Assessment Daily Update (ADU) December 5, 2017 Paula A. Vanderford, Chief Accountability Officer Office of Student Assessment Vinnie Segalini, State Assessment Director 601.359.3052
OSA Task Tracker Task ID Task Name Status Issue(s) QAI and MDE staff will be 1 November 28- December 15, 2017 performing site visits to districts. Office of Student Assessment 2 Internal MDE Call Center 601-359-3052 Questar Customer Service Miscellaneous technical issues and 1.800.644.4054 3 student information issues. mscustomersupport@questarai.com Chat feature is available under Help in Nextera. November 7- December 15 4 Additional Materials Order Window Located under the Help Tab in Nextera
OSA Task Tracker Task ID Task Name Status Issue(s) Libby Cook General MAAP & Math ecook@mdek12.org Melissa Beck MAAP ELA & MKAS2 mbeck@mdek12.org MAAP US History & Tiwari McLain Biology tmclain@mdek12.org 5 MDE Program Contact Accommodations & Pleshette Smith MAAP-A mcsmith@mdek12.org Sharon Prestridge EL SPrestridge@mdek12.org Jennifer Robinson ACT & NAEP Jennifer.Robinson@mdek12.org
Questar 411 Task ID Issue Status Response 1 Loss of Connectivity Ongoing Do not move students to another machine. Students may continue to test. Connectivity must be reestablished to submit the assessment. 2 Accessibility and Ongoing Accommodations must be set in the Nextera Accommodations administration site before a student begins testing. 3 Pausing for Breaks Ongoing Direct students to click on the pause/sign-out button in the upper right corner of the screen. If a student is in the review screen they need to exit to pause. 4 Additional Material Orders Ongoing Orders take approximately 4 days to ship to MS. 5 Transcribing the Writing Ongoing Students’ responses for all accommodated forms must Component be transcribed into Nextera. 6 Test Administration Page Ongoing This functionality will be implemented for the spring Online/Offline Status testing window. Indicator 5
Questar 411 Task ID Issue Status Response 7 Online Read-Aloud Writing Ongoing “Prompt” is the equivalent to “Question” in Nextera. Script Clarification 6
OSA 411 Question Answer Does accommodation 25 require MDE request for No, prior approval is not required from MDE. Accommodation 25 must approval? be included on the student’s IEP, 504 Plan or LSP and marked for the assessment area(s) for which it is used. Which accommodations need MDE approval? Accommodations 98 and 99 must have prior MDE approval, except paper-pencil, extended time, and other previously approved accommodations for the respective assessment. Extraordinary accommodations must have prior approval. How do I document accommodation 23 and 24 in CORRECTION: You do not have to mark in Nextera per Questar’s Nextera for extended time? guidance. What accommodations are available for students If a student has an IEP or 504 Plan, you must provide the with a documented diagnosis of dyslexia? accommodation(s) listed as long as it is allowable and marked for that assessment area. Students with a diagnosis of dyslexia that were evaluated by a licensed psychologist, psychometrist, or speech language pathologist (HB 1031, July 2012) may be afforded the extended time accommodations #20/23, #24, and/or #25. 9
OSA 411 Question Answer Is scratch paper allowed for the writing portion Yes of the ELA assessment? If a student proceeds to Prompt 2 or completes Test administrators must be vigilant of students clicking to the second Prompt 2 before Prompt 1 time is up, what prompt before the end of the allotted 75 minutes. Please advise procedures need to be followed? students to wait until instructed to hit the arrow button to move to the next question/prompt. If a student begins on the second prompt before the allowed time period, please follow guidance on page 37 in the TAM regarding students moving to the second prompt. 10
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