6000 Instruction

6700 Testing and Evaluation

6710 Academic Achievement

6714 CSAP Test Security Procedures


The purpose of this procedure is to describe what constitutes unethical practices related to the security of test booklets before, during and after CSAP test administration. Currently, CTB ships test booklets to each Colorado school district about three weeks prior to the start of the test window. These booklets remain in districts and schools up to one week after the test window ends. This results in these booklets being in the districts and schools for about 7-8 weeks (except for grade 3 tests, which are returned earlier).

It is unethical for anyone to violate the security procedures for CSAP assessments. It is unethical to knowingly and willfully:

• Give examinees access to test questions prior to testing;
  
• Copy, reproduce, or use in any manner inconsistent with test security regulations all or any portion of any secure test booklet, for any reason;
  
• Share an actual CSAP test instrument in a public forum;
  
• Coach examinees during testing or alter or interfere with examinees’ responses in any way;
  
• Deviate from the prescribed administration procedures specified in the CSAP Administration Manual in order to boost student performance;
  
• Leave visible “word walls,” vocabulary posters, spelling words, multiplication tables, or any other aids that could artificially inflate student scores or that are expressly forbidden in the CSAP Administration Manual. Such material may not be considered as accommodations for purposes of CSAP;
  
• Allow students to use dictionaries, thesauri, or word processors with spell and grammar check on the reading and writing assessments;
  
• Not scribe exact student responses, including grammatical errors and incorrect responses when scribing is the accommodation;
  
• Fail to turn in a test book for each student including those excluded from the assessment;
  
• Make answer keys available to examinees;
  
• Fail to follow security regulations for distribution and return of secure test materials as directed, or fail to account for all secure test materials before, during and after testing;
  
• Participate in, direct, aid, counsel, assist in, encourage or fail to report any of the acts prohibited in this section.
  
  

Moffat County School District RE-1 Regulation 6714