Summer School End of Course Exams

Claudine SanchezLori Boylan

Shayne KendallRose-Ann McKernan

End of Course Exams

• Only graduation exit exams will be administered during the first and second sessions• Algebra I and II• English 11 and 12 Reading (for students who have not yet passed SBA)• Social Studies

• NM History• US History• World History• Economics• Government

• Writing – we are going to get a count of students to see if we need to administer this assessment

Test Security – The Dos

• We must abide by all the standard test security requirements• Everyone must sign the non-disclosure form at the end of this training• The non-disclosure form affirms that you:• attended test security training, • will actively proctor your students while they are testing • will administer the test according to the directions provided by PED

Active Proctoring

• Please make sure anything you have posted in the room that addresses instructional concepts is either down or covered.• No cell phones during testing – students may give them to you or put

them in their back packs.• Personal calculators are permissible if the teacher clears the

calculator before and after the testing.• Students must be supervised at all times during testing – restroom

breaks are permitted if students are escorted to the restroom and enter one student at a time. • Tests must be secure at all times – with you or in a locked room.

Test Security – The Don’ts

• School staff may: • not access the test before the test administration• not discuss the test with students, other teachers, or others in general

• This refers to not discussing the test items in particular • you are free to make non-specific comments

• (yes, you can tell someone the test is full of mistakes)• (No, you cannot tell them which items had mistakes)

Testing Dates

First session • Final list of students from SIS will be sent 6/20• Order tests by 6/23• Test administration is 6/30 and 7/1• Last date for a student/parent to opt out is June 23Second Session• Final list of students from SIS will be sent 7/16• Order tests by 7/17• Test administration is 7/24-25• Last day to opt out is 7/17

Who Will Test

• Any student who is taking a course in the listed areas will take the end of course tests • Unless the student has already passed the required end of course exam in

writing or social studies.Where do the scores go?• First session will be late but will be available in Data Director as soon as it is

up and running• Second session scores will be available in Data Director immediately upon

scanning them.• As we understand now, we must submit a STARS report to PED at the end of

Summer School; these scores will be attached to teachers’ TeachScape files

Testing Materials

• Testing booklets will be provided about just before the testing window.• Teachers will be expected to sign out test booklets and account for these

at all times.• Student answer documents will be printed at Instructional Accountability

because Data Director is down.• Students will answer on standard answer document (bubble sheets).• Students who need to write in the booklet may do so, but please

transcribe their answers to an answer document for scoring.• For second session, students may test on-line if the technology is

available to you; if not, test on paper.

Scoring

• For the first session, Data Director will be down for maintenance so tests will be scanned as soon as the system is available.• If we administer the writing, we will offer stipends to teachers who

are interested in scoring at the end of each session of summer school.• Second Session, Data Director will be up and running and all answer

documents except writing may be scanned and scored at the site.• Assessment will offer training to school staff for scanning and on line

testing.

Returning materials

• Each teacher must return their testing materials to the designated person at their site immediately after testing.• Teachers will be expected to sign in and account for all test mateirals

including unused answer documents as well as all test booklets.• Testing Services will pick up the scorable materials and the extra

materials the last day of each summer session.

Questions

• If you have questions about materials you can call • Ann Marie Lesley at Testing Services Center• 848-8752• Lesley@aps.edu

• Questions about who to test or other questions• Rose-Ann McKernan• 872-6815• mckernan@aps.edu