assessment admin initial product training welcome
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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