Assessment Daily Update (ADU) December 7, 2017 Paula A. Vanderford, Chief Accountability Officer Office of Student Assessment Vinnie Segalini, State Assessment Director 601.359.3052
Agenda OSA Task Tracker (Vincent Segalini) Questar 411 and Call Statistics District Enrollment and Analytical Data Review OSA 411 FAST Team Coordinator Final OSA Remarks 2
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. Friday, December 8 will November 7- December 8 be the last day to order Accommodated Testing Materials Testing Materials to 4 Additional Materials Order Window November 7-December 15 ensure delivery before Shipping labels, etc. the close of the test Located under the Help Tab in Nextera window.
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
MAP Call Center Statistics Date Number of Calls Average Wait Time 12/7/2017 17 11 seconds, 36 seconds max wait time 12/6/2017 24 12 seconds, 28 seconds max wait time 12/5/2017 50 19 seconds, 1 minute 51 seconds max wait time 12/4/2017 18 41 seconds, 3 minute 48 seconds max wait time 12/1/2017 8 26 seconds, 2 minute and 12 seconds max wait time 11/30/2017 22 12 seconds, 41 seconds max wait time 11/29/2017 26 14 seconds, 1 minute and 6 seconds max wait time 11/28/2017 12 13 seconds, 21 seconds max wait time 11/27/2017 15 12 seconds, 15 seconds max wait time 7
District Enrollment and Analytical Data Review Total Projected Percentage of Percentage Completed Assessment Total Testing Previously Tests Tests of Test Tests to day Tested Remaining Remaining Completed Algebra I 10,510 1,186 4,058 5,266 50.1% 49.9% Biology I 10,930 1,005 7,385 2,539 23.2% 76.8% English II 11,542 1,004 4,978 5,559 48.2% 51.8% U. S. History 9,990 1,348 5,782 2,860 28.6% 71.4% Total 42,972 4,543 22,203 16,224 37.8% 62.2% * Numbers reported by Questar as of 12:00 pm on December 7, 2017. 8
OSA 411 Question Answer 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 students procedures need to be followed? 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. Because it has communicated daily through the ADU, students who do not follow these directions in the TAM must be invalidated. What can be done if accommodations were not If the student has made significant progress through the assessment, an set before the student begins testing and the test IEP committee MUST meet to determine needs to be reset? A. The team may choose to leave the scores as is. Currently, all tests have been submitted and will be scored. B. The team may choose to invalidate the scores and not retest the student. C. The team may choose to reset the test, and test the student with the appropriate accommodations. Documentation must be provided that all individuals were properly trained. 9
FAST Team Coordinator 10
FAST Visits • Tunica County School District 11
Assessment Daily Update (ADU) December 7, 2017 Paula A. Vanderford, Chief Accountability Officer Office of Student Assessment Vinnie Segalini, State Assessment Director 601.359.3052
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