TEST COORDINATORS' NEWS: September 24, 2010
Deliver LAB-R and Spanish LAB Answer Documents to Borough Assessment Office
All schools / Deadline: October 1
LAB-R and Spanish LAB exams are administered only when a student first enrolls in the
New York State public school system. Please hand-score the tests at the school site
and hand-deliver answer documents to your Borough Assessment Office by noon on
October 1. Assessment Memo #2. If you have additional questions, contact Jose
Garcia at jgarcia17@schools.nyc.gov.
District drop-off locations are as follows:
LAB-R AND SPANISH LAB DELIVERY INFORMATION
Borough
Assessment Implementation
Director (AID)
LAB Drop-off Location(s)
LAB Drop-off:
Date
& Time
ManhattanDistricts 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, & 6
Marie Busiello
Mbusiel@schools.nyc.gov
212 356-3784
212 356-7523 fax
Sharon Cahr
Scahr@schools.nyc.gov
718 741-5559
718 741-7971 fax
David Rapheal
Draphea@schools.nyc.gov
718 935-5965
718 935-5941 fax
333 Seventh Avenue
Seventh Floor
New York, NY
October 1,
2010
BY 12:00 NOON
1 Fordham Plaza
Seventh Floor
Bronx, NY
October 1,
2010
BY 12:00 NOON
131 Livingston Street
Room 608
Brooklyn, NY
October 1,
2010
BY 12:00 NOON
Barbara Marcisak
Bmarcis@schools.nyc.gov
718 391-8352
718 391-6088 fax
44-36 Vernon Blvd.
Room 202 Long Island
City, NY
OR
82-01 Rockaway Blvd,
Ozone Park, NY
Room 420
OR
30-48 Linden Place,
Flushing, NY Room 509
715 Ocean Terrace
Building A Rm. 127
Staten Island, NY
OR
5619 Flatlands Ave., Lower
Level Brooklyn NY
October 1,
2010
BY 12:00 NOON
Bronx- Districts 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, & 12
BrooklynDistricts 13, 14,
15, 16, 19, 23, &
32
Queens-Districts
24, 25, 26, 27,
28,29, & 30
Staten IslandDistricts 17, 18,
20, 21, 22, & 31
Judy Cohen
Jcohen32@schools.nyc.gov
718 390-1579
718 420-5665 fax
October 1,
2010
BY 12:00 NOON
LAB-R AND SPANISH LAB PACKING PROCEDURES:
1) Include principal’s certification (Attachment 4) (DOE username and password login required)
2) Package answer documents in four separate brown testing envelopes. Label each of the
four testing envelopes with one of the four labels below. Use a maximum of 4 brown
document return envelopes:
Envelope labels:
- LAB-R for General Education Students
- LAB-R for Special Education Students
- Spanish LAB for General Education Students
- Spanish Lab for Special Education Students
3) Poly bags are included in the packing materials received by the school. Place one gradelevel in each poly bag. DO NOT MIX GRADES IN A POLY BAG. Please fill out the header
on each poly bag according to these instructions:
GENERAL EDUCATION HEADERS
- fill in all areas on general education header
- In the teacher’s name field please write the grade level (i.e. teacher’s name: Grade 3)
- Please write 000 in the class field
SPECIAL EDUCATION HEADERS
- fill in all areas on special education header
- In the teacher’s name field please write SPECIAL EDUCATION
- Please write 000 in the class field
4) ANSWER DOCUMENTS
- fill in the following areas on bio side of answer document for ALL students – last name,
first name, student id #, date of birth, sex, GRADE, home language, FORM B, borough,
district, school, test date
- fill in the following additional information on the bio side of the answer document for
Special Education students, such as tested with modification (if applicable)
Updates on Periodic Assessments
Events/Deadlines: through October 13
Visit the Periodic Assessment team’s Web site for the latest updates on Periodic Assessments
and links to free professional development opportunities. Here’s what’s important this week:
ELL
ELL Fall Administration materials will be arriving in the schools that selected them by
September 28; please see the ELL Fall Administration (September 29-October 13) memo for
detailed information about this administration.
Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP)
Schools that use the TCRWP curriculum and assessments but did not select TCRWP as
Periodic Assessment can complete this survey by October 1 to have their data loaded into
AssessmentPro. Schools that fill out the survey will see their student data in the system on
October 26. This opportunity only applies to schools that are already using TCRWP and will not
be available after the survey deadline passes.
Schools that signed up for TCRWP during the Periodic Assessment selections window last June
will have all data for students in grades K-8 loaded to AssessmentPro during the next data
refresh and will be available October 26.
To access the links above from a computer that is not on the DOE network, use these links:
Periodic Assessment PW Updates, and ELL Fall Administration.
Louise Smith
Assessment Implementation Director
New York City Department of Education
Division of Performance and Accountability
Scan Center Office
44-36 Vernon Blvd.
Long Island City, NY 11101
phone: 718 349-5646
fax: 718 349-5642
email: lsmith2@schools.nyc.gov