1. Field Test Workshop April 22, 2014

2. What’s New? O Updated TAM – (3/24/2014) http://sbac.portal.airast.org/wp- content/uploads/2014/01/Test-Administration-Manual- FT.pdf O Updated Test Administrator’s Guide (3/25/14) http://sbac.portal.airast.org/wp- content/uploads/2014/03/Smarter_TA- User_Guide_FieldTest_Spring2014.pdf O Guidelines for Read Aloud Test Reader (3/11/2014) http://www.smarterbalanced.org/wordpress/wp- content/uploads/2014/03/Read-Aloud-Guidelines.pdf

3. Test Setting O Some test settings cannot be changed after a test has started. (Begin Text Now button) O American Sign Language O Braille O Closed Captioning O Streamlined Interface (testing shell) O Translations (stacked- mathematics only)

4. Basic Test Rules O Must answer all questions before going on O Can flag items for review (drop-down to return) O Review and change if not paused for more than 20 minutes O Cannot return to segments once completed

5. Pause Rules O Must log back on O Directed to first page that has unanswered item O Non-PT tests have 20 minute rules O Not permitted to change previously answered items O PT do not have a pause limit rule O Contain 2 segments O Cannot return to first segment once completed

6. Segments O PT tests O all ELA tests contain 2 segments O Non-PT tests O All ELA tests contain 2 segments O Math tests contain multiple segments (some 2 some 4 O Some don’t allow calculators

7. TA Interface for Field Tests 1. Session ID 2. Test Selection table 3. Pending Approvals Notifications and Preview Window 4. Students in Your Test Session Table

8. Starting a Test Session O Tests are automatically listed O By grade then subject O NonPT O PT O Students are pre-assigned selected tests and can only take those tests.

9. Approvals O Approvals 0 O Not clickable O Don’t approve students whose test settings are incorrect O 3 Approvals needed O Clickable O Preview shows test

10. Approvals O This window does not refresh O Standard Settings = default O Custom Settings = supports and accommodations O Approve individual or approve all students O Denying students (reason- test settings, incorrect information,etc)

11. Stopping Test Sessions O Click Stop Session O Verification O Remember Stopping requires logging back in O New Session ID O Log out after stopping O After 20 minutes of inactivity, the session is “stopped” O Non-PT tests only – students cannot return to previously answered items

12. Test Layout

13. What We’ve Learned…