Assessment AdminInitial Product Training

Welcome

Learning Goals

At the end of this workshop, you will understand how to:

•Locate and create assessment items

•Create an assessment

•Schedule and administer an assessment

Ways to Administer a Test• Paper

• Answer key ONLY

• Enter answers and standards only into Schoolnet

• Print answer bubble sheets through Schoolnet/Questions created on Word, Examview, etc.

• TEST MUST BE RE-CREATED ON SCHOOLNET TO BE ABLE TO USE AS AN ONLINE VERSION IN FUTURE YEARS

• Print or Online version

• Questions, answers, and standards entered into Schoolnet

• Print ONLY if Print question types are created

• Everything is printed within Schoolnet

• Online

• Students take via Schoolnet Secure Tester on Laptop desktops

• Additional questions types available

• Student response systems (clickers)

Analyzeperformancedata, availableonline

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Create testsand test scoring key

Print answersheets,booklets, orusernames

Administer tests to students

Scan results or collect them online

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Testing Administration Overview

• Use Assessment Admin to build tests and monitor the collection of results

• Report on the actual student responses in the Classrooms and School & District Data modules

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What is Assessment Admin?

Create Test Content (Items)

ITEM CENTRAL

ITEM CENTRAL

TEST CENTRAL

TEST CENTRAL

Create itemsCreate items

Set up testSet up test

Create items within test

Create items within test

Add items to Item CentralAdd items to Item Central

Select items from Item Central

Select items from Item Central

Create items separately or as part of a test.

CREATE AND SCHEDULE A PRINTABLE TEST

Two Kinds of Tests

Benchmark

•Results appear in School & District Data and Classrooms

•Tests created at the district or school level for the purpose of institution-wide data collection

•KPI calculations use only the highest level category

Classroom

•Results appear only in Classrooms

•Tests created for the purpose of classroom use

•Can be teacher-created or selected from a pool of pre-made tests

•My Classroom or Common Classroom categories available

Ways to Create a Test

• Manual test

Manual Method

• Add your own questions or use the existing items

Try it! Create a Test

• Create a test with the items you created

Where is my test? • Two dashboard versions

Create Items – Multiple Types Available

• Multiple choice

• True/false

• Gridded response

• Open response (can attach a rubric)

• Inline response

• Matching

• Tasks (a collection of items)

You can attach any item type to a passage.

Try it! Create Items

• Create a few items

• Be sure to preview the test questions BEFORE you give the test to make sure they are showing up as intended!

Insert Images

• Do not paste an image; you must insert it as a file

• For peak online test performance, use sizes below 250KB

• Resize images before adding them

• Supported file formats: png, jpg, or gif

• Inserting a passage of text as an image is not recommended

• Be sure to preview the item

Equation Editor • Open the equation editor from the text editor

• Use the link to access additional equations and modify the syntax to change the font size

Create a Passage for Multiple Items

Rubric for Open Response Items

• Single or multidimensional rubrics

Process for Submitting and Approving

• Any user can submit an item, passage, or rubric to be shared

• Users who are permissioned to do so can approve content at their default institution

• Once the content is approved, the submitter can no longer edit the content

Test Schedule Dates

Online Test Options

Share Assessments with Gradebook

Assign Test

ADMINISTER A TEST

Proctor Dashboard: Monitor an Online Test

• Graphic representation of student progress on the test

• Links to individual student score, answer sheets, and PDF test booklet

Student Online Test Experience• Make sure computers are ready for testing

• Students sign in and enter online passcode

Student Online Test Experience

• Explain test-taking strategies to students

Scoring Options• Updating scanned results with open-ended scores:

– Teachers grade student responses to open-ended items in Assessment Admin

• Online scoring only (the no-scanner approach):– Teachers enter student scores directly in Assessment Admin– For schools with no scanners or for oral tests

• Damaged scan sheets:

– Authorized individuals search for students by ID or name and enter student scores manually

• Upload file:– Upload a spreadsheet of responses

Where are the results?

• Classroom and School & District Data modules