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Student Handout with Student Testing Tips (Two-Sided)• Click here for the Spanish version
Teacher Testing Tips
Teacher/Coordinator and Student Module
This Teacher Resource Page provides tools to help you provide information to your students on the new assessments and upcoming practice field test.
Thank you for your educational leadership and for helping to ensure your students are prepared to take the field test this spring!
Please reach out to your principal with any questions.
Instructions to Access the Practice Test
Teacher Resources
Common Core State StandardsOur Instruc;onal
Founda;on
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Common Core Technology ProjectOur Tools for Success
Smarter Balanced Assessments
Our Knowledge Check
+ + =On-‐Track for College & Career
WHAT: What are these new assessments?The Smarter Balanced Assessments are new assessments that will be given to test the knowledge of the Common Core State Standards. The “pracCce field test” is a trial run that will help us make sure we are prepared for the full launch.
WHO: Which LAUSD students will be taking the pracCce field test?Grades 3-‐8, Grade 11 and some 9th and 10th Grade Students.
WHEN: When will LAUSD parCcipate in the pracCce field test of the assessments?The pracCce field test will take place during a six-‐week window from April 1 -‐ May 16. Your school will schedule your prac3ce field test some 3me during this window. *Note: Bell Senior High School will take the field test some9me during March 18-‐June 6, due to their year-‐round calendar.
WHY: Why do LAUSD students need to parCcipate in this pracCce field test?This prac3ce run helps us make sure everything runs smoothly before the full launch 2014-‐15. It also provides informa3on to the test creators to make sure the test is accurate and fair.
HOW: How will students take the pracCce field test?Students will take the prac3ce field test, and the full assessments in 2014-‐15, on electronic devices, such as a tablet or computer. No more filling in bubbles with pencils!
Students: Get Ready for Next-Generation Assessments!
LAUSD is par9cipa9ng in a “prac9ce field test” of the Smarter Balanced Assessments this spring. This prac9ce run will help us
prepare for the full launch in 2014-‐15.
Check out the pracCce test at: hhps://sbacpt.tds.airast.org/student/
Student Test-Taking Tips
Before the test:
✓Mark the tes7ng day(s) on your calendar.
✓Get enough sleep the night before the test. Your brain and body need rest to perform
at their best!
✓Eat a healthy breakfast the morning of the test to ensure your brain is working at its
best.
✓Wake up early and get to school on 7me the morning of the test.
✓When gekng ready, wear comfortable clothing appropriate for the day’s weather.
During the test:
✓Relax and do your best.
✓Have a posi7ve aktude – this goes a long way toward being successful.
✓Read and pay careful a`en7on to all direc7ons.
✓Read each passage and accompanying ques7ons thoroughly.
✓Keep your eyes focused on your own device.
✓Don't change an answer unless absolutely necessary. Your first choice is usually correct.
✓Don't get upset or frustrated if stuck on a ques7on. Reread the ques7on again, and
then solve it as best you can. Take your best guess if need be.
✓Use the process of elimina7on to help you choose the correct answer in mul7ple-‐
choice ques7ons.
✓Don't worry if others finish before you. Instead, focus on the test in front of you.
✓Go back and review your answers before comple7ng the test. Make sure that you didn't
make any careless mistakes.
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Testing Tips for Teachers
Before Test AdministraCon:
✓ Remind students of the test dates.
✓ Explain to students the purposes for tes3ng.
✓ Encourage all students to ahend and be on 3me on test days.
✓ Ensure the tes3ng room has been prepared for tes3ng by removing or
covering up all instruc3onal materials.
✓ Show students the online universal tools module to acquaint them with the
tools (e.g., types of calculators, expandable text) available in the Smarter
Balanced Assessments.
✓ Have students access the Prac3ce test and/or Training test for the Smarter
Balanced Field Test so that they have an opportunity to experience a test in
a manner similar to what they will see on the prac3ce field test.
✓ Ensure test accommoda3ons for students who require them per their IEP or
Sec3on 504 Plan have been entered into the TIDE system.
✓ Read the direc3ons for test administra3on carefully for instruc3ons and
informa3on.
✓ Arrange for a quiet ac3vity for students who finish tes3ng early. This ac3vity should not be the same subject as what is being tested.
✓ Collect any scratch paper from students used to take notes of the
classroom ac3vity.
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During Test AdministraCon:
✓Ensure that all non-‐approved electronic devices are put away.
✓Distribute to students their SSID number and the Test Session ID.
✓Make sure all students have successfully entered their informa3on.
✓Confirm that these are the correct students to take the test and approve the
students’ login requests.
✓Ensure that all students are tested under the same condi3ons by strictly
adhering to the script for administering the test.
✓Monitor students’ progress on marking answers.
✓Make sure students are working independently.
✓Circulate through the room to ensure that all condi3ons of test security are
maintained.
A_er Test AdministraCon:
✓Collect and account for all note cards with iden3fiable student informa3on.
✓Document any absent students and arranged for them to make-‐up tests.
✓End test session once students have finished.
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Testing Tips for Teachers, Cont.
If you need further assistance, please contact the Office of Internal Communications at 213-241-8390 or email [email protected].
This module to is help school site staff and tes;ng coordinators on what to do when the tes;ng carts arrive, how to prepare carts/devices, set-‐up devices prior to administering the test and how to collect the devices.
To view the eLearning module, click here. (Note: Internet connec;on needed) ✴To proceed to the next slide, simply click “NEXT” in the naviga;on bar.✴Click here for a “push and play” video version of the module. (Note: Internet connec;on needed)
To download the push-‐and-‐play video from iTunes U, click here.
Smarter Balanced Assessments: Student modules/videosThis module to is help students become familiar with the online tools and their func;ons prior to taking the Smarter Balanced Assessments and where they can go to prac;ce using these tools.
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SBAC: OverviewNext-Generation Assessments
Smarter Balanced Assessments: Device Set-up Guide module/video
Module created by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consor;um (SBAC)
Click here for Let’s Talk Universal Tools Module
Click here for the Student Tablet Tutorial video.
To download the video from iTunes U, click here