Access is defined as handling the materials, reading, reviewing, or analyzing test items or student responses before, during, or after testing except where providing approved accommodations. 

Processes for Limiting Access:

• Limiting keys to locked secure areas

• Conducting all precoding and sorting of materials in central secure locations

Secure materials are test materials that contain administration test items or student responses and to which access is restricted.

Includes:

• • Student test booklets,

  • Student answer documents, and

  • Any other materials containing test items or student responses (e.g., scratch paper).

Processes to ensure the proper accounting of materials:

• • Identify your local process for check-in and check-out of secure materials

• Administering tests in a manner that would give examinees an unfair advantage or disadvantage

• Giving examinees access to test questions prior to testing

• Examining any test item at any time (except for providing certain accommodations)

• At any time reproducing or discussing all or part of any secure materials

• Coach or interfering examinees in any manner during testing

• Altering or interfering with examinees’ responses in any manner

• Administering previously administered or current forms of any state-wide assessment

• Failing to account for and secure test materials

• Conducting testing in alternate environments without approval

• Failing to report any testing irregularities

• Participating in, encouraging, or failing to report any violation

• Violations of test security can result in the revocation of a teaching or leadership certificate as defined in Bulletin 746.

Email your schedule to the district testing coordinator (ccole@beau.k12.la.us)

Schedule must include:

• Dates of testing for the school

• Approximate time testing will begin each day

• Subjects that will be tested that day

Best Practices:

• Limiting interaction between tested and untested students

• Limiting reopened test sessions by having students complete test sessions within a single seating

• Scheduling students participating in the same test to be assessed at the same time or within the same day with no interaction

• Administering make-up test on the day the student returns in order to eliminate interaction with others already tested

• Utilizing a proctor to maintain security of any student that needs to leave the testing environment during the test

Test administrators should be actively engaged in observing students’ behavior at all times during the administration of state assessments. 

Best Practices for Test Administrators:

• Moving about the testing area so students’ actions can be viewed from multiple vantage points.

• Not be engaged in other activities that would distract or prevent them from accomplishing this task.

• Glance down at the tops and margins of the test booklets to ensure that students are working in the correct portion of the test, but should not read any portion of the test. 

• Maintain test security during breaks by limiting the interaction students have with each other. 

• Test administrators testing in a small group should pay attention to ensure students receive the appropriate accommodations at the appropriate times. 

Plagiarism occurs when a student duplicates another student’s response or an external source.  Examples include similar responses across multiple answer documents and use information from internet resources.

Best Practices:

• Administer the assessment to students taking the same test within the same day

• Limit exposure of the tests by scheduling in such a way that all students are testing at the same time

• Prohibit or limit the presence of cell phones and other electronics within the testing environment

• Limit access to backpacks and other belongings during the administration

Test administrators testing students with accommodations should be provided with the following:

• Counselors must receive/pull a copy of the accommodations page from the IEP program

• Teachers must sign for SPED and 504 accommodations

  • Suggestion: Have teachers that are testing students with accommodations sign a document daily stating they are aware of the accommodations that should be provided to the student(s) they are testing

Test administrators testing students with accommodations, including small group, are expected to actively monitor during administration including moving about the room and ensuring limited student interaction during any breaks.