Test Security
Testing Time
STAAR 101
Procedures
What to do before/after turning materials in?
100
Signed documents that show you have received training, are aware of procedures, and will fulfill your obligations and have maintained confidentiality.
What is the Oath of Test Security & Confidentiality?
100
State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness given to our 5th and 6th grade students on April 22nd and 23rd.
What is STAAR?
100
#2 Pencil, Test Booklet, Answer Document, and their brains
What every student needs to take the test?
100
Start, break and end times, signatures of anyone who enters the room, student ID numbers, test booklet numbers, and form numbers must be recorded on me.
What is the seating chart?
100
Score Code ("S"), form numbers, TIA code (#6), EN/SP (if applicable
What has to be bubbled on all answer sheets?
200
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?
200
4 hours
What is the time limit for all STAAR tests (unless the student is receiving an accomodation)?
200
Water, bathroom, snack, mental, lunch, emergency, medical.
What are Included (Water, bathroom, and snack) & Not Included breaks (lunch, emergency, and medical)?
200
7:50 AM
What is the time student attendance slips needs to be posted on the door?
200
These should be put in numerical order and alphabetical order.
What are the test booklets and answer sheets?
300
Procedural and/or serious incidents that occur during testing that can cause you to lose your teacher certifications depending on the level.
What are Testing Irregularities?
300
You have only one, must read it before testing and use it during administration without paraphrasing it's words.
What is the STAAR manual?
300
April 17, 2014 before you leave campus
What is the deadline for having all walls and hallways covered?
300
Tagged & Bagged and locked in the cabinets in off position
What are all Cell Phones?
300
This should be completed before turning in testing materials, and it helps test administrators ensure all tasks and expectations are completed.
What is the testing checklist?
400
Notify your Campus Testing Coordinator immediately.
When there is a testing irregularity?
400
Formulas, Conversions, Graph Paper, and dictionaries
What is included (perforated pages in the test booklets) and available ?
400
Not sitting the entire time, walking around the classroom, not allowing talking during testing, ensuring students are seated a quiet before and after testing
What is active monitoring?
400
Post on the dry erase board hourly with shorter intervals in the last hour.
What is the time left for the test?
400
A proctor has arrived to my room after testing, and all of my materials are in order, bubbled, and double-checked so it is...
What is time to return all testing materials to the testing room?
500
Arrive before 7:15, count, sign, secure, complete seating chart, use testing manual, test, monitor time, review answer documents, prep materials for return, check-in, sign, relax.
What are the steps to follow on testing day?
500
Give instructions to stop testing, collect booklets and answer sheets, lock up materials, line up and walk students to the cafeteria quietly, prepare my meal, monitor students in line, walk students back to the classroom, eat quietly in room, take class restroom break, pass out materials, resume testing
What are the steps to do during the 45-minute lunch break?
500
Missing test documents, student takes the wrong test, students are left unmonitored, teacher helps students with questions using eye blinking or coughing.
What are serious testing irregularities (Can you pass me the classified ads, because I need a job)
500
Check to make sure the student have bubbled all answers (be ready to say "You have not recorded all of your answers on the answer document"), check for stray marks, check to see if their form numbers are correct
What should be done before students turn in their tests?
500
Collect my Bodacious Bubbler Award and ticket, and get ready to win one of the gift cards. Oh, and breathe because it is (or almost) over!
What are the things to do after I have bubbled perfectly, and been checked in by Ms. Lewis or Ms. Moffitt?