Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 7 - Education K-12 › Part 109 - Student Assessment Handbook › Chapter 2 - Creating a District and School Test Security Plan › Section 7-109-2-E - Additional Procedures

Current through June 25, 2024
The School Test Security Plan must include the
				  following:
1. Student emergencies
				(bathroom, sudden illness).
2.
				Disruptions due to severe weather, fire, bomb threat, or any other form of
				emergency that would cause for an immediate evacuation of the
				facility.
3. Prohibitions against
				the possession and/or use of any electronic communication device, including
				cell phones and personal digital assistance devices during the administration
				of scheduled statewide assessments.
4. Use of appropriate calculators on MCT2
				(Grades 7 & 8) and SATP2 Algebra I tests. Beginning with the 20112012
				school year, all formulas, applications, and/or programs (including, but not
				limited to, Zoom Math/Zoom Algebra) must be disabled or removed from the
				calculators to be used by students during any state test. Detailed directions
				on how to configure calculators is outlined on the Office of Student Assessment
				website. The district test security plan should state explicitly how this
				policy will be implemented and who is responsible for disabling the calculators
				and who is responsible for verifying compliance. Exception to Policy. Students
				who participated in the SATP Algebra I test
prior
to
				20112012 school year are allowed to use graphing calculators with formulas,
				applications, and/or programs provided they are not tested in the same room as
				other Algebra I test testers who are not allowed to use calculators with
				formulas, applications, and/or programs. The district plan should state that
				these students will be segregated in different testing rooms. MDE published a
				guidance memo dated April 6, 2011, to all Superintendents and DTCs addressing
				this topic in detail.
5. Procedure
				used to ensure that all content relevant materials (maps, word walls, bulletin
				boards with curricular content, etc.) in testing areas have been covered or
				removed.
6. District monitoring of
				test administrators, proctors, students, and others involved in the testing
				process.
7. Plan/s for multiple
				test administrations (i.e. morning/afternoon, dates) and what procedures you
				will use to prevent students from discussing test items. If applicable, explain
				how you will prevent students from looking back at the section of the test
				taken on the previous day.
8.
				Procedure for online testing and procedures that address disruptions, i.e.,
				power outages, network problems, etc.
9. Procedures used to prepare, verify, and
				maintain seating charts for students during statewide assessments. Various
				schools have chosen different methods: alphabetical, pre-arranged to separate
				friends, placement of students at the front of the room based on IEP or special
				circumstances, etc. To facilitate the test process, generally, seating charts
				are prepared in advance and simply updated with annotations to reflect any
				student absences.
10. Districts may
				choose to dismiss students who finish early or allow them to read library books
				or other material not related to the content of the test. Address the procedure
				for implementing this process while being sensitive to avoid excessive
				disruptions to those students requiring additional time who are still
				working.
11. At the conclusion of
				testing, the coding of student information and a review of answer documents for
				completeness of student administrative data is correct and to ensure there are
				no stray marks is completed. Indicate the individual(s) responsible for
				completing these tasks; when will it be done and where will it be done in order
				to ensure proper test protocols are followed and that test materials are not
				compromised.
12. Include the
				testing schedule for the current school year. Districts may simply attach the
				state calendar located on the Office of Student Assessment's Website,
				www.mde.k12.ms.us/osa. [File Link Not Available]
13. If special accommodations are requested,
				(i.e. accommodation 24 and/or 25) you must include in your test security plan a
				description of procedures, addressing each of the following bullets located in
				School Test Security Plan, Section E-1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, and13 for each test
				administration.
14. Outline the
				procedure to ship scratch paper used during test administrations with secure
				test materials as outlined in Test Administrators Manuals.
Where applicable, describe the procedures used for the
				  following:
1. Conducting lunch,
				restroom and/or stretch breaks during or between tests.
2. Coding the demographic data for students
				in grades 3 and 4, if this task is completed by a teacher or teacher assistant.
Guidance from Appendix F on Additional
				  Procedures
1. Both a test
				administrator and a proctor are present and actively monitoring students during
				the entire test administration.
a. At least
				two people are present from the time that testing materials are distributed to
				the test administrator until all test materials have been returned to the
				secure area.
b. A seating chart is
				required for each room/site used for any statewide assessment; the seating
				chart must be signed and dated by the test administrator, proctor, and school
				test coordinator.
(Appendix F, Section IV,
				6)
2. Makeup
				testing is provided for students who are absent during the regularly scheduled
				test administration.
(Appendix F, Section IV, 12)
3. Tests are administered according to the
				standard procedures defined in the test administrator's manuals and related
				documents and according to the schedule published by the Office of Student
				Assessment.
(Appendix F, Section IV, 13)