CBA Assessments in Eduphoria Aware http://bit.ly/NEISDtestbank

Test Authoring Updates Demo Site: From now until the completion of the test authoring project, customers can go to: https://AwareTest.schoolobjects.com For a user with teacher access: username teachereddy@aware.net Password: newtest123 For a user with campus-level access: username: principaleddy@aware.net password: newtest123

District Test Banks STAAR Released Items are loaded into Eduphoria Aware Test Banks STAAR Test Maker was purchased and an additional 65,000+ items have been added: Math: Grades 1-8, Algebra I, Geometry, and ELA III Reading: Grades 1-8, English I, English II, and English III Science: Grades 3-8, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Social Studies: Grades 3-8, World Geography, World History, and US History Transdapted Spanish: 1-5 ELAR & Math, 3-5 Science and Social Studies Local Bank Questions will be created by district instructional staff and shared with teachers

Creating a Test From the Assessments tab in Aware, select Create a New Test

For Today Select Create a new blank test Then click Next

Test Details Type the Title for your test The Naming Convention for CBA will be as follows Content Area Grade Abbreviation or Course and Description“CBA” Year Social Studies Gr 08 American Revolution CBA 2018 https://www.neisd.net/cms/lib/TX02215002/Centricity/Domain/272/Aware/Naming-Conventions-Aware.pdf

Test Details Select the Grade Level for your test Select the Start Date and End Date for your test current date of creation through Dec. 21 For Test Type select Mini/Unit/Other Assessments (Optional) for your test Click Next https://www.neisd.net/cms/lib/TX02215002/Centricity/Domain/272/Aware/Naming-Conventions-Aware.pdf

Select Campuses Select Campuses that might choose to take the CBA. Click Next

Select a Course Your course selection will determine the standards you can assign to each question If you are a district level administrator, you will be asked to select campus before getting to this screen Use the folder structure to drill down to the grade level and course you are creating the test for. Then click Next

Finishing Your Test At this point, you are finished setting up your test, but not building it. At this point, we will be training based on the new TEST AUTHORING UPDATES When logged into your district account, your options will look different until the system is updated.

Left Side Navigation has replaced the Tabs Questions can be added or edited in the workspace

General Information To Edit the General Information, click the pencil icon Based on the information you entered on the previous screens, the General Information will be populated for you. Do we need to establish the performance levels for teachers? It is always a good idea to add test instructions. These will appear on page two of the test.

Adding Questions to your Test Allows teachers to create new test questions for their tests. Allows teachers to select a standard and view and select all of the questions from the item bank associated with that standard.

CLICK Select Standard Select Questions Item Bank Questions It is as easy as CLICK Select Standard Select Questions

Item Bank Features Change Standard Filter Items Select Item(s) Scroll through questions Keyword Search Question Type Question Banks Complexity Language

Questions from the Item Bank can be edited after they are added to the test

Question Editing Tools When editing a question, you can change the standard, add a secondary standard (dual coding), change the complexity, weight a standard, or toggle between multiple choice (one correct answer) or selection (more than one correct)

Question Editing Tools: Selected Response You have a variety of text editing tools to edit the question stems and answer choices with. Answer choices can be moved up or down using the arrows

Question Editing Tools: Constructed Response You must select the scoring range so that you can assign a score to the student. If you check the teacher response box, it will place a “Teacher Use Only” grid on the answer document that teachers will bubble for scanning. If you do not check the box, it will put space for the student to respond and capture an image of their response. Teachers will need to enter student scores for these items after scanning.

Question Editing Tools: Numeric Response You can choose between floating or fixed grids and allow for negative values.

Tips and notes for writing test items The current version does not have a spell check feature (This may be something they are working on), so it may be a good idea to paste the item into a document to check the spelling before saving it. Right click pasting into a question is not supported in some browsers, you may need to use CTR+V. While images can be pasted into questions, it is best if you save them and then upload them into the question using the picture editing tool. Use the “Resource” question types to add information or instructions used across multiple questions.

Question View Updates Planned updates for the question view include: add audio/video files add math type adjust options for numerical and constructed response items Add/edit standards and reporting categories to items

Layout View In this view, you will see how each question is displayed on the page. You have the ability to edit some of the page properties when you mouse over each question. More features are expected in the near future. This allows you to adjust the spacing after the question that is highlighted. This allows you to put in a page break after a question This allows you to select if you want the question set up in a two column format or across the entire page.

Key View This view allows you to see the test key and quickly edit the correct response, item weight, primary standard, and secondary standard.

Admin View New view that combines all of the settings from the old Campuses, Students, and Administration tabs into one place

Administering an Assessment To view and print Answer Documents, teachers will need to go to their Analyze Tab on the left side of the screen. There should be a message that says Test Available. Clicking the Test Available will display a list of tests the teacher has created or has been shared with the teacher.

Administering an Assessment Select the test you you are planning to administer

Administering an Assessment Check the boxes next to the classes you want the test to be administered for. Then select how you plan to administer the test.

Scanning a Test Printer Driver (can be downloaded through Application Catalog- Formerly Software Center) Plain Paper Scanner (can be downloaded through Application Catalog- Formerly Software Center) Brother DCP-L5650DN