STAAR Time Limit
TEST SECURITY
ACCOMMODATIONS
PREPARING FOR TESTING
TESTING
100
Four hours
What is the time limit to test for most students?
100
before, during and after each test administration
What is you must account for all secure material?
100
Requires additional training
What is oral administration?
100
sharpened number two pencils all desks cleared
What is preparing for testing?
100
“Remember that you must record your responses on the answer document.”
What do you need to remind your students when they have not bubbled their answers?
200
Orally and in writing
What is the proper manner to communicate the time left to test?
200
Do this immediately after each test administration with any recordings, graph paper, or scratch paper that students have written on during the test.
What is collect and destroy?
200
Bilingual Dictionary and Extra time
What are allowable accommodations for ELL students who qualify?
200
May 5th- before you leave
What is covering all instructional material?
200
Teacher says during the test, “Remember to read your passages twice, remember to circle clue words and draw pictures for comprehension?”
What is strictly prohibited? Reinforcing, reviewing strategies during an assessment pg.32
300
11:15 to 11:45
What is the time small groups go to lunch?
300
Working on the computer or checking email Reading a book, magazine, or newspaper Grading papers or working on lesson plans Leaving the room without a trained substitute test administrator in the room
What is not Active Monitoring?
300
Appendix D pp. 94-96
What is the way to remember how to record Time to Test on the Answer Document?
300
You must read and review this
What is your manual?
300
TA reads reading selections
What is not allowed during an oral administration reading test?
400
after the directions have been read and students are told to begin working on their tests
That is when TIME STARTS
400
Student provided unallowable accommodation
What is procedural irregularity?
400
Providing reading assistance on the third grade mathematics test (word-phrase). Using a whisper phone Placed in a small group
What is an allowable accommodation?
400
Talk to students who will be receiving linguistic accommodations prior to testing to let them know how their test will be conducted and the types of assistance they are eligible to receive.
What is preparing ELL students with linguistic accommodations?
400
Labeled and placed in an area near the door.
What is dictionaries for students who have it as an accommodation?
500
Medical breaks - Movement into a new testing environment Meals/Emergencies
What is Time Stops
500
Formally or informally scoring student tests
What is a serious irregularity?
500
Extra Day
What is a Type two accommodation? Request from TEA
500
Friday, May 6th.
What is checking your testing buckets during conference and placing testing signs in their assigned place.
500
Bubble the correct score code on each answer document. check test booklet number h. Also, verify that student information, test taken information, and accommodations coding on answer documents is accurate
What is making sure answer document is complete?