2023-2024.KTX IA#2 Field Test Cambium CTC Training

2024 STAAR SAFT & IA#2 Turnkey Campus Staff Training Slide Deck

What is SAFT?

A stand-alone field test is necessary to develop future state assessments with writing components.  Field-test data from a sample of students who are representative of the state are critical to the state’s ability to build high-quality assessments.

• English and Spanish - online test only

• No data received

• Number of Questions: 

  • English version: 13 questions with max of 1 extended constructed-response questions

  • Spanish version: 20-24 questions with max of 1 extended constructed-response and 1 short constructed-response question

  • The remainder of each field-test form may vary in the type of test questions presented (e.g., multipart, multiple choice, multiselect, hot text, inline choice).  

• Testing should take 2-3 hours; however, students will have a maximum 7 hours to complete the test. Time is not stopped for lunch/breaks. Testing beyond the instructional day is not allowed.

Who Tests and Testing Dates

Selected Campuses, Tests, and Campus Test Date(s)

• Campuses will select a date in the week of February 5-8, 2024

• One session per day, to be started in the morning

• Schedule 2-3 hours 

• Students must complete the field test in one school day (7 hours max)

• No makeup sessions

All students at the selected campus who are scheduled to take the assigned STAAR reading language arts (RLA) assessment during the 2023–2024 school year should participate in the stand-alone field test. This includes students receiving off-campus instruction (e.g., virtual, homebound, disciplinary setting). Emergent bilingual (EB) students and students with disabilities, with the exception of students who require an accommodation that is not available in the online field test, should participate. 

Eligibility (English)

• Grades 3-8 

  • students who are scheduled to take the assigned grade level STAAR RLA assessment in spring 2024 test

• EOC

  • students who are scheduled to take the assigned course EOC in spring 2024 and are enrolled in and completing the assigned course (i.e., English I,  English II) during the 2023–2024 school year test

    • students who have already passed the EOC but are sitting in the course (earning credit) are not eligible to test

    • students who have already passed the course but not the EOC (retesters) are not eligible to test 

Eligibility (Spanish Grades 3-5)

• Due to the limited number of students who take Spanish assessments, the Spanish RLA field test will be a census field test. 

• All students in grades 3, 4, and 5 who are scheduled to take the STAAR Spanish RLA assessments in spring 2024 are required to participate in the stand-alone field test, and all LEAs who have those students enrolled must administer the field test. 

• If a campus does not have any students who will be taking the STAAR Spanish RLA assessments in spring 2024, then that campus is not required to participate in the Spanish RLA field test.  

• What if the LPAC hasn’t documented the test language for the student yet? 

  • The LPAC doesn’t have to have the language currently documented as LPACs often are held much closer to STAAR testing.  However, if it looks like the student is projected to take STAAR in Spanish, the student will take the Spanish SAFT.  

  • KTX List of students testing in Spanish

Note: These students must have Presentation set to “Spanish” under the RLA column in the Test Attributes panel of TIDE.

Resources and Documents

• SAFT Testing Hub Page 

• SAFT CTC Checklist

• 2024 STAAR Stand Alone Field Test Information

• 2024 STAAR Stand Alone Field Test Manual

• 2024 SAFT Test Administration Instructions

• Field Test Parent Letter

• SAFT 2024 List of schools chosen and test assignments

  • KTX List of students testing in Spanish

• Active Monitoring

• Chrome Browser Troubleshooting Tips

• Test Admin Do's & Don'ts

• Testing - Do Not Disturb Sign