TEST SECURITY
TESTING PROCEDURES
STAAR 101
ACCOMMODATIONS
IMPORTANT THINGS
100

The only acceptable place to keep test tickets during lunch breaks and transition times?

 What is the testing room, locked closet, or with someone who has been trained at all times.

100

STAAR testing start time

What is 8:15?

100

Technology/teacher computers/ CELL PHONES

What needs to be powered off while testing is taking place in the testing room?

100

Four committees determine which type of accommodations are allowable for each student.

What is SPED, 504, RTI, LPAC?

100

7:00-7:40

What time does test administrators begin to pick up their testing buckets?

200

What all test administrators should do prior to testing dates.

What is read the manual?

200

Immediately after all students in your group have finished testing.

What is the time when you turn in your tests and materials to the STAAR room?

200

Every person must sign an ______ and be _____ before handling any testing materials.

What is oath and trained?

200

What a TA should do if a student tells him/her on the day of testing that s/he has never seen or used these supplemental aids before.

This never happens at KES!  What is still give to student since it's documented that the student uses is routinely, independently, and effectively?

200

What students are supposed to do with their personal electronic devices.

What is to turn them off and turn them into the teacher until testing is complete OR leave them home?

300

Teacher tells Parra that they have done something wrong with testing and Parra does not report it.

What is a serious irregularity that needs to be reported to the CTC?

300

3 examples of active monitoring.

-Not on personal device/computer
-Not reading books/magazines
-Walking around

300

The test administrator reviews testing strategies with the students, right before the test begins.

What is a practice not allowed on the morning of the STAAR?  (This is done the day before, never the morning of)

300

The document where I can find the accommodations I am recommending for all of my SPED, 504, LEP, and RTI students.

What is the spreadsheet Ratcliff has asked me to look at more times than I can count?

300

3 reasons to stop a student's or classes' official time.

What is lunch, emergency, or medical break?

400

Test directions should be given _____ how the test instructions say in the _______.

What is "exactly", "manual"

400

A student does not finish their STAAR test before the four hour limit.

What is do not give the student not one more minute!

400

The time intervals a TA shoud remind students of time left to finish their test.

What is one-hour intervals and every 15 minutes in the last hour?

400

You have the following students in your testing group: 5 students taking tests with oral admin accommodation, 4 students without accommodations, 3 students who are taking the test from a different grade level. What do you do?

What is, simply administer the test :-)

400

What needs to be done if a TA has a test ticket of a student who is absent on the first day of testing.

What is, separate it from the others and turn it in when you check in your bucket?

500

The response to questions you are not permitted to answer on STAAR?

What is "I can't answer that for you; just do the best you can."

500

What a TA should do if a student's chromebook doesn't have the STAAR app to access the Summative Assessment.  

What is let the CTC know?

500

"Testing- do not disturb" sign

What is posted on all classroom doors where testing is occurring?

500

The person responsible on testing day to ensure students in his/her group have the right accommodations.

What is the test administrator?

500

What needs to be done in the testing room to ensure you are ready for students to test BEFORE testing day?

What is,
-Cover up anything that may directly assist the student with answers
-Arrange your desk to split up kids the best way you can
-Ensure the testing environment is clutter free