Test Security
Preparing the Test Environment
Things You can Say to Students
Important Times
Non-Negotiables
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
8:30-9:00am
When do test administrators come to the library to pick up materials?
100
STAR Wars trivia:a moisture farm.
What did Luke's Uncle Own operate on Tatooine?
200
Read the STAAR Testing Manual.
What should all test administrators do prior to testing dates?
200
Star Wars Trivia:Billy Dee Williams
Who played Lando Calrissian?
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
9:30 am
What is the exact time that all STAAR testing should start at MEA? (Directions read, seals opened, samples completed, pencils poised and ready!)
200
Your biggest role as test administrator.
What is supervise and actively monitor testers?
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 9:30 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
11:15 am
What time does STAAR testing stop for lunch and restroom break for students?
300
Do not view the test, discuss the test, or score a student test either before, during, or after testing.
What should a test administrator do regarding STAAR tests?
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
The writing prompt.
What are the only things students can ask to have read to them?
400
5 hours
How long do testers get for the English 1 & 2 EOC?
400
Immediately after all students in your group have finished testing.
When do you turn in your tests and materials to the CTC?
500
Erase stray marks & darken answers.
What is something the student can do that the teacher can't do?
500
Star Wars Trivia: The Galactic Republic and the Sith Alliance
What were the two opposing organizations in the Clone Wars?
500
Scratch paper, color overlays, blank place markers, magnifying devices, highlighters.
What are the allowable test procedures for any student that asks for them?
500
4 hours
How long do testers get to take the Algebra, Biology and US History EOC STAAR tests?
500
Substitutes on campus on 3/29, 3/31, 5/3, 5/4, 5/5, 5/6.
What is something that should be avoided during STAAR testing?