Inappropriate Test Security Activities Can Occur:

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Inappropriate Test Security Activities Can
Occur
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Activity OneAppropriate and Inappropriate
Teaching to the TestPencil Paper Administration

• Script
• It is important that classroom teachers prepare
  students to take state-mandated tests, and there
  are many valid ways to do that important work.
  However, at some point, legitimate teaching
  activities to prepare students to take
  state-mandated tests can cross a line into
  inappropriate teaching of the test. The
  following seven points help to define a continuum
  of these appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
  Within your group, discuss the seven points and
  whether you feel that each one would be an
  ethical or unethical activity. Within your
  group, rank the seven points from most ethical
  to most unethical.

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Activity OneAppropriate and Inappropriate
Teaching to the TestPencil Paper Administration

• Seven Teaching Activities
• Instruction on exactly matched objectives where
  practice or instruction uses the format of the
  test items.
• Practice or instruction on the test itself.
• General instruction on district objectives
  without referring to the objectives that the
  state tests measure.
• Teaching test-taking skills.
• Practice or instruction on a published, parallel
  form of the same test.
• Instruction based on objectives that exactly
  match those on the test to be administered to the
  students.
• Instruction on objectives chosen by looking at
  objectives that several state tests measure.

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Activity OneAppropriate and Inappropriate
Teaching to the TestPencil Paper Administration

• Answer Key
• Most Ethical to Most Unethical
• 3, 4, 7, 6, 1, 5, 2
• Discuss within your group how the specific
  sub-sections 7.2, 7.4.2, 7.4.4, 7.5. 7.5.1, 7.6,
  and the protocol within 7.7 would apply to the
  seven teaching activities provided within this
  activity.
• 126-14-7 Test Security

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Inappropriate Testing Activities

• During Test Administration Issues

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Inappropriate Testing Activities

• Scrap Paper Scheme---pupils take the test on
  scrap paper first, then that is corrected, and
  those answers are put on the bubble sheets.
• Class Project Scheme--- group format with
  students calling out answers to items. Students
  in the group then agree on the right answer and
  fill in the bubble.
• Examiners giving answers to students
• Examiners erasing wrong answers
• Examiners filling in blank answers
• Examiners tapping students on the shoulder to
  indicate a wrong answer
• Examiners encouraging students to change answers
• Principals coaching students on examinations
• Materials on student desks during testing

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Scenario One

• Ms. Jones, a first year teacher, walks into Mr.
  Smiths classroom during state testing to ask a
  question. She observes Mr. Smith moving around
  the room, looking at students test booklets and
  answer sheets, and then tapping certain students
  on the shoulder. She notes that the student then
  looks at his last answer, re-reads the question,
  and then erases his answer choice and selects a
  new one.
• What should Ms. Jones do? How should this
  situation be handled?

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Scenario Two

• Principal Kelley receives his schools copies of
  the state tests. While these tests are stored in
  a secure area within the school, Mr. Kelley makes
  sure that all tests are available for teachers to
  preview four days prior to test administration.
  Mr. Kelley reminds the teachers that it is
  vitally important that students score as well as
  possible on these state tests. He promises pizza
  parties and various prizes for the teachers whose
  classes score highest on the tests.
• What are your thoughts/reactions to Principal
  Kelleys actions? How should this situation be
  handled?

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Scenario Three

• Mrs. Bergman, a veteran teacher, was able to
  preview the state tests three days prior to the
  testing window. She noted specific test items
  related to content on which she realized her
  students were weak. She decided to crash teach
  that content over the next two days so that her
  students would be able to know and correctly
  answer those test items. Ms. Flores had been in
  Mrs. Bergmans classroom over the two days prior
  to testing and had seen what Mrs. B. had been
  teaching. Ms. Flores also noted that several
  test items related to that content.
• What should Ms. Flores do? How should this
  situation be handled?

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Testing Code of Ethics