Testing Integrity 2021-2022

Maintaining test security is important for?

• protecting the investment in the test’s development

• all of these

• upholding professional ethics

• maintaining the integrity of the test’s data

Why is important to maintain the trustworthiness of our tests?

• Tests that result in suspect data are a waste of instructional time.

• Academic fraud results in loss of confidence by all stakeholders in the testing program.

• High stakes decisions are made based on student test scores.

• All of these.

Protecting test content includes protecting all parts of a test item, reading passages, science scenarios, student test tickets, and scratch paper.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT considered improper administration of standardized testing?

• Filling in test answers when students skipped a test item.

• Administering Practice Tests prior to administering the actual test.

• Providing accommodations or modifications not specified in the IEP.

• Changing test answers for struggling students.

If a student takes a cell phone picture of a test item, the test administrator/proctor should immediately...

• contact the building test coordinator.

• contact the student’s parent/guardian.

• submit an appeal to disqualify the student’s test
.

• enter the incident in the testing log.

Which of the following should be reported to the Iowa Department of Education?

• student who skipped through items on the test

• non-scheduled fire drill that interrupted testing

• school employee modifying student responses

• student who left the room without permission

Which type of testing incident could affect test results of students in multiple states?

• Impropriety

• Incident

• Breach

• Irregularity

Which of the following is an example of an irregularity?

• student making distracting noises

• allowing student to take scratch paper out of the classroom

• allowing accommodations not in the student’s IEP or 504 Plan

• posting test items on social media

Which tests are required by the Every Student Succeeds Act (federal law) to be monitored?

• ISASP, DLM, and ELPA21

• SAT, NAEP, and ACT

• ACT, NAEP, and ELPA21

• GOLD, ISASP, and DLM

What monitoring data does the district report on the Spring Basic Educational Data Survey (BEDS)?

• the names of all proctors/test administrators in classrooms that were monitored

• the school’s summary results of the monitoring checklist questions

• the total number of classroom test sessions that were monitored

• the total number of students in classrooms that were monitored