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Test Security
Preparing the Test Environment
Things You can Say to Students
Important Times
Updates
100
The only acceptable place to keep tests and answer sheets during lunch break and transition times.
What is your locked room?
100
"Testing-Do Not Disturb" sign
What is posted on all classroom doors where testing is occuring?
100
"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?
100
7:20-7:45 am
When is complimentary breakfast and a quick dose of cross lateral exercises served to test takers?
100

The maximum allowable testing time limit for 2024 STAAR

What is 7 hours?  Must complete the assessment within the same school day.  

All students will be stopped prior to the end of the school day.

200
Read the STAAR Testing Manual.
What should all test administrators do prior to testing dates?
200
Covered or Removed by Monday noon
What are bulletin boards and instructional displays that might be a resource of direct answers?
200
"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?
200
7:50 am SHARP
What is the exact time that all STAAR testing starts at Buffalo Creek? (Directions read, seals opened, samples completed, pencils poised and ready!)
200

If a student has to leave the room and have not submitted their test.

What is the student must hit pause in the top corner and exit the test for SECURITY purposes?

Once they return, they will log back in using their test ticket and session ID.

300
Accounting for test booklets and answer documents.
What is the teacher's responsibility before, during and after the test?
300
Start Time
What is 8:00 am sharp? What is recorded on the seating chart and on the white board?
300
"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?
300
12:00 am
What time does STAAR testing stop for lunch and restroom break?
300

The student is logged out.

What is 20 minutes of student inactivity?

They can log back in with their test ticket and session ID.

400
"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)?
400
2 sharpened pencils and an eraser
What are necessary supplies needed by the students?
400
4th grade Writing Prompt and 3rd grade Math Questions & Answer Choices
What are the only things students can ask to have read to them?
400

"Are you still there?" warning pops up.

What is 5 minutes of student inactivity?

500
Erase stray marks & darken answers.
What is something the student can do that the teacher can't do?
500
Closed Campus-No Visitors or Volunteers
What is something to put in my next newsletter?
500
2:15 for LEP students and 12:00 for all students
When will all testing be completed at Buffalo Creek?
500

If a student requests to have any part of a question/problem read aloud to them, the test will be paused, TTS will need to be enabled by the CTC, and student log back in and resume testing with headphones.

What is 3rd Grade STAAR Math Test?

A test administrator may NOT read from a student's screen.

3rd Grade students do not need an accommodation in Math for this assistance.

Reading Assistance-Extended/Short Constructive Response Questions may NOT be read to any student regardless if they request it.