely; Beware of losing your job!; take a step back, continue moving around the room.