Welcome to the Tyler ISD New CTC Training/Orientation

1. Welcome to the Tyler ISD New CTC Training/Orientation

3. My Experience Level • 0 – No experience • 1 – Little experience • Served as a test administrator • 2 – Novice • Assisted a CTC previously • 3 – Master • Served as a CTC previously • 4 - Expert

4. What is a campus test coordinator? • Serve as the campus contact for test-related communications • Monitor and maintain test security • Identify and train test administrators • Prepare and distribute test materials on the campus for each administration

5. Testing Acronyms • DTC – District Test Coordinator • CTC – Campus Test Coordinator • TA – Test Administrator • DCCM – District and Campus Coordinator Manual • TAMS – Texas Assessment Management System • TELPAS – Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System • STAAR-A – replaced STAAR Modified • STAAR Alt – STAAR Alternate • EOC – STAAR End-of-Course • MCF – Materials Control Form • ARF – Accommodation Request Form • GA – General Accommodation • OA – Oral administration

6. What is it going to look like?

7. Who Do I Contact on Campus? • Key Resources • Special Education • LEP • 504 • Campus Leadership • Rooms • Test Administrators • Test Schedule • Develop a team!

8. Planning is key to success • Mark your calendars • 2014-2015 Assessment Calendar • Training • Mark the CTC training dates • Tentatively schedule the test specific training for your campus staff • Meet with your principal to get dates approved • Test Dates • Specific Dates vs Testing Windows • Material Return Dates • Report Dates • Release Protocols

9. Secure Test Materials • Secure Materials Storage • Required by TEA • All test booklets and answer documents must be placed in a secure, limited-access, locked storage when not in use • Secure Testing Materials Storage Certificate • Accounting for secure materials: • Before • During • After

10. Security Oaths • All district and campus personnel who participate in state-mandated testing or handle secure testing materials must sign a security oath. • Test administrators are required to sign only one oath for the 2015 calendar year, with the exception of TELPAS. • Oaths are valid for the 2015 spring, summer and fall testing.

11. Test Day - What You Need to Know • Distributing Test Materials • Identify a location where TAs will pick-up/return test materials • Secure materials must be checked out/in using a materials control form (MCF) • Test room rosters from Test Hound • Test room rosters • Printed from Test Hound • Used to complete seating chart • Seating Charts • Must be completed for each testing room • Must have the start and stop time recorded

12. Testing Irregularities It can happen to anyone…

13. Testing Irregularities • What is an irregularity?? • Incidents resulting in a deviation from documented testing procedures are defined as testing irregularities • They fall into two categories: • Serious • Severe violations of test security or confidentiality • Procedural • Less severe, more common, and typically the result of minor deviations from testing procedures • i.e. wrong test form, not reading directions verbatim

14. Is it an irregularity???

15. I have an irregularity…now what?!?!?! • Each person participating in the Texas student assessment program is responsible for reporting any violation or suspected violation of test security or confidentiality. • Gather information • Exactly what happened • Who was involved • How or why the error occurred • Call the Student Assessment Office • All staff involved must complete the “Statement from Parties Involved” • Must be printed and signed • Scan to the Student Assessment Office • A Plan of Action must be completed • How can this be prevented from happening again

16. Returning Test Materials • All test booklets must be accounted for • Answer Documents – counted and banded • Absence Verification • “O” code verification • Training Log • Seating charts and room rosters • Oaths

17. Resources

18. Assessment SharePoint • Assessment SharePoint • Libraries: • Accommodation Resources • Accommodation Policies • TEA PowerPoint presentations • Campus Folders • Test administration results • Docs & Templates • Testing related forms • Training Materials

19. Test Hound – Your New Best Friend • Online tool for organizing testing • Maintains database of students • Updated daily • Enter and track student accommodations • Special Ed • 504 • LEP • Maintain inventory of test booklets • Scanned in at the beginning and end • Matched to Pearson inventory

20. Test Hound – Your New Best Friend • Assign students and test administrators • Test Rooms • Print list of student room assignments • Test Booklets • Print out test room rosters • Will be used as materials control form • www.testhound.com

21. Texas Assessment Management System • Online Test Management • STAAR • Standardized STAAR Oral Administration Test Sessions • STAAR L Test Sessions • STAAR – A • Replacing STAAR Modified • Administered Online Only • TELPAS • Create Rating Entry Groups • Holistic ratings entered online • Online Reading Test Sessions (Gr. 2-12)

22. Pieces of the Pie

23. Tests, tests, and more tests… STAAR-A coming soon…

24. STAAR, STAAR A, & STAAR Alt • Subjects and Grades Assessed • Reading/ELA • 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th • Math • 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th • Writing • 4th & 7th • Science • 5th & 8th • Social Studies • 8th STAAR-A coming soon…

25. STAAR EOC • 5 Subject Area Tests • English I • English II • Algebra I • Biology • U.S. History

26. TELPAS • All LEP Students in grades K-12 • Assessed in four language domains • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing

27. TELPAS • Grades K-1 • Holistically rated observational assessments of listening, speaking, reading and writing • Grades 2-12 • Online reading test • Holistically rated student writing collections • Holistically rated observational assessments of listening and speaking

28. 2014-2015 School year