Vista SBAC Update
Resources for Successful SBAC Testing!
Preparing for SBAC Administration
- Testing Schedule
- SBAC Training
- Directions for Administration (also shared with you in hardcopy at the SBAC Training).
The Directions for Administration has the actual (and necessary) Test Administrator script, as well as step by step directions for setting up the test.
Setting Up the Testing Environment
Before you administer a test session, please make sure you take some time to set up the testing environment.
- Arrange student desks in rows and set up privacy boards (if available) so that students cannot see each other's work.
- Take down or cover all instructional materials (posters, vocabulary charts, etc.)
- Post “TESTING IN PROGRESS—DO NOT DISTURB” signs outside of the testing room.
- Make sure that students do not have access to their cellphones (or any other personal device).
- Make sure each testing device or workstation has headphones.
- Launch secure browsers on all testing devices before students sit down to test.
- Make sure you have each student's login information (SSID and full name).
Administering a Test Session
The TA must create a test session before students can log on to the Student Testing Site. When a TA creates a test session, a unique Session ID is randomly generated. As Test Administrator you will be responsible for ensuring that your students enter the correct session ID, correctly enter their SSID and name, select the correct assessment, and that each student's selected test is approved through the Test Administrator Interface.
- Session ID: You will post this on your board.
- Test Selection Table: You will be responsible for enabling the correct Summative Assessment here.
- Pending Approvals Notification and Preview table: After students have entered the Session ID and their SSIDs, you will need to approve their selection of test here.
- Tests In Your Test Session table: This is where you will monitor student progress through the test.
- Log Out Button
A few more important features...
Stop Session Button: When your session has ended you will stop the session here.
Basic Test Rules
- Students must answer all test items on a page before going to the next page. Some pages contain multiple items. Students may need to use scroll bars to view all content on a page.
- Students may mark (flag) items for review and use the Questions drop-down list to easily return to those items, provided the test has not been paused for more than 20 minutes.
- Students may review previously answered items and change their answers only if the test has not been paused for more than 20 minutes.
- For tests that contain multiple segments, students may not return to a segment after it has been completed.
Performance Task and Classroom Activity Administration
Recorded information should not be available when students participate in the PT. When the PT is being administered, content from the Classroom Activity should not be available (i.e., do not put any content from the Classroom Activity on the board, in handouts, etc.).
Students may take notes during the Classroom Activity, but the notes may not be used during the PT. Notes must be collected before proceeding to the PT and stored in a secure location until securely shredded.
There should be no more than a three-day lapse between the Classroom Activity and the PT administration. Inadvertently administering the PT before or without the Classroom Activity constitutes a testing irregularity and is not eligible for any appeal if students are administered the PT without the Classroom Activity.
The Classroom Activity is nonsecure; however, it should not be supplemented with any other content that the administrator may think is helpful. Supplementing the Classroom Activity may detract from the intended purpose of the Classroom Activity and is not advised.
Be sure to consider the appropriate accommodations that should be provided to students in the class that would normally be provided during instruction.