Test Security
Documents you have received training, are aware of procedures, will fulfill your obligations and have maintained confidentiality.
What is the Oath of Test Security & Confidentiality?
The State Board of Education (SBOE)shall ensure that STAAR assessments are not administered on this day of the week.
What is the first instructional day of the week (Monday)
Amount of time given for each STAAR EOC exam.
4 hours- Algebra I, Biology, U.S. History
5 hours- English I, English II
Start/ End time, location of door, location of teacher, location of students, form numbers (present/ absent)
What are items that must be recorded on the seating chart?
Ensuring that each student can interact appropriately with the content, presentation, and response mode of the test.
What is accessibility?
No person may view, reveal or discuss the contents of an assessment or student responses before, during or after a test unless authorized to do so for administration purposes such as oral testing.
What is Confidentiality?
Students can now use an electronic version of this resource.
What is a dictionary?
DS, OA, S
What are codes to bubble on the answer document?
Students may go one at a time and must have the orange pass.
What are restroom procedures?
These include twelve supports that may be made available to students who meet eligibility criteria.
What are Designated Supports?
Procedural, Serious
What are types of Testing Irregularities?
This bubble has been removed from answer documents.
What is substitute assessment?
Campuses must ensure that each student has a calculator to use when taking these STAAR tests.
What is Algebra I & Biology?
Hall monitor takes student to testing room, gets all test materials, read test instructions, and place start time on a sticky note.
What are late arrival procedures?
Procedures and materials available to any student who regularly benefits from the use of them during instruction.
What are Accessibility Features?
Test Booklets, Online Assessments, Online Test Tickets, Completed Answer Documents
What are secure materials?
No longer able to use for purposes of accountability.
What is included substitute assessments?
Collect & Destroy Immediately
What to do with used scratch & graph paper?
Post and state hourly with shorter intervals in the last hour.
What is the proper way to announce time left on the test?
Preferential Seating, Reading Aloud to Self, Scratch Paper, Highlighters, Stickies & color overlays.
What are Accessibility Features?
- placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a Texas educator certificate, either indefinitely or for a set term
-issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand
-suspension of a Texas educator certificate for a set term
-revocation or cancellation of a Texas educator certificate without opportunity for reapplication for a set term or permanently
What are penalties for violations of test security?
All general STAAR test booklets and answer documents will now have this number (Not just in the Spring)
What is a Form number?
Dates for December STAAR Testing at KHS.
What are
12/10- English I
12/11- Algebra 1
12/12- English II
12/13- Biology/ U.S. History
Prevent any of use cell phones or computer, use test manual, walk about the room, check answer documents, use clock to monitor time & maintain quiet and comfortable testing environment.
What is active test monitoring?
ARD,504, RtI, LPAC
What are the committees that can determine Designated Supports for students?