STAAR Procedures

If your room is being used for testing - make sure:

• materials that lead to specific answers are covered

• room is clean

• You have a working clock

Day of Testing - Put your cell phone and smartwatches

• In your pocket

• On silence in your testing bucket

• in a locked cabinet

• In your car

While actively monitoring you may:

• Read a book

• Take a nap

• Walk around

• Make a grocery list

On the day of the test make sure you have enough...

• Calculators

• Dictionaries

• Snacks

Collect cellphones and read the cell phone policy to the students prior to passing out tests, booklets or test tickets.

• True

• False

Teachers and students are allowed to wear smart watches within the testing day.

• True

• False

Teachers are allowed to have cell phones in the testing room to monitor time remaining to test.

• True

• False

Per TEA guidelines, who must be STAAR trained?

• Test Administrators

• Principals

• Paraprofessionals

• Superintendent

• All of the above

Once testing materials are in your possession, you should:

(Check all that apply)

• never leave them unattended

• allow a student to hold them for you

• allow a trained test administrator to hold them for you

• leave them unattended in your classroom

• return them to CTC if you need to step away or during lunch break

Serious irregularities include: (Check all that apply)

• tampering with student responses

• directly or indirectly assisting students with test responses

• scoring student tests either formally or informally

• discussing test content with another test administrator