An Overview of today’s Presentation

1. An Overview of today’s Presentation • Sources for the Information in this Presentation: • 2009-2010 Examiner’s Manual • Kansas Assessment Fact Sheet: Appropriate Testing Practices 2009-2010 • Test Security Plan– 6 Slides • Test Security Guidelines—26 Slides • Prior to the Test • During the Test • After the Test • What’s Next?

2. Test Security Plan: New KSDE Requirements for Training in Test Security From the 2009 Examiner’s Manual, p. 4: • KSDE requires “District Test Coordinators to be trained in test security procedures.” • KSDE requires “District Test Coordinators to train building level personnel in test security” before local testing begins. • KSDE requires “local personnel to sign an agreement to abide by state ethical testing practices.”

3. Test Security Plan: AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY GUIDELINES (p. 31 Examiner’s Manual) • The following is an optional agreement to abide by the guidelines in the Examiner’s Manual. To use this agreement make a copy of this page for the appropriate staff members. The signed agreement should be returned to the building principal. I have and understand the information in this document and agree to abide by the guidelines set forth. _____________________________________________ Signature Date

4. Test Security Plan: AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY GUIDELINES • Pick up a master copy of the KSDE Agreement here. • Make copies for your staff who will be administering or handling state assessment materials. • When you deliver the Test Security training at the building, ask participants to sign the agreement.

5. Test Security Plan: New Requirements for Posting Test Schedules Source: Examiner’s Manual, p. 4 • “District test coordinators will provide the State Assessment Office with accurate testing schedules by school for all classes.” • “There will be an on-line site for this.” NOTE: Send schedule to Dr. Heiman by Monday, Feb 1, 2010. • “If schedules change, it is required that online schedules be updated.” NOTE: Send any updated schedules to Dr. Heiman.

6. Test Security Plan: KSDE Required Documentation District test coordinators must keep on file: • Documentation forms for read-alouds • Documentation forms for paper/pencil tests • Sign in/out rosters of read-aloud scripts to school test coordinators • School sign in/out rosters of read-aloud scripts to proctor-readers • KSDE will check this documentation in a random unannounced visit.

7. Test Security Plan: KSDE Site Visits • “KSDE Staff and the members of the Kansas Assessment Advisory Council will visit 5-10% of Kansas schools during test administration.” • “KSDE will use an adaptation of the NAEP checklist when evaluating testing sessions.”

8. Test Security Guidelines: Reports of Test Irregularities • Teachers, Aids, ICs, Principals, IEDs report any breach of test security, loss of materials, “or any other deviation” to Dr. Heiman (cell 913-645-3538).

9. Test Security Guidelines: Test Tickets • “A designated person either (1) at each school or (2) at each district should be responsible for distributing all the testing materials and KCA tickets.” • In USD 500, this person should be the building test coordinator, who • can access the tickets, • print them, and • issue the tickets to teachers, who, in turn, distribute them to and collect them from students.

10. Test Security Guidelines: Distributing Test Tickets to Students • Test Coordinators should provide test proctors with the single sheet roster listing students, their user names, and their passwords for each test session • Test Coordinators or Test proctors should separate test tickets into session 1, 2, and 3. Double check to see that students receive the proper session number • Distribute test ticket to students, NOT to computers or chairs. Verify that each child receives the correct test ticket.

11. Test Security Guidelines: Security of Paper Tests and Read-Aloud Scripts • School Test Coordinators • Pick up paper tests and read-aloud scripts from Dr. Heiman; sign out these materials immediately before tests. • Scripts cannot be distributed earlier than 24 hrs before 1st session of testing • Sign out/in scripts and paper tests to proctors on a daily basis. • Store test materials in a secure area

12. Test Security Guidelines: Copying Items • Do NOT • Copy, reproduce, or paraphrase test materials • Review tests or analyze test items before, during, or after tests • “DO NOT use actual or altered test questions (clone or parallel) for practice or instruction.” (Appropriate Testing Practices Fact Sheet 2009-2010)

13. Test Security Guidelines: Prior to Test • DO distribute Examiner’s Manuals • DO have proctors read all relevant parts of the manual

14. Test Security Guidelines: Prior to Test • Teachers remove or cover with opaque material Bulletin board displays • Charts • Other instructional materials, • test-taking strategies, • mnemonics, • Remove these materials • in classrooms, • in the testing room, • or in the halls leading to the testing room

15. Test Security Guidelines: Actual and Formative Tests Prior to Testing • DO NOT use any formative test items for instruction • DO NOT review formative items with students after the formative test.

16. Test Security Guidelines: Formative Tests Prior to Testing • Reserve formative items for testing, not for instruction. • Use formative test item analysis to identify indicators that should be taught • Use one copy of the formative test to analyze misconceptions. • Teach indicators using curriculum materials. • Teach concepts.

17. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • DO actively monitor the testing session. • DO move around the room.

18. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • DO NOT coach or cue students in any way during test administration. • DO NOT use gestures or facial expressions to cue students in any way during test administration. • DO NOT respond to questions during testing that would help students to understand the question or aid them in responding to an item, or to encourage them to change a response.

19. Test Security: During Testing • Do NOT require the use of any particular strategy during the test. This means • Do NOT require the use of graphic organizers, • Do NOT require the use of scratch paper, • Do NOT require that students read test items before reading the passage

20. Test Security: ACCDs During Testing • DO deliver accommodations the way they are delivered during instruction

21. Test Security: Read-Aloud ACCDs During Testing • DO read-alouds from scripts, not from the screen. • DO allow students in groups during read-alouds to take the time they need on each item (i.e. Do not “pace” the test.) • DO not give clues through vocal inflections, pitch, stress, or pauses.

22. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • IN GENERAL: Adults should not intervene in a student’s test unless the student is violating testing protocol. • DO NOT distribute mints, gum, candy, or other sugary substances; use other stimuli; or administer rewards to reinforce particular test behaviors during or immediately before the test.

23. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • DO NOT conduct comprehensive reviews or drills of tested indicators the days of testing (Appropriate Testing Practices Fact Sheet 2009-2010)

24. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • If a student is using unauthorized material such as a cell phone or a calculator on a non-calculator portion of the test, answering questions randomly without reading the test item, copying from another student’s test, the test proctor may ask the student to stop the unauthorized behavior, and focus on his or her own test. • If the student fails to comply, the proctor should tell the student that an individual conference is required before the test continues. The proctor should stop (“END”) the test, advise the building test coordinator, and call Dr. Heiman.

25. Test Security Guidelines: During Testing • DO NOT require students • to use scratch paper, • to use manipulatives, • to show their work, • to use the online tools, • or to use any particular testing strategy • DO NOT record testing behaviors during the test for rewards after the test is over. Student awareness of the recording process constitutes an adult intervention during the test and a reinforcement of a demand that a student apply certain test strategies.

26. Test Security: At the End of the Test • The teacher may verify that all answer spaces have been filled in. • If an answer has been left blank, students may be directed to return to the test to complete the question (but only items in that particular test session). • Screen to make sure that all test questions have been answered before a student exits the test.

27. Test Security Guidelines: After Each Testing Session • School test coordinator • Collect and shred • student notes, • scratch paper, and • drawings at the end of each testing session

28. Test Security Guidelines: After Testing • DO NOT offer rewards for proficient performance that by exclusion unwittingly identify non-proficient students. (Violation of FERPA.)

29. Test Security: After Testing • DO NOT review or answer questions about item types on the state assessment, even though the test is finished. • DO NOT grade scratch paper.

30. Test Security Guidelines: After Testing--Turn-in and Check-in • Turn in paper test copies, read-aloud scripts and sign out/in registers to Dr. Heiman upon completion of test sessions. • Later on at Check-in, turn in copies of Student Editor Rosters with notations of disposition of tests for each student.

31. Test Security Guidelines: Training Materials—What’s Next? • Please present this Power Point to those of your staff who will administer or who have some responsibility for state assessments. • A copy of these Power Point slides is available at the USD 500 District Website (http://www.kckps.org/dera). • Click on the “Power Point Presentations” link. • Click on Test Security_USD500_2010 file and save the Power Point to your computer. • To print handouts, open the Power Point presentation, and go to “file,” “print”. In the “print what” box, use the arrow key to select “handouts.” Set “slides per page” to 3, and click on “ok”.

32. Test Security Guidelines: Training Materials—What’s Next? • Sign the blue “Test Security—Trainer-of-Trainer Presentation” IDP Point roster. • On the “Examiner Manual Request Form” list proctor names, grades, subjects, and test types. DERA will prepare a label for an Examiner Manual for each proctor.

33. Test Security Guidelines: Training Materials—What’s Next? 2009-2010 Examiner Manual Proctor Order FormDIRECTIONS; ELEM Fname Lname Grade; MIDDLE and HIGH SCHOOL Fname Lname Subj