a tour of proctoring

Hart Middle School

M-STEP
Spring 2015

Enhancing Your Proctoring Experience

Before
Testing

During
Testing

After Testing

We have directions for every step of the way

BEFORE TESTING Ensure students have practiced OTT/Sample Item Sets.

Understand your scheduled testing time.
Prepare testing locations for testing.
Do not enhance Classroom Activity.
Make sure all of your students have participated in the Classroom
Activity the day before the Performance Task-Use absent list.
AM Test Tickets to be picked up by proctors in Jeannes office-7:00.
PM Test Tickets will be delivered to your testing location.

BEFORE TESTING Check-out your testing location and make a seating chart of which
students will be at which computers.
ELA, Social Studies and Science take BLANK scratch paper to the
testing location for student use.
Make sure students have a pencil and a book to read when leaving
going to the testing location.
Review all Sections of the M-STEP Online Administration
Directions.
Make the corrections to your M-STEP Online Administration
Directions: pages 12, 16 and 17.
If youre not sureask.

DURING TESTING Make sure students sit at the computer you have assigned to them
for each day of the test.
Distribute headphones and scratch paper (graph-paper for math).
Make sure all reading material is on the floor.
Ill be coming around mid-way through the test to collect your
absent list.
Explain the importance of a quiet and focused testing environment.
Before you begin to read the testing directions to the students,
remind them to not click ahead!!! There are five pages of short
directions before the directions for the actual test begin.

DURING TESTING Start to read the scripted directions that begin on page 6 and end
on page 11. These are largely for confirmation of proper student
ID, the distribution of test tickets and to launch INSIGHT.
On page 8 are directions for the next screen which is the MStep/Mi-Access---Make sure kids click on the M-Step Sign-In
A sign in screen will appear-afterward there are several screens
A test selection screen will appear-make sure students select the
right test
Test directions begin on page 12 of the M-STEP Online
Administration Directions. They include: a welcome screen (ID),
security check and navigation/tools.

DURING TESTING On page 17 there are specific directions for each test and page 18 is
helpful hints.
Ending the test-when there are no more next buttons an END
TEST button will appear.
If students have not answered all questions there will be a flag
noting that.
Once the END TEST button is clicked the test becomes locked and
cannot be unlocked.
Students can use the bathroom.
After 20 minutes of being off-line theyll have to sign back in to the
test using their test ticket.

AFTER TESTING When students complete testing their only choice is to read silently.
They cannot read any material connected with the content taught
in school.

All scrap and graph paper used by students will be picked up by the
building test coordinator and destroyed.
Please stay in your testing location until the testing session is
finished.
If students are still working when there is five minutes left in your
session call 4509 and let me know. Then send them down to my
office.

HART MIDDLE SCHOOL

M-STEP
SPRING 2015

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