1. ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR GRADE 3 PROMOTION (AAGTP)
Summer Screencast Training Session
Program Guide:

2. What is the Alternative Assessment for Grade 3 Promotion?
An assessment that complies with the established criteria of the Florida’s public school student progression law.
Students must demonstrate reading proficiency as required by Section , Florida Statute.
Students may take the assessment only one time during each school year.
Offered the last week of summer school
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3. Students To Be Tested
Students who did not meet any of the “good cause” criteria for promotion.
All retained Grade 3 students who attend summer school will participate in the AAGTP.
Students from schools that are not opened for the summer may attend summer school and take the AAGTP at a host site.
Eligible Grade 3 students who do not attend summer school can also participate in the AAGTP.
Schools open for the summer will be provided with a list of eligible students from host and feeder schools.
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4. Schedule of Activities
June 12-23: View screencast training for test chairpersons.
June 23: Complete the online Screencast Verification Form at
July 17-18: Delivery of AAGTP materials to schools.
July 27: Administration of the AAGTP to eligible Grade 3 students.
July 28: Make-up administration for AAGTP, as necessary.
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5. Schedule of Activities, Cont’d
July 31-Aug 1: Schools hand deliver all “To Be Scored” and “Not To Be Scored” materials, and District Coordinator envelope to TDC by 3:30 p.m.
Fax written account of any security issue to SAET at
August 7: (Tentative) schools pick up School Listings of Student Results at ITS.
August Individual Student Reports sent to schools via Comet Deliver Services.
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6. Test MAY NEVER be read to students
Accommodations
Accommodations must be provided to:
English Language Learners (ELLs), Levels 1-4
Students with disabilities (SWD) who have current IEPs
Students with current Section 504 plans
Must code #9 for “accommodations” used on ID Header Sheet
Test MAY NEVER be read to students
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7. Accommodations English Language Learners (ELL)
Flexible Setting
Flexible Scheduling
Assistance in Heritage Language
Dictionary
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8. Accommodations Students with Disabilities and Section 504
Flexible Setting
Flexible Scheduling
Recording of Answers
Flexible Presentation
Revised Format (call TDC to request)
Test may never be read
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9. Receiving and Preparing Materials for Testing
Stanford Achievement Test, 10th Edition, Primary 3 will be administered as the AAGTP in Summer 2017.
Verify counts of testing materials received using the packing list located in Box #1.
Report missing materials immediately to TDC at
Contact TDC for additional materials, if needed.
Securely store all test materials.
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10. Testing Materials Test Booklet ID Header Sheet
Every student tested will have a set of test materials: (Test Booklet and ID Header Sheet)
Test Booklet
Contains only Reading Comprehension subtest.
Must write on top line on back of booklet:
Student Name
School Name
Teacher Name.
DO NOT bubble student’s name or other identifying information.
ID Header Sheet
Preprinted ID Header Sheets will be received for eligible students assigned to your location for summer school.
If no preprinted ID Header, hand- bubble with a #2 pencil:
Student’s Name (last name, first name, and middle initial),
Student’s M-DCPS ID Number (7 digits),
Summer School Location Number (4 digits), and
Student’s Current Grade.
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11. Training School Test Administrators and Proctors
Carefully select test administrators/proctors
Training should include:
Students to be tested
School’s testing schedule
Adhering to script (Included in Program Guide on pgs )
Approximate time required for testing (no limits)
Providing accommodations
Ensuring optimal testing conditions
Test invalidations
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12. “Other Information” Field Codes
“OTHER INFORMATION” Field on ID Header Sheet
Absences, Invalidations, or Accommodations
Absence
Code
Invalidation
Accommodations Code
Reading Comprehension 5 6 9
Coded ID Header Sheets must be submitted for all absent, registered students.
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13. Sample ID Header
1 = NAME - Beginning at the left: Student's last name, first name, and middle initial
2 = STUDENT'S ID NUMBER - Student's 7-digit ID number
3 = SCHOOL - School's 4-digit location number
4 = GRADE - Student's grade level
5 = FORM - Obsolete (Leave Blank)
6 = OPT (Leave Blank)
7 =OTHER INFORMATION:
5 = ABSENT
6 = INVALIDATED
9 = ACCOMMODATION(S)
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14. Distribution & Tracking of Materials
Test booklets and test administration scripts are secure materials but do not include security numbers.
Inventory materials on receipt and report discrepancies immediately to the Test Distribution Center at
Use Teacher Count Sheets to account for test materials distributed to test administrators.
Test administrators must report discrepancies in counts to test chairperson.
Monitor to ensure all procedures are being followed in each testing room.
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15. Administering the Test
Recommend morning administration.
Maintain security procedures.
If a test is invalidated, there is no other opportunity or test that can be given in place of this assessment.
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16. Estimated Testing Time
Approximate Preparation Time
Approximate Testing Time*
Reading Comprehension
10 minutes
50 minutes
Note that the AAGTP is an untimed test; these are suggested times for planning the administration only.
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17. Absences and Invalidations
Absent
Record student name on Record of Absences, Exemptions, and Invalidations Form
Code #5 in “Other Information” Field on ID Header Sheet
Place test booklet and ID Header in manila envelope and label “ABSENT”
Invalidations
Record student name on Record of Absences, Exemptions, and Invalidations Form
Code #6 in “Other Information” Field on ID Header Sheet
Place test booklet and ID Header in manila envelope and label “INVALIDATIONS”
In the event of an invalidation of a group of students, immediately call SAET at
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18. Damaged Test Booklets
Transfer all student identification information and student responses onto a new test booklet.
Write “damaged” on front of the damaged test booklet.
Verify that all transferred information has been correctly gridded.
Place replacement test booklet with “To Be Scored” materials.
Place damaged test booklet in a manila envelope and label “DAMAGED”.
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19. Returning Testing Materials
Verify the return of all test booklets (used and unused) from test administrators.
Count ID Header Sheets for absent and invalidated students.
Record the counts on the Return Packing List for “To Be Scored Materials” Form.
Count “To Be Scored” sets for all students who tested.
Verify required information has been completed in back of used test booklets.
Place ID Header Sheet on top of the grid side of used test booklet.
Record count of “To Be Scored” sets submitted for scoring on the Return Packing List for “To Be Scored Materials” Form.
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20. Returning Testing Materials, Cont.
Count "Not To Be Scored” Materials:
Unused, non-pre- printed ID Headers
Unused test booklets
Program guides
Administration scripts
Count “Damaged” test booklets
Record counts in the Return Packing List for “Not To Be Scored” Materials Form
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21. District Coordinator Envelope
Place the originals of the following completed forms:
Record of Absences, Exemptions, and Invalidations
Return Packing List for “To Be Scored” Materials
Return Packing List for “Not To Be Scored” Materials
Teacher Count Sheets
School Procedural Checklist
District
Coordinator
Envelope
Loc#______
All test materials must be returned to TDC,
13135 S.W. 26 St., by 3:30 p.m.
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22. Packing and Returning Pg. 13 Pgs. 12-13 District Coordinator Envelope:
Copies of the following completed forms:
Record of Absences, Exemptions and Invalidations
Return Packing List for “To Be Scored” Materials
Return Packing List for “Not To Be Scored” Materials
Teacher Count Sheet
School Procedural Checklist
District
Coordinator
“ABSENT” Envelopes
“INVALIDATED” Envelopes (ID Header Sheets/test booklets)
“DAMAGED” Envelopes (ID Header Sheets/test booklets)
“To Be Scored” Materials
ID Header Sheets/Test Booklets
(Place stack of hand-bubbled ID Header Sheets/Test Booklets on top of the stack of preprinted ID Header Sheets/Test Booklets)
“Not To Be Scored” Materials
Unused non-preprinted ID Header Sheets
Unused Test Booklets
Program Guides
Administration Scripts
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23. REMINDERS Complete the online AAGTP Screencast
Verification at
Send Home Parent Letters
School Listing of Student Results (Tentative)

24. Sources of Information
Administration of the AAGTP
Ms. Mayda Cabeza, Director I
SAET at
Test Distribution Center
Ms. Magaly Hernandez, Supervisor I
TDC at
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