PSSA

Be Positive!

PSSA Do's

• Read the Directions for Administration Manual
• Cover everything in room
• Make sure you monitor constantly
• Follow test security and administration guidelines
• Place a "Testing-Do Not Disturb" sign on outside door
• Have a work packet prepared for when students finish the test section
• Supervise students at all times-never let tests out of sight
• Pick-up and Start "ON TIME"!
• Return completed tests immediately upon finishing each day
• Only complete 1 section each day
• Call for a hall proctor if student is ill or needs bathroom
• Ask students if they checked all answers before turning in - do not look yourself
• Make sure students return test booklet, score sheet, pencils, highlighters and scrap paper to baggie before turning back in to you- return to bin and mark student checklist paper in bin - mark anyone who was absent and list what section they missed
• If not sure about something - call office for help - don't guess
• Report any mis-hap to the office and they will contact Ms. Harvey.
• Congratulate students at the end of each section for persevering and trying their hardest

PSSA Do's

• Supervise students at all times-never let tests out of sight
• Pick-up and Start "ON TIME"!
• Return completed tests immediately upon finishing each day
• Only complete 1 section each day
• Call for a hall proctor if student is ill or needs bathroom
• Ask students if they checked all answers before turning in - do not look yourself
• Make sure students return test booklet, score sheet, pencils, highlighters and scrap paper to baggie before turning back in to you- return to bin and mark student checklist paper in bin - mark anyone who was absent and list what section they missed
• If not sure about something - call office for help - don't guess
• Report any mis-hap to the office and they will contact Ms. Harvey.
• Congratulate students at the end of each section for persevering and trying their hardest

PSSA Do's

• Make sure students return test booklet, score sheet, pencils, highlighters and scrap paper to baggie before turning back in to you- return to bin and mark student checklist paper in bin - mark anyone who was absent and list what section they missed
• Return all book baggies in alphabetical order

PSSA Do's

• If not sure about something - call office for help - don't guess
• Report any mis-hap to the office and they will contact Ms. Harvey.
• Congratulate students at the end of each section for persevering and trying their hardest

PSSA Do Nots

• Review and/or provide answers to test questions to students
• Read any part of the test to students except directions
• Never check a student's book
• Never break a seal to a section ahead of time
• Work on a computer or have your cell phone out in your room during testing
• Copy or reproduce any part of secure tests
• Return test bins without checking each test bag is returned every day
• Allow students to have cell phones or computers during testing
• Instruct students to use a test-taking technique that would require them to bubble or strike through more than one response to a test question and then return and erase all but one response
• Assist in, direct, aid, counsel, encourage, or fail to report immediately any of the actions prohibited in the administration manuals
• Do not show or share any nervousness on your part - ever!

PSSA Do Nots

• Copy or reproduce any part of secure tests
• Return test bins without checking each test bag is returned every day
• Allow students to have cell phones or computers during testing
• Assist in, direct, aid, counsel, encourage, or fail to report immediately any of the actions prohibited in the admin manual

PSSA Do Nots

• Instruct students to use a test-taking technique that would require them to bubble or strike through more than one response to a test question and then return and erase all but one response
• Do not show or share any nervousness on your part - ever!
• Do not forget to tell students how you were so pleased they worked so hard and took their time on each section.

Test Security

• Pick up test bins on Time
• Check your bin and sign paperwork when picking up and returning bin
• Never leave bin in an unlocked room
• If student damages test booklet or answer sheet- call office for assistance
• If we have to evacuate the building during testing, do not collect tests- leave everything on desks but lock classroom door before leaving
• If we have to evacuate and you've already collected the tests, lock the bin in a closet and lock classroom door.
• Remember -you cannot read anything to a student, help with vocab, or pronouncing a word. You cannot give any clues or advice, etc. You only can read directions (except Spec. Ed. teachers per accommodations).
• Do not send anyone out of your room without an adult escort who carries their test.
• Wait for directions before sending anyone to the extra time room(s) -they need to be escorted.
• Report testing irregularities/security breaches to Ms. Harvey as soon as possible.
• Make sure that sections/modules are started and completed the same day.
• Keep voice inflections neutral of an allowable or required accommodation is to read portions of the test aloud. (Only Special Education teachers)
• No student should enter your room after 8:20 AM until testing is finished.

Test Security

• Remember -you cannot read anything to a student, help with vocab, or pronouncing a word. You cannot give any clues or advice, etc. You only can read directions (except Spec. Ed. teachers per accommodations).
• Do not send anyone out of your room without an adult escort who carries their test.
• Wait for directions before sending anyone to the extra time room(s) -they need to be escorted.
• Report testing irregularities/security breaches to Ms. Harvey as soon as possible.
• Make sure that sections/modules are started and completed the same day.
• Keep voice inflections neutral of an allowable or required accommodation is to read portions of the test aloud. (Only Special Education teachers)
• No student should enter your room after 8:20 AM until testing is finished.

Test Security

• Wait for directions before sending anyone to the extra time room(s) -they need to be escorted.
• Report testing irregularities/security breaches to Ms. Harvey as soon as possible.
• Make sure that sections/modules are started and completed the same day.

Test Security

• Keep voice inflections neutral if an allowable or required accommodation is to read portions of the test aloud. (Only Special Education teachers)
• No student should enter your room after 8:20 AM until testing is finished.

Testing Information

• Testing days are "Black out" days for staff
• Schedules will be discussed in early April once small groups are made
• MS students will eat lunch in classrooms on testing days
• Teachers will eat lunch with students

Information

• Some of you will test administrators, others will be proctors
• Students arriving to school after 8:20 AM will be sent to room 229 during testing
• Testing schedules supercede planning periods, and regular schedules
• Movies need prior approval to be shown during testing days
• You can take your class outside weather permitting after testing & lunch
• Practice walk-throughs will occur the first week of April -so students know where to go after homeroom on testing days
• Clubs will continue during testing weeks

Reminders

• Do not discuss, disseminate, or otherwise reveal the contents of the test to anyone.
• Alter, influence, or interfere with a test response in any way, fill in any unanswered item, or instruct the student to do so.
• Do not erase or change student answers.
• READ, READ, READ your Manuals!!!
• PSTAT certificates must be submitted by tomorrow at noon.

Final thoughts:
Be Excited!
Be Prepared!
Be Vigilant!