PARCC Pilot: Test Administrator Training

1. PARCC Pilot: Test Administrator Training

2. Overview of PARCC Assessments

3. Why CMAS PARCC? • Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the Colorado Academic Standards (CAS) • The expectations of what students need to know. • Measures critical skills and knowledge our students need

4. PARCC Consortia

5. Overview of PARCC Assessments • PARCC replaces TCAP in spring 2015 • English Language Arts: • Grades 3-11 • Math: • Grades 3-11 • Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra II • Will provide evidence of college and career readiness based on the assessments in 11th grade

6. Test Structure • Performance-Based Assessment (PBA): • Administered in March • English language arts/Literacy: Writing effectively when analyzing text • Math: Problem solving and application AND • End-of-Year Assessment (EOY): • Administered April/May • Acquired skills and knowledge by answering machine-scorable questions

7. What is a “Standardized” Assessment? • All students have the same test content, resources, directions, testing conditions, and scoring procedures. • A score obtained by one student in one part of Colorado (in the case with PARCC – across the consortia) will mean the same as the same score obtained by another student in a different part of the state and consortia.

8. Timeline and Pilot

9. PARCC Assessments: Timeline • Spring 2014: • March: TCAP reading, writing and math in all schools grades 3-10 • March/May: PARCC pilot (selected schools) for English language arts and/or math • Spring 2015 • March/April: Performance-based • Grades 3 – 11: English language arts • Grades 3 – 11: Math • April/May: End-of-Year • Grades 3 – 11: English language arts • Grades 3 – 11: Math

10. Purpose of the Pilot • Main Purposes: • Examine the quality of items so that PARCC can build assessment forms for the 14-15 school year; • Pilot assessment administration procedures, including technology readiness; and • Give schools and districts the opportunity to experience the administration of PARCC assessments • Purpose is NOT to assess student achievement. Schools will NOT receive student scores. • Take it SERIOUSLY.

11. PARCC Pilot Schools: PBA

12. PARCC Pilot Schools: EOY

13. PARCC Pilot Schedule and Key Dates

14. Performance-Based Schedule • March 24 – 28 • East (ELA – 10th grade) 3/26 • Noel Community Arts (ELA – 6th grade) • South (ELA – 11th grade) • West Leadership (ELA – 9th grade) • March 31 – April 4: Spring Break! No Testing! • April 7 – 11 • Cesar Chavez (ELA – 6th grade) • Denver Green (Math – 6th grade) • DSST: GVR (ELA – 9th grade) • Garden Place (Math – 3rd grade) • University Park (ELA – 3rd grade)

15. PearsonAccess (Test Management App)

16. PearsonAccess: Overview • PearsonAccess is the test management system for PARCC pilot. • You can perform the following test-related duties: • Review sample items • Add, delete, and change student data, including requesting accommodations • Monitor test sessions • Training modules and other resources • Recommendation: Review the PearsonAccess training module, specifically “Monitoring Test Sessions” portion.

17. PearsonAccess www.pearsonaccess.com Select: PARCC

18. Accessing: Practice Items and Tutorials Access Sample Items

19. PARCC Sample Items

20. Accessing Pearson Training Modules Step 1: From PARCC Home Screen, click on “Support” tab Step 2: Click on “Training” Step 3: Click on “Training Modules”. Step 4: It will take you to a different site, where you have to enter your e-mail address. Step 5: Click on “Test Administration” Step 6: Click on “Computer-based Testing Test Administration” OR Go directly to the website and skip steps 1-4. https://parcc.tms.pearson.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2f

21. Management System

22. TestNav8 (Test Delivery App)

23. TestNav8: Overview • TestNav 8 is Pearson’s newest test delivery platform for online testing. • It can be run on Macs, PCs, Chromebooks and iPads. • Java requirements (consult with your STR)

25. Accommodations

26. Types of Accessibility Features and Accommodations

27. Accessibility Features for ALL Students

28. Accessibility Features for ALL Students: Cont …

29. Accessibility Features for ALL Students: Cont …

30. Accommodations • Must be based on an individual need documented in the student’s approved IEP, 504, or English learner plan • A master list of all students and their accommodations must be maintained by the SAL. These will need to be recorded in PearsonAccess. Please include students using text-to-speech. • Accommodations are available for computer-based and paper-based administration. • Paper-based form is itself intended to be an accommodated form

31. Accommodations that Must be Selected during the Test Registration Process for Students with Disabilities

32. Accommodations that Must be Selected during the Test Registration Process for English language learners

33. Paper-Pencil vs Computer-Based • Use of paper-based assessments are expected only to be available to students who: • Have a neurological disorder, a condition that causes seizures, or another health condition that prevents the student from accessing the computer • Need a braille form with tactile graphs • Have an IEP or 504 plan that requires assistive technology, such as speech-to-text or 504 plan that may not be compatible with TestNav8 • Will provide oral or written responses in a language other than English or Spanish

34. Modifications = Misadministration • Requiring a student to be assessed on less content matter than other students because he has been taught less material • Reducing the scope of assessments so a student needs to complete only a limited number of problems or items • Modifying the complexity of assessments to make them easier • Giving hints, clues, or other coaching that directs the student to correct responses on assignments and tests • Adults defining vocabulary on the test or explaining test items • Allowing the student to complete an assessment of English language arts in a language other than English • Using dictionaries that provide definitions (rather than acceptable word-to-word dual-language dictionary)

35. Ethical RESPONSIBILITIES

36. Ethical Responsibilities • I understand that the purpose of the PARCC pilot is to measure at what level a student is meeting the Colorado Academic Standards at their grade level. • I understand my role in standardized testing is to allow students to work independently without my help. • I understand that I must follow the rules of standardization in order for the students that I am proctoring to receive a score. • I understand that the district analyzes unusual PARCC pilot scores trends as well as erasure analysis to ensure that all DPS test scores are valid. • I understand that I must perform my professional responsibilities with honesty, integrity, due care, and fairness.

37. Ethical Practices and PARCC Pilot • Teach to the standards, not the test • Never use items from test books for test preparation • Never share or alter student responses • Do not coach or clue students during test administration • Provide all approved accommodations • In order to maintain standardization, test administrators must make sure that their students have the same PARCC pilot testing experience as all of the other students who are taking the same exam.

38. BEFORE testing Tasks

39. Before Testing:PearsonAccess 1. Review PearsonAccess (Test Management System) Training Modules and Practice Items • Review PearsonAccess (recommended) • Review Practice Items (recommended)

40. 2. Review Our Testing Schedule Know when you will be testing, the room, and your students Before Testing:Test Scheduling

41. Guidelines for Scheduling Sessions For each test session, plan for a MINIMUM of 85-145 minutes. Recommendation: Given that this is the first year, plan for extra time.

42. Grade 3: English Language Arts/Literacy Every student must be provided with the FULL amount of Session Time. For this year, additional time is available to ALL students if some are still diligently working. Schools should plan on the Total Time for testing.

43. Guidelines for Testing Time Cont … Test sections can only be administered to students in consecutive order One grade level and one content area at a time A new session cannot be started until ALL students in session are finished Before Testing:Test Scheduling Cont …

44. 3. Review Test Administration Logistics Plan Introduce an alternate SAL, if applicable Introduce STR and Alt STR, if applicable Identify all students participating, including features and accommodations needed Be authorized as Test Administrators Inform students and parents about the PARCC pilot assessments Meet with students to review practice test items, testing day policies and expectations Review policy for what students do after they are done with testing Review designated appropriate testing spaces Before Testing:Logistics Plan

45. Student-to-Test Administrator ratio must not exceed 25 to 1 (+ 1 extra and 1 for test administrator) Students should not be able to see each other’s work from a normal testing position. Consider the following seating configurations to maintain test security: Seat students in every other seat (useful in a computer lab setup) Arrange monitors back-to-back Seat students back-to-back Seat students in a semicircle (useful for schools using laptops) Seat students in a widely spaced rows or in every other row (appropriate for a classroom setup) Dividing screens or other privacy materials may be used if students cannot be placed far enough away from each other. Before Testing: Room Configuration

46. Test Administrator must be able to actively monitor the space within the testing environment. Test Administrators should be in a position to see students’ eyes, not screens Recommendations: Group students separately who will use Session Time vs those who will need extended time. Before Testing: Room Configuration Cont…

47. 4. Review Test Security Policies Security is ensuring that there is no reproduction of any test materials. This includes memorization, photocopying, note taking, photographing, scanning, encoding, text messaging, sign language, Morse code, blogging or using other forms of social networking to share information. DoNOTmake copies of any portion of the TCAP exams. Do NOT copy, by any means, any student work that results from this assessment. DoNOTlook at the test prior to testing and prep students on what will be tested. (Released items are okay to share with students) Do NOTshare student’s responses with anyone verbally, through the internet, or in written format. Do NOT attempt to score a student’s test before returning the materials. Before Testing:Test Security

48. Security Checklist: Test Coordinators must maintain a log of secure materials. You may use the Optional Secure Materials Tracking Formor your own equivalent log to track secure materials. Schools also need a log to account for collection and destruction of Mathematics Reference Sheets written on by students as well as for scratch paper written on by students. Test Administrators are not to have extended access (>15 minutes) to test materials before or after administration. Test Administrators must document the return of all secure test materials to the SAL immediately after testing. Before Testing:Test Security Cont …

49. Schools will not receive a shipment from the vendor as there will be no test booklets or answer documents. Test Coordinators must print the following secure materials through PearsonAccess, which can be printed up to one week prior to testing: Student Authorization Tickets.Each test session will have a unique Test Code for each student that will be printed on Student Authorization Tickets. Students will be prompted to enter the Test Code to access the test via TestNav (the browser-based application used to administer PARCC tests). Seal Codes.Seal Codes are four-digit codes used to lock test sessions so that students cannot go ahead to the next session or go back to a previous session that has already been completed. Seal codes are the electronic equivalents of the adhesive tabs that are used to seal sections of paper test booklets. Before Testing:Secure Materials Handling

50. Before Testing:Student Authorization Ticket https://co.testnav.com Username: Test Code: