Assessment 2005: An Overview Curriculum Council January 20, 2005

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Assessment 2005 An OverviewCurriculum
CouncilJanuary 20, 2005

• Martha Blanton, Education Specialist State
  Assessment and Student Evaluation
• Dr. Jennifer Holling, Education Specialist
  Bilingual/ESL

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Make-up Testing

• Only for grades and subjects included in AYP
• Grades 3-8 Reading and Mathematics
• Grade 10 English Language Arts and Mathematics
• No make-up testing
• Writing, Science, or Social Studies
• Grade 9
• Exit Level

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Make-up Testing

• New for 04-05
• Both first and second administrations for grade 3
  Reading and grade 5 Reading and Mathematics will
  be included in calculation of AYP
• Make-up testing added for second administrations
  of grade 3 Reading and grade 5 Reading and
  Mathematics
• Implementation of make-up testing remains local
  district decision

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Changes

• Grade 3 Reading test moved from March to February
• Grade 5 SSI begins
• Grade 5 Reading and Mathematics
• Grade 3 Reading
• TAKS April grades 3-10 and Exit and SDAAII
• Reading and Mathematics moved one week earlier in
  April
• Exit Level will have 4 retest opportunities
• February, April, July, October
• Summer Out-of-District Accelerated Instruction
  and Testing

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Special Eduation

• SDAA II
• Grades 9 and 10 Reading and Mathematics added
• Baseline and rebaseline gone
• ARD sets expected Achievement Level each time
• For Reading (grade 9) and ELA (grade 10), the
  Instructional Level of SDAA II dictates when
  student tests
• All field testing moved to January/February
  testing window
• LDAA
• LDAA results continue to be submitted on answer
  documents

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Online Testing Initiatives

• Algebra I End-of-Course assessment will be
  available online only available April 2005
• Grade 8 TAKS Online Comparability Study
• Campuses volunteer
• Only one content area tested online per school
  (Reading, Mathematics, or Social Studies)
• Results count
• Science field test
• Exit Level TAKS Online Comparability Study
• Campuses volunteer
• Additional testing opportunity for Exit Level
  TAKS
• Given in June 2005
• Campuses may nominate students entering grade 11
  to participate

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Common Errors

• Answer documents left inside test booklets
• Pencils other than 2 used
• Materials returned to Pearson with incorrect
  shipping label
• Grade 10 ELA Incorrectly gridding Make-Up Form
  bubble
• Spanish testers issued English answer documents,
  or vice versa

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Security and Confidentiality

• IEP Violations
• Wrong instructional level of SDAA II
• Wrong assessment (TAKS vs. SDAA II)
• Before testing accounting for test materials
• storage of materials
• unauthorized viewing
• During testing not reading script or not using
  manual
• unauthorized viewing
• indirect or direct assistance
• discussing test content or responses
• After testing unauthorized viewing
• discussing test content or responses
• accounting for all materials

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Security and Confidentiality

• Monitoring Errors
• Secure materials left unattended
• Unmonitored lunch or restroom breaks
• Testers take secure materials home
• Testers allowed to use cell phones, foreign
  language dictionaries

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2005 Training Modules

• Collaboration of TEA, TSNAP, and Pearson
• Purpose to provide uniform statewide training
  in test administration
• Six Modules
• Module 1Test Security and Confidential Integrity
• Module 2TAKS
• Module 3SDAAII
• Module 4TELPAS
• Module 5Return Materials Packaging for Campus
  Coordinators
• Module6LAT
• Posted at www.tsnap.com

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TELPAS

• Only includes RPTE and TOP no longer includes
  TAKS or TAAS
• RPTE will be given to all students coded in PEIMS
  as LEP, regardless of previous scores or parental
  denial of services
• RPTE will include Advanced High level

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TELPAS

• There will be one TELPAS testing window for RPTE
  and TOP March 21 - April 8 district choose the
  order of administration of RPTE and TOP
• There will be one TELPAS answer document
• For TOP writing scores, schools will collect
  writing samples for a portfolio
• 3 5 samples beginning in February
• Must be kept in students permanent record for 2
  years

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LAT

• Who? LEP students who qualify for a LEP
  exemption in Mathematics
• Only students in grades 3-8 and 10, grades
  that are included in AYP calculation
• What? Regular or live TAKS and SDAA II
  Mathematics exams administered with
  linguistic accommodation

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LAT

• Where? May require individual or small group
  test administration
• When? Either on regular TAKS or SDAA II
  Mathematics test dates or during the
  remainder of that week
• Why? In order to help meet AYP

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LAT

• How it will help?
• All LAT testers will count for participation
• All LAT testers in their 2nd or 3rd year in US
  schools will count for performance
• All LAT testers in their 1st year in US schools
  will only count for participation performance
  will not count for or against schools
• Grade 5 students who fail under LAT testing will
  not be subject to SSI requirements
• LAT scores will not count for state
  accountability

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Questions