Campus Test
Administrator Training
2014 Exit Retest
TAKS, TAKS-Acc
Brownsville Independent School District
Assessment Research & Evaluation Department
This PowerPoint does not
eliminate your requirement
to read the general and
specific Test Administrator
Manuals.
READ THE MANUALS!!
Get the message?
Campus Test Administrator
Responsibilities
TAKS
TAKS Accom
Test Administrator Responsibilities
• Read the Test
Administrator Manuals
both general and specific.
• Attend training
conducted by your
campus test coordinator.
• Receive secure testing
materials from your
campus test coordinator.
• Observe all rules
regarding test security
and confidential integrity
of the state testing
system.
• Administer the tests in
strict compliance with the
directions in the Test
Administrator Manuals.
• Supervise and actively
monitor testing.
• Do not provide any
unauthorized assistance to
students during testing.
• Do not view the test,
discuss the test, or score a
student test either before,
during, or after testing.
Test Administrator Responsibilities
• Mark the appropriate
•
score code and test taken
information code for each
student test
administered.
•
• Return all testing
materials to the campus
test coordinator
immediately after
students finish testing.
Report testing irregularities
and security violations
immediately to the district
test coordinator.
Prepare statements for
submission to TEA if you are
involved in a testing
irregularity or test security
violation.
Test Security
Successful Testing Begins and Ends with
Good Test Security and Confidential
Integrity
Test Security Objectives
1) Account for all secure materials
before, during, and after each
test administration.
2) Protect the contents of all tests
booklets and student answer
documents.
Properly Controlling Secure
Testing Materials
• Secure materials must be stored under lock
and key with limited access when not in use.
• Never leave secure materials unsecured in
our room.
• Test administrators will check out secure
testing materials on the morning of testing
from the campus testing coordinator and will
return them immediately when students
finish testing.
Protecting Test Content
• No person may view, reveal, or discuss the
contents of a test or answer document
unless specifically instructed to do so by the
procedures in the test administrator
manuals.
• No person providing an oral administration,
may write notes, calculations, or any other
marks in a test booklet or in any other
location.
Protecting Test Content
• Secure materials may not be duplicated by
test administrators.
• Seals on test booklets may only be broken
during testing sessions and only by persons
authorized to do so in the instructions.
• No person may answer verbally or
nonverbally any question that relates to the
contents of a test before, during, or after a
test administration.
• No person may review or discuss student
responses during or after testing unless
specifically authorized to do so by the
procedures in the TA manuals.
Testing Procedures Related to
Test Security and Confidentiality
• All tests must be administered in strict
accordance with the manuals.
• No person may change any student response
or instruct a student to do so.
• Districts must actively monitor testing
sessions and require test administrators to
actively monitor during testing.
• Only students can erase stray marks or
darken response ovals on their answer
documents or in their scorable test booklets
and only during the testing session.
Testing Procedures Related to
Test Security and Confidentiality
• There must be a trained test administrator
present with students one-hundred percent
of the time until students complete testing
and submit their answer documents to the
test administrator.
– This includes breaks and lunch.
Test Administrator
Security Oaths
•
•
TEA requires that everyone be trained and
sign a security oath before handling secure
testing materials or participating in the
administration of a state test.
There is one TA oath with two place to sign:
1) TA General Oath (top portion)
2) Specific portion of oath (bottom) - if
applicable
*Same oath as the STAAR TA oath
A new test
administrator oath
must be signed for
each test
administration.
• Sign Section 1 after
your training.
• Sign Section 2 if you will
have access to view
secure testing items
such as test items or
answers.
• Who signs? Examples
are test administrators
that provide:
– Oral administrators
– Linguistic
accommodations
– Transcribing
Active Monitoring
• Monitoring during test administrations is the
responsibility of the test administrator, the campus
test coordinator, the campus principal, and the district
test coordinator.
– Teachers are required to actively monitor students during testing.
– Principals and Campus Test Coordinators are required to actively
monitor testing sessions at their campus.
What Is Active Monitoring?
Watching students during testing. The focus of the
teacher’s attention is on the students and not
elsewhere.
– Walking around to better observe what students
are doing. (Are students; working on correct
section of test, marking answers on the answer
document, not cheating, not using cell phones,
not talking or communicating with other students,
etc.?)
What is NOT Active Monitoring?
• Anything that takes the test administrator’s attention
away from the students during testing. Examples
include;
–
–
–
–
Working on the computer or doing email.
Reading a book, magazine, or newspaper.
Grading papers or doing lesson planning.
Leaving the room without a trained substitute test
administrator in the room.
– Leaving students unattended during lunch or breaks.
• Be sure to not read the test content over a student’s
shoulder and do not examine specific student
responses during testing, since doing these will be a
test security violation committed while active
monitoring.
Cell Phones
• The use of cell phones or other two-way
communication devices is prohibited during
testing for students and test administrators.
• The reason is that cell phones can….
– disrupt the testing environment,
– be used to cheat by obtaining unauthorized
assistance on test content by students, and can
– be used to image secure tests and compromise
the confidentiality of the test with their camera
feature by students and teachers.
Seating Chart Rule
• Seating Charts are required for all test administrations.
Seating Charts must include:
– Location of testing session (campus, room) and a
brief description of the testing area (classroom,
library, broom closet, etc.)
– The assessment being given including grade and
subject.
– The first and last names of the test administrator(s).
– The first and last names of each student and where
they were seated for testing.
• If students are re-grouped during testing an additional
seating chart will be needed for the new group. The
new seating chart should indicate the time students
were regrouped.
Departures from Test
Administration Procedures
• Incidents resulting in a deviation from
documented testing procedures are
defined as testing irregularities.
• Each person participating in the testing
program is responsible for reporting
immediately to the district testing
coordinator any violation or suspected
violation of test security or
confidentially, including all testing
irregularities.
Serious Testing Irregularities
• Testing irregularities that constitute a
disclosure of secure testing materials or
altering student results either directly or
indirectly are considered serious.
• Examples include;
– Viewing the test before, during, or after testing
unless authorized by the testing procedures.
– Scoring student tests.
– Discussing secure test content or student
responses.
– Copying or photographing secure testing materials
without permission by TEA
– Directly or Indirectly assisting students during
testing.
– Tampering with student responses on answer
documents.
Penalties for Prohibited Conduct
• 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; or
• Revocation or cancellation of a Texas educator
certificate without opportunity for reapplication for a
set term or permanently.
• Possible criminal prosecution under TEC ξ39.0303,
Section 552.352 of the Texas Government Code, and
Section 37.10 of the Texas Penal Code.
Test Schedule and Directions
• All tests must be
administered on the
scheduled day.
• All tests must be
administered in strict
accordance with the
instructions contained in
the test administration
manuals.
Testing Schedule
TAKS
•
•
•
•
April 21st – ELA
April 22nd – Math
April 23rd – Science
April 24th – Social Studies
TAAS (if anyone testing)
• April 21st - TAKS ELA Writing (writing prompt + revising and editing section)
• April 22nd - TAKS Math
• April 23rd - TAKS ELA reading (multiple-choice items only)
Answer Documents
Coding the Answer Documents
• Mark the test taken on answer documents .
• The campus test coordinator will take care of coding
the accommodations and verifying the demographic
coding on the front of the answer document is
correct.
Test Administration
Procedures
Testing Guidelines
• Tests must be administered on the dates
specified in the State Testing Calendar of
Events.
• At least one test administrator for every 30
students.
• “Testing – Do Not Disturb” signs posted on
testing rooms.
• Testing rooms should be quiet, well lighted,
well ventilated, and comfortable.
• Bulletin Boards and instructional displays
covered or removed if it contains anything
that might aid students during testing.
Testing Procedures
• Do not allow students to bubble in the
demographic fields on the front of the answer
document.
• No cell phones or other two-way
telecommunication devices (students or
teachers).
• Students may use highlighters in non-scorable
test booklets.
Testing Procedures
• No scratch paper for any TAKS testing (except as an
accommodation following the guidelines on p. 22 of the Accommodations Manual ).
• Test administrators are not allowed to answer
any question relating to the content of the test
itself.
• Test administrators must actively monitor
students during testing.
• Test administrators cannot leave the room
unless a trained substitute test administrator is
present.
• May change testing rooms as long as test
security is not breached.
Testing Procedures
• Reinforcing, reviewing, and/or distributing
testing strategies during an assessment is strictly
prohibited.
• You cannot require students to use any particular
test taking strategy. Students can use test taking
strategies but you cannot require them to do so
during the testing. This includes first marking
answers in test booklet and then transferring
them later to the answer document.
• Students must be allowed to work (not sleep) at
their own pace. Students may not be directed to
speed up or slow down.
Testing Procedures
• Students must remain seated during testing
and are not allowed to talk while test
booklets are open.
• Students are not allowed to work on a
previous section of the test or a section that
has not yet been administered.
• Brief breaks in the testing room are allowed
at the discretion of the test administrator.
• Lunch breaks are permitted, however
students must remain as a group and be
monitored by a trained test administrator so
they do not discuss the test.
Time Requirements
for Testing
• All TAKS tests are untimed. Each student
must be allowed to have as much time as
necessary to respond to every test item.
• Districts are not required to test beyond the
regular school hours, but they are free to do
so if they so choose.
– Brownsville ISD guideline for state testing – All campuses
will allow students to test beyond the normal school
ending time.
– It is important for all campuses to begin testing within the
first hour of the school day to allow students adequate
time to complete their TAKS tests.
Dictionaries and Thesauruses
• It is required to provide English-language
dictionaries and thesauruses to students for
the following TAKS and TAKS Acc. tests.
– Exit Retest ELA – reading and composition
portions of test, not revising and editing.
– Foreign language dictionaries are not
permitted.
After Testing Procedures
• The test administrator must inspect the
answer document to be sure the student
bubbled in answers as instructed. This is also
the last time to have students erase stray
marks and darken answer choices if needed.
• After student testing materials are collected,
students may be allowed to quietly read
books or leave the testing room. (Must not
disturb others still testing.)
• Immediately after each test session, the test
administrator must return all test materials to
the campus coordinator.
Testing Accommodations
Returning Testing Materials
• Verify that no answer documents have
inadvertently been left in test booklets.
• Make sure that any transcribing that is
required for special testing situations has
been done. Remember that “Transcribed
by” and “Reason” must be recorded on the
top of all transcribed answer documents.
You have now completed the TAKS
Administrator Training !