May STAAR Testing
Getting ready for May testing
Dictionaries
Make sure your campus has enough dictionaries for May testing. All students taking a reading test will need access to a dictionary (minimum of 1-5 ratio). Make sure your campus has a process in place to ensure all testing rooms have a dictionary.
Dictionaries for ESL Students
Check with your AP over ESL to see that your campus has ESL dictionaries for all ESL students who will require one for testing. If your campus needs a specific dictionary, please contact Melissa Gassman ASAP. If we need to order dictionaries, we need to do that quickly.
Accommodations
Get with ESL, sped, RtI, and 504 Coordinators (if you are not the coordinator) to review May testing accommodations. You want to compare your accommodations to TestHound for accuracy. If your campus finds accommodations in SuccessEd or Ellevation that are not showing up properly in TestHound, please let me know. I will look into the issue to see what is happening.
Oral Administration and Other Designated Supports
All Test Administrators (including break givers who will be going into an OA room) must receive OA training by campus CTC. Have a sign-in sheet for the training. Print a copy of the OA manual any give a copy to all OA test administrators and OA break givers. Once TAs have been trained, they will sign and date the bottom of their oath.
Make sure you also train your TAs for any other designated supports that your students use on a test. If the DS requires that a TA looks in a test booklet, they must also sign the bottom on the oath.
Calculators for Secondary Testing
- Make sure you have enough calculators for May testing.
- Make sure you tell your staff that chromebook carts will be locked down for algebra 1 testing and math 8 retesting. I am not sure how many carts this will involve, but give teachers who will not have access to carts on testing days advance notice. Otherwise you might have some unhappy teachers!
- Let your ITS know as least 1 week in advance (more if possible) the rooms that will be used for algebra EOC and retesting, so they get chromebooks ready for testing day.