Irregularity or ???
A student is using a bilingual word-to-word dictionary on a STAAR Science Test
No irregularity
A student with the colored overlay accommodation isn’t testing with a colored screen.
This is a student selected setting. If they do not select it at the beginning of the test, it will not appear on the test.
After the test has ended, a student is found to have a cellphone in his pocket.
What is: score code the student "O-Other".
-Local Discipline, parent contact home.
A proctor calls out on the morning of the test. What do you do?
Stay calm and pull one of your extra trained staff members to proctor that room.
When creating test sessions, the CTC notices there are now 3 tabs at the top of the screen: yellow, pink, and green. Which one should the CTC use?
GREEN
A proctor stops a group of 3rd grade testers for their lunch break and walks them down to the cafeteria. Test tickets and session ID codes are left in the room.
IRREGULARITY
A student with Oral Admin (Text-To-Speech or Auto Text-to-Speech) says that her test is reading passages to her.
Did you know that Text-to-Speech will read REVISING passages?
(No editing or reading passages).
A student refuses to remove her earbuds before the test begins.
The student cannot test with earbuds in.
You find out the morning of the test that you have 3 new students who all need this test and they aren't in TIDE.
Stay calm and schedule them for a make up testing session. Remember to enter them on the form so the assessment team can track them in TIDE.
The CTC has set up a test session for students, however, once students login, their screens say they are awaiting approval to join the test.What went wrong?
This test session ID was not set up in the green tab.
Another AP on your campus is helping with monitored calibration codes. You sent them as an email attachment.
IRREGULARITY
Before a test begins, the room proctor realizes her text-to-speech room was not asked to test their headphones.
Stop the test and contact the CTC. CTC will ensure the accommodations upload was successfully uploaded.
A test administrator is actively monitoring and finds that a student has their phone out and on during the test. The student tries unsuccessfully to hide it under a calculator, and when questioned, the student says they were just changing their music and checking snapchat.
What is: remove the student from the room, collect the phone, investigate to determine whether they were cheating.
-Local discipline, "O-other code", and possible LDDA.
A student who has missed other testing dates is on campus on the last day of the testing window, but they have a sports meet.
Testing takes priority.
You are doing make up testing today for reading and math interim. One of the students testing today missed both tests. When she logs in, both tests come up as options. What went wrong?
The CTC created one session ID for multiple tests.
After the test has begun, the proctor realizes that a formula for the math test is on the whiteboard.
Maybe*
It depends whether this formula is provided on the STAAR reference charts, and whether it has any worked problems associated with it.
After the test begins, a student realizes his test is not reading to him and there are no pop-up bubbles (content and language supports).
If this is caught early (in the first 5 questions), this can be fixed in TIDE.
After 5 questions, the test cannot be fixed, and the parent will need to be contacted to determined whether the child will be Scored or score code "O". This is an accommodations error.
During testing, you get a text from one of your proctors. It is a picture of a question from the math STAAR. The student has complained that there isn't a correct answer, and upon the proctor's investigation, they agree.
This is a serious irregularity. Begin an investigation and call Courtney/ Cheryl immediately.
A student arrives at 11:30am for the STAAR test. Students are still testing, and you know you will have several the continue after lunch. This student has accommodations and typically uses extra time in the classroom.
Schedule this student for a make up testing session. This student may not have enough time left in the day to test.
A student cannot login to the test. The session ID is:
TX-Q05T-29D
(This is a fake session ID for the game)
What are some potential issues?
Typing the 0 or the D as an "O".
A student gets to the last question on her test and does not submit, but instead closes her chromebook and raises her hand to let the proctor know she is finished.
Is this an isolated incident? Is the proctor actively monitoring, if so, then no.
If 20 out of 30 of this proctor's students do this and it is found they were not actively monitoring, then yes, this would be an irregularity.
A student with text-to-speech enabled in TIDE says her test isn’t reading to her.
Text-to-speech does not automatically read to students. This student likely does not know where the button is to make the test read the questions.
-TEA requires districts to have a policy/ procedure in place to protect test security.
-Electronic agreement was read by proctor and signed by child.
At 7:30am on the day of the test, you get a phone call letting you know we've just found out that Cambium made a change to a file format, and you need to re-upload something.
A student was identified originally as an 8th grader, but after meeting with LPAC was reclassified as a 7th grader. The student is listed as an 8th grader in TIDE, and on the day of the STAAR test, took the 8th grade Reading STAAR. How did this happen?
The CTC created a session ID for multiple tests, so the student was able to access the 8th grade assessment. This is a procedural irregularity, eligibility error.