Unbridled L earning: C ollege & Career R eadiness for All

1. 2013 K-Prep BAC TrainingK-PREP Testing WindowMay 20th– May 24th(Makeup sessions – May 28th – May 31st) Unbridled Learning: College & Career Readiness for All

2. NEW FOR 2013 • Administration Code and Inclusion of Special Populations regulations are unchanged, 2009 versions still effective. • Time Chart revised to incorporate time buffer from 2012. Chart shows times and number of items per grade level and subjects. • Student Honor Code – Added to focus on test security. TAM is scripted to direct student review and completion.

3. This time last year…

4. Currently in the news…

5. Currently in Atlanta news… • “….Investigators say educators gave answers to students or changed answers on tests after they were turned in…..” • “Indictment alleges that 35 educators conspired to conceal cheating or retaliate against “whistleblowers” “ in an effort to increase test scores… • 2100interviews over 12 months involving 800,000 documents • “Superintendent charged with violation of RacketeeringInfluence and CorruptionAct, falsestatements and writing, theftbytakingafalseswearing.” • Faces up to 45 years in prison • Recommended 7.5 million dollar bond • Human Resources officer and three executive directors also indicted • At least 30 educators (including principals, APs, test coordinators, teachers, school improvement specialists and a secretary were indicted) • 56 schools involved

6. Currently in Atlanta news… CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports that nearly 200 educators admitted to taking part in the massive scandal: they tampered with students' standardized tests and corrected answers to inflate scores. Some teachers had pizza parties to erase wrong answers and circle in the right ones. One principal allegedly handled altered tests wearing gloves to avoid leaving her fingerprints.

7. Test Security • Continues to be a critical issue in Kentucky and nationally. • Loss of certification for Kentucky educators emphasizes the seriousness of the issue. • OAA implements recommendations from Kentucky’s security audit. • A Student Honor Code statement has been added to 2013 Student Response Booklets.

8. Test Security State Monitoring • KDE Test window visits • Review of seating charts • Review/audit of randomly collected AAA Folders for alternate assessment students • Analysis of outlier test results by Office of Education Accountability • Analysis by vendors (i.e., erasure and others)

9. Test Security State Monitoring ERASURE REPORTING • KDE is analyzing results from spring 2012 testing. • Reports will be released to DACs. • Erasures will be sorted by average. • Identifies schools with highest averages. • Can analyze patterns. • Analysis of Wrong to Right is available. • Analysis can drill down to testing room level.

10. Test Security • Jefferson County Public Schools will continue to run an ethical, clean testing program because it is what is best for our students.

11. Responsibilities for BACsTest Security Required Activities • Appropriate training of regulations—Administration Code and Inclusion of Special Populations (2009 versions) • Signatures on Appropriate Practices Form and Administration Code • Provide a copy of the Test Administrator’s Manual (TAM) to every test administrator/proctor • Scheduling Test Sessions • School Test Materials Security Checklist • Seating charts that reflect everyone in each testing room (adults and students) • Bubbling of testing room location codes by content area tests on student response booklets

12. SECURE TEST MATERIALSInventorying and Tracking Test Materials • It is mandatory to use the Test Materials Security Checklist. • It will be collected during your test materials check in appointment. • Any irregularities regarding the use or tracking of documents or the information captured on them must be investigated. • If a security breach is discovered, contact The JCPS Testing Unit immediately. • Store test materials in a secure area when not in use for testing. • Storage locations within CLASSROOMS must be secured with DOUBLE locks. • BACs may keep secure test materials secure under single lock and key. No other staff may have access to the BAC secure storage.

13. SUPERVISING TEST SESSIONS WITH AND WITHOUT ACCOMMODATIONS • Test administrators are responsible for providing appropriate accommodations as defined in Kentucky regulation 703 KAR:070, Inclusion of Special Populations in the State-Required Assessment and Accountability Programs • Provide the required accommodations identified in the student’s current Individualized Education Plan (IEP), 504 Plan or Program Services Plan (PSP).

14. SUPERVISING TEST SESSIONS WITH AND WITHOUT ACCOMMODATIONS • Test administrators providing accommodations may NOT leave students unsupervised at any time. • Administrators must focus their full attention on students and their testing environment while supervising testing. • Under no circumstances will a student be allowed to modify his or her response to a question in a part of the test that has been completed, nor will a student be allowed to work ahead in a part not yet administered.

15. ALERT PAPERS • The BAC or school administrator is responsible for reporting the situation to proper school and district authorities, including the DAC. • Those authorities should follow school or district policy for handling the situation. • If there is a need for local authorities or parents to see the student response, security should be explained and a nondisclosure form signed by all parties before viewing the response. • A copy of the nondisclosure form should be submitted to the Testing Unit. The nondisclosure form is located on Testing Unit website.

16. Approved Testing Resource Materials

17. Unapproved Testing Resource Materials • Students are NOT permitted to use the tools and resource materials listed below: • Books other than those specified above (e.g., encyclopedias, textbooks) Note: Once testing has been completed and a student’s testing materials have been removed from the testing station, the student may read. • Copies of acronyms • Graphic organizers • Computers • Editing devices (e.g., spell-checker or grammar-checker) • Cell phones, Smart phones • Electronic devices (e.g., iPods, iPads, or other music players, pocket translators, PDAs) • Highlighters • No scratch paper allowed for on-demand writing. Highlighters

18. PART 2 ACCOUNTABILITY AND TESTING VERIFICATIONS (pp. 18 - 21 )

19. PART 3 WHO SHOULD BE TESTED?(pp. 22 - 28 )

20. Who Takes the K-PREP? Required to Test Not Required to Test Students in the Alternate K-PREP Student’s skipped grade Foreign Exchange students Students with medical or extraordinary circumstances exemptions • Students in grades 3-8 and 10-11, including those with disabilities • Students who are retained • Students who move during testing • Students with a minor medical emergency • EL students in their first year are required to attempt mathematics and science (four multiple-choice or one extended response). • EL students in their second year and later participate in all content areas.

21. Medical Emergencies • Call the Testing Unit for approval PRIOR to using the accommodation. • Accommodations MAY or MAY NOT be approved • Medical Emergency form is located on Testing Unit website • Complete form and fax to Testing Unit 485-3775 • Annotate roster in SDRR with accommodation(s) given and indicate “medical emergency”

22. Medical Emergency Examples • Student broke his/her writing arm • Scribe • Student broke his/her eyeglasses • Scribe & Reader (READING, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, or On-demand Writing) • Scribe & Large Print or Projector (Reading) • Student with leg in traction • Different setting or schedule if not heavily medicated

23. PART 4 ACCOMMODATIONS(pp. 29 - 36 ) REMEMBER: ALL ACCOMMODATIONS MUST BE STUDENT INITIATED!

24. ACCOMMODATIONS With very few exceptions, all students in grades 3 through 8, 10 and 11 will participate in the K-PREP. Students may be provided with assessment accommodations, based on evaluation data, if the following criteria are met: The accommodations must be identified in the student’s current IEP, 504 Plan or PSP. The student must have received the accommodation throughout the year during classroom instruction and not just before the testing window. The use of an accommodation during the state-required assessment shall be initiated by the student. The accommodations shall not impact the content validity being measured.

25. ACCOMMODATIONS Occasionally, noncertified staff members or volunteers provide accommodations for students. Please note that such people should receive thorough training in assessment practices and are required to sign the nondisclosure form. Training must include two regulations 703 KAR 5:070—Inclusion of Special Populations in the State-Required Assessment and Accountability Programs 703 KAR 5:080—Administration Code for Kentucky’s Educational Assessment Programs. Assessment regulations and training materials are on the JCPS Testing Unit website.

26. ACCOMMODATIONS Update student’s information in SDRR to indicate any accommodations used during testing. There are a variety of assessment accommodations that may be used for students with disabilities on the K-PREP, including the following: 1. Use of assistive technology 2. Manipulatives 3. Readers 4. Scribes 5. Paraphrasing 6. Extended time 7. Reinforcement and behavioral modification strategies 8. Prompting and cueing 9. Interpreters for students with deafness or hearing impairment (signing) 10. Simplified language and oral native language support for EL

27. MANIPULATIVES MUSTbe requested by the student Cannot be placed on a student’s desk but placed where the student can access them if needed. Student shall not be encouraged to use specific manipulatives.

28. The role of the reader during the state-required assessments is to: • Read directions, prompts, situations, passages and stories as written; • Not use or provide additional information or directions that may lead the student to specific information needed to answer; • Re-read the directions, prompts, situations, passages and stories only if specifically requested by the student; • Not point out parts of the task, questions or parts skipped by the student; and • Read individual words or abbreviations that are mispronounced by text or screen readers, if specifically requested by the student. READERS

29. At the student’s request, a scribe’s role shall be to record the student’s responses so that they reflect what the student knows and is able to do while providing the student with an alternative means to express his or her thoughts and knowledge. At no time shall a student’s ideas, revisions or editing be characterized as teacher-authored. In all components of the K-PREP, a student shall be the sole creator, author and owner of his or her work. A scribe shall record student responses in a manner consistent with the accommodations described in the student’s current IEP or 504 Plan. • A scribe shall: • Record what the student dictates word for word. • Format, capitalize and punctuate the student’s writing as directed by the student. • Give the written product to the student to edit or revise. • Not alter, edit or revise a student’s own ideas, revisions or edits. SCRIBES

30. Paraphrasing for the K-PREP shall be consistent with classroom instruction and shall include: • Repeating or rephrasing on-demand tasks, directions, questions or situations at the student’s request. • Breaking sentences into parts or segments or using similar words or phrases. • SHALL NOT include defining words or concepts or telling a student what to do first, second, etc. • Reading passages and content passages may not be paraphrased as that would impact content validity. • Reading passages and content passages may NOT be paraphrased as that would impact content validity. PARAPHRASING

31. Extended time must be requested by the student. • The use of extended time shall be utilized as long as the student is demonstrating on-task efforts which allow the student to make progress on completing his/her assessment responses. • The school shall provide proper supervision to maintain an appropriate assessment atmosphere. EXTENDED TIME

32. Reinforcement and behavior modification strategies are allowed on the state-required assessment when they are documented in a student’s IEP or behavior intervention plan and are used on a routine basis during instruction. • Strategies may include: • Verbal, tangible or tactile reinforcements for being on task • Use of technology to focus attention or reduce stress • Testing in a separate location outside the regular classroom REINFORCEMENT AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION STRATEGIES

33. Personal reference notebooks and cue cards, • They are personal and not generic. • For use on the state-required assessments, these cueing notebooks cannot contain content. • The use of these strategies and guides for assessment shall be student-initiated and not teacher-initiated. • These must be listed on the student’s IEP, 504Plan or PSP and used on a daily basis during instruction. PROMPTING AND CUEING

34. PART 5 SCHEDULING TEST SESSIONS(pp. 37 - 40 )

35. CONTENT AREAS TESTED

36. TESTING TIMES GRADES 3 - 6

37. TESTING TIMES IMPORTANT NOTES • The number of passages in Reading Part C varies across the different forms of the test form (1-10). • Field test items are included in the charts above. • Time is designated in minutes.

38. K-PREP Scheduling • Testing is to be 5 consecutive days during the last 14 instructional days of the district calendar. • Any day a regular test session is scheduled is considered one of the 5 testing days even if only one session is done on that day.

39. K-PREP Scheduling • All students in a grade/school must take each part of the test at the same time. • Content area tests may be divided across one or two days only. • Each part is to be given as a separate session with a break in between. • Allow for breaks when developing schedule. • Breaks may be short (i.e., stand and stretch) or long (i.e. lunch) with appropriate monitoring. • Breaks are necessary due to test norming.

40. K-PREP Scheduling • Extended time is allowed only for students with IEPs, 504s, or PSPs specifying extended time. • Make arrangements for the extended time in a manner that allows other students to go back to instructional activities. • It is important to schedule start times of sessions to allow time between sessions or the end of the school day for extended time for IEP, 504 Plan or PSP students. • The scheduled time should be adequate for most students. At the end of the day, students with regular and extended time need to have finished the same parts of the test.

41. ECE “holding rooms” • If there is a shortage of accommodators, such that all students cannot be tested at the same time, a school may create a “holding room” for students awaiting accommodations. •  Accommodators work with students one at a time.  They pick up one student, go to the testing room, test the student on the appropriate section(s) for the day and then pick up the next student for testing from the “holding room.”  • Another method schools may use (elementary) is to place the students awaiting accommodations in primary (non-testing) classrooms while they wait. • Students who have not been tested, may not mix at any time with those who have been tested.

42. Make-up Schedule • BACs should have Test administrators keep a list of students who are absent during the regularly scheduled testing so that makeup sessions can be scheduled. • Make-up sessions can be done during the 5-day window or during the 4 days after the window ends while test materials are prepared for shipping. • It is recommended to schedule a make-up session as soon as is reasonably possible after the missed test session. • Seating charts are required for make-up sessions.

43. STORAGE OF SECURE MATERIALS • Store test materials in a secure area when not in use for testing. • Storage locations within CLASSROOMS must be secured with DOUBLE locks. • BACsmay keep secure test materials secure under single lock and key. • Double locked is recommended if possible. • No other staff may have access to the BAC secure storage area.

44. SEATING CHARTS • Seating charts are REQUIRED for both individual and group testing. • Room location must be recorded on the student response booklet. • A single chart can be used for multiple sessions; • ONLY if the seating arrangement and room location do not change, mark the date for each session.

45. SEATING CHARTS - GROUP

46. SEATING CHARTS - GROUP

47. SEATING CHARTS - INDIVIDUAL

48. STUDENT HONOR CODE As a result of the Kentucky security audit, a Student Honor Code statement has been added to back of the 2013 Student Response Booklets.

49. TEST BOOK PAGESSTOP AFTER SAMPLE

50. TEST BOOK PAGESNUMBERING IN THE READING TEST Some number every paragraph Some number every three or five paragraphs or stanzas 1 2 3 3