LAC 28:XI.5511. School Test Coordinator Role [Formerly LAC 28:CXI.511]

A. A school test coordinator's responsibilities include: 1. supervising testing procedures and materials control at the school level; 2. scheduling testing dates and times with the district test coordinator; 3. making arrangements to test students with accommodations or accessibility features when needed; 4. scheduling and monitoring makeup testing; 5. notifying the district test coordinator immediately of any missing secure materials; 6. verifying the count of all materials received and reporting any discrepancies to the district test coordinator; 7. ensuring the security of testing materials; 8. noting any discrepancies in the count or numbering of test booklets or answer documents from that recorded on the security check off lists from the testing contractor; 9. notifying the district test coordinator of additional test booklets, answer documents, or manuals needed; 10. reviewing all manuals in their entirety; 11. conducting a training session in test security and administration for test administrators and all other individuals who have access to secure materials before, during, and after test administration; 12. compiling a list of students approved for accommodations, with the accommodations they are to receive, and providing a list of such students in a testing group to individual test administrators; 13. verifying that classrooms have been prepared for testing (test-related content material removed or covered, sufficient space for students, testing sign on door); 14. distributing materials to test administrators on the appropriate testing day and collecting, checking in and putting into the secure storage area all secure testing materials at the end of each day of testing and during any extended breaks; 15. monitoring testing sessions; 16. supervising test administrators who must transfer student answers from large-print, braille, or other accommodation formats to a scorable test form; 17. collecting and returning any computer disks or other accommodation-format testing materials; 18. reporting any testing irregularities to the district test coordinator; and 19. packaging test materials as instructed in the manuals for return to the district test coordinator; 20. assigning TA numbers before scheduled test administrations; 21. distributing student reports and summary reports to teachers and parents in a timely manner.