2015 TELPAS Administration Procedures Training

This presentation does not replace the reading of the TELPAS Rater Manual.

TELPAS Overview

TELPAS

The Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) fulfills federal requirements for assessing the English language proficiency of English language learners (ELLs) in kindergarten through grade 12 in four language domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

• Four English language proficiency levels

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High

• TELPAS results are used in:

• Accountability indicators and

• Performance-based monitoring

Test Security and Confidentiality

Test Security and Confidentiality Requirements

Each person participating in TELPAS is required to maintain and preserve the security and confidentiality of all test material and student data, and must also handle this information in strict accordance with the instructions contained in the TELPAS manual.

Test Security

• Test security involves accounting for all secure materials and the confidential student information before, during, and after each test administration.

• This includes placing confidential documentation, such as rating rosters that contain student data, in limited-access locked storage.

Confidentiality Requirements

• Maintaining the confidentiality of the TELPAS program involves protecting the contents of all online assessments and student performance documentation.

Security and Confidentiality

• Assessment procedures must be followed exactly so all individuals eligible for testing are assessed in a uniform manner.

• All test materials must be handled in strict accordance with the instructions contained in the TELPAS manual.

• Each person with access to test materials must maintain and preserve the security and confidentiality of the testing program.

• Each person with access to student information should maintain and preserve the confidentiality of this information.

Security and Confidentiality

• All testing personnel must be trained.

• All testing personnel must sign an oath before handling or viewing secure test materials or confidential information or administering a test.

• All assessments must be administered in strict accordance with the instructions contained in the test administration materials.

Security and Confidentiality

• No person may view, reveal, or discuss the contents of a secure assessment instrument or answer verbally or nonverbally any question that relates to the content of a test before, during, or after a test administration.

• All test content is considered secure until the tests are released to the public.

• Permission to view the online assessment MUST first be obtained from TEA.

Security and Confidentiality

• No person may review or discuss student responses during or after a test administration.

• No person may change or amend any response recorded by a student or instruct a student to do so.

• No person may duplicate, print, record, write notes about, or capture any portion of a secure assessment.

• Only students may respond to test questions.

Penalties for Prohibited Conduct

• Any person who violates, assists in the violation of, or solicits another to violate or assist in the violation of test security or confidentiality, and any person who fails to report such a violation, may be penalized through

• Placement of restrictions on the issuance, renewal, or holding of a Texas educator certificate, either indefinitely or for a set term;

• Issuance of an inscribed or non-inscribed reprimand;

• Suspension of a Texas educator certificate for a set term; or

• Revocation or cancellation of a Texas educator certificate without opportunity for reapplication for a set term or permanently.

• Release of disclosure of confidential test content could result in criminal prosecution.

• May also result in the invalidation of students’ assessment

Security Oaths

• ALL campus personnel who participate in state-mandated testing and/or handle or view secure test materials or confidential information must meet the eligibility requirements and be trained and sign a security oath.

• Any person who has more than one testing role must receive appropriate training and sign a security oath for each role.

• Each oath must be read and completed after training and before handling or viewing any secure test materials or confidential information.

• Return completed oath to campus test coordinator.

Testing Irregularities

• Incidents resulting in a deviation from documented testing procedures are considered testing irregularities.

• Each person participating in the testing program is directly responsible for reporting immediately to the campus test coordinator any violation or suspected violation of test security or confidentiality. If not reported, could result in sanctions.

• The TELPAS Rater Manual provides examples of the different types of testing irregularities that may occur during this administration.

• Sharing answers to the online calibration activities is a serious irregularity.

Testing Irregularities• ALL testing irregularities are processed the same:

• Must be reported to campus test coordinator immediately

• If unsure, it is best to report.

• Documentation form completed before the end of the school day

• Explain exactly what happened; be detailed and concise

• Complete the form; ensure all information is completed

• Sign the form; your signature is required

• Turn in the completed, signed form to your campus test coordinator the same day the irregularity occurred

Holistic Rating Training Requirements

Holistic Rating Training Requirements

• The following link will take you to a Prezi presentation that describes the training requirements and procedures.

• Prezi Presentation

Grade 2-12 Writing Collections

Grades 2-12 Writing Collections

• The following link will take you to a Pictochart presentation that describes the procedures for the collecting and assembling the writing collections.

Please not, after clicking on the link, click on the presentation mode button

at the top right of the screen.

• Piktochart

2015 TELPAS Timeline

• The completion dates on the following slides MUST be adhered to.

• IMPORTANT: Campuses may set completion dates earlier than the ones you will see in this slide show. Campus Test Coordinators will inform you of dates that may be different.

• If the circled task is not completed by the completion date, you may be required to meet with the district test coordinator at the district office to complete the task.

2015 January

TELPAS Online Basic Training course available in Texas TrainingCenter1/26/2015

TELPAS Administrative Procedures Training (complete1/23/2015

TELPAS Assembling and Verifying Grades 2-12 Writing Collections online course available 1/12/2015

2015 February

Begin collecting writing samples for TELPAS Writing Collections (Grades 2-12)

2/16/2015

TELPAS Online Calibration (sets 1 and 2) are available in Texas TrainingCenter for all raters

2/16/2015

Assembling and Verifying Online Course completed by all verifiers

2/13/2015

TELPAS Online Basic Training course completed by all raters2/13/2015

All raters have completed/attempted the first two sets of calibration activities2/24/2015

2015 March

TELPAS grades 2-12 Writing Collections have been rated by the student's rater

3/30/2015

TELPAS grades 2-12 Wrting Collections have been verified and returned to rater

3/25/2015

TELPAS grades 2-12 Writing Collections provided to verifier

3/10/2015

TELPAS assessment window begins

3/16/2015

All raters have completed their calibration activities3/6/2015

2014 Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

District assessment office verifies TELPAS data in TAMS

4/9/2015

Campus delivers completed TELPAS rating rosters to district assessment office

4/8/2015

Campus verifies TELPAS data in TAMS

4/8/2015

All online TELPAS Reading assessments complete

4/7/2015

Student TELPAS ratings entered into TAMS

4/7/2015

Campus principals review and sign all TELPAS rating rosters

4/6/2015

TELPAS rating rosters have been completed and delivered to campus principals

4/3/2015

Raters have collaborated with teachers concerning the ratings being assigned

4/1/2015

TELPAS grades 2-12 Writing Collections have been rated by the second rater

4/1/2015