Test Security
The only acceptable place to keep tests and answer sheets during lunch break and transition times.
What is in the STAAR closet or with someone who has been trained at all times?
"Testing-Do Not Disturb" sign
What is posted on all classroom doors where testing is occuring?
"You have not recorded all of your responses on the answer document. Please go back and mark your answers on it now."
What is the response to collecting an empty answer sheet?
Before leaving the day before a STAAR test.
When do test administrators get their testing environment cleared for STAAR test?
Books and lunch boxes
What do students and test administrations need to get before leaving with a small group for testing?
Read the STAAR Testing Manual.
What should all test administrators do prior to testing dates?
What is getting my room cleared for testing enviornment?
"I can't answer that for you; just do the best you can."
What is the response to questions you are not permitted to answer?
The All Call, usually around 8:00 a.m.
What is the best time that all STAAR testing should start at SHCP?
Technology/Computers/Phones
What needs to be powered off while testing it taking place on campus in testing rooms?
Accounting for test booklets and answer documents.
What is the teacher's responsibility before, during and after the test?
Start Time
What is after the all call to start testing? What is recorded on the seating chart and on the white board?
"Remember that you must record your responses on the answer document. Be sure to erase any stray marks that you might have accidentally made on your answer document."
What should the teacher periodically remind students to do?
7:00 a.m.
What time do test administrators begin to pick up their testing buckets?
Paper tapped to outside of door
What should anyone sign upon entering a testing room?
"Failure to verify that a student filled in his or her responses on the answer document."
What is a Monitoring Error/Testing Irregularity (that can result in suspension of a teaching certificate)?
2 sharpened pencil, an eraser, highlighter, sticky notes, blank paper
What are supplies that students can use on the test?
3rd grade math student raises hands and points to a word or phrase of words.
What is 3rd grade math reading assistance with requested by the student?
All Day
How long do testers get for the STAAR test with extended time?
Immediately after all students in your group have finished testing.
When do you turn in your tests and materials to the STAAR closet?
Erase stray marks & darken answers.
What is something the student can do that the teacher can't do? What is something a test administration should ask a student to do?
Anything content related
What is covered up or taken down in the hallway and classroom before the room check on May 10th.
You are allowed these accommodations to use on the test. Please feel free to use them as you need during the test.
4 hours
How long do testers get to take the STAAR tests?
Read a book or put your head down.
What do testing room do when they are all done teseting?