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- College Entrance Exam
- DAC Training Resources
- Directions for Administrations
- MTAS Training for Test Administrators
- New in the Procedures Manual for 2019-2020
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Quick Guides
- Accessing Online Item Samplers, pp. 1-2
- Data Entry User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-15
- Historical Student Data User Guide, pp. 1-6
- Navigation Teacher Guide, pp. 1-8
- Online Testing User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-31
- Ordering Additional Test Materials, pp. 1-2
- Tools Teacher Guide, pp. 1-11
- Viewing Test Material Reports, pp. 1-7
- Training (Link to TMS; login required)
- Troubleshooting Guide for Testing
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- ACCESS and Alternate ACCESS Training for Test Administrators
- ACCESS for ELLs
- ACCESS Test Administration
- Accessing Longitudinal Reports
- Accessing MDE Secure Systems
- Accommodations
- Accountability Measures
- Accountability Windows
- Allowable Help to Students
- Allowable Materials
- Alternate ACCESS for ELLs
- Assurance of Test Security and Non-Disclosure
- Audits
- Avocet
- B
- Benchmark Reports
- Breaks in Testing
- C
- Calculator Use
- Calculators, Online
- Career and College Readiness
- Cell Phone and Device Policy
- College Entrance Exam
- Comparisons Using Results
- Cost to Test
- Creating Reporting Groups
- D
- DAC Training Resources
- Data Collection Form - MTAS
- Data Entry
- Defective or Damaged Test Materials
- Directions for Administrations
- District Testing Calendar
- Document Retention Policy
- Dual-Enrolled Students
- E
- Embargoed Final Assessment Results
- Enabling and Restoring User Accounts
- English Language Proficiency Assessments
- Estimated Test Administration Times - Alternate ACCESS
- Estimated Test Administration Times - MCA
- Estimated Test Administration Times - MTAS
- Ethical Practices
- Exporting Longitudinal Reports
- Exporting On-Demand Reports
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- Final Reports - English Language Proficiency Accountability Assessments
- Final Reports - MCA and MTAS
- Foreign Exchange Students
- G
- Grade Level, Determining
- Graduation Requirements Records (GRR) System
- H
- Historical Student Data
- I
- Important Dates, English Language Proficiency Assessments
- Important Dates, MCA and MTAS
- Importing User Accounts
- Item Samplers
- Item Types
- J
- K
- L
- Late Entry of MCA Student Responses or MTAS Scores
- LCI Form
- Lexile Scores
- Linguistic Supports
- M
- Minnesota Assessments Monitoring List
- Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA)
- Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS)
- Misadministrations
- Monitoring and Audits
- Monitoring Test Administration
- MTAS Eligibility
- MTAS Training for Test Administrators
- N
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
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New in the Procedures Manual for 2019-2020
- Abiding by the Embargo, pp. 201-202
- Abiding by the Embargo, pp. 201-202
- Administering Life Science or Biology assessments to students not passing their course, p. 28
- Administration of incorrect assessment, p. 135
- Benchmark reports redesigned, p. 207
- Bluetooth headphones not allowed during testing, p.154
- Definition of "medical emergency", p. 125
- Districts may administer online and paper MCA tests in the same room., p. 142
- Documentation of full-time PSEO status, p. 129
- Entrance Exam Reimbursement, p. 33
- For ACCESS online testing and WIDA screener, Testing Site Manager replaced with COS-SD, p. 147
- For grades 1-12 ACCESS, Assessment Coordinators no longer required to submit incomplete domains, p. 140
- For grades 1-12 ACCESS, each domain must be given in one sitting, p. 140
- Growth z-scores no longer required to be publicly reported, p. 210
- Manually coded English supports are allowed, p. 91
- MCA and MTAS data combined in the Assessment and Growth files, p. 203
- MCA paper test administrations can be scheduled by segment or by time, p. 145
- MDE annual review of training documentation, p. 65
- MDE may request Test Security Notification for data privacy issues., p. 52
- MDE's annual review of schools' training documentation, p. 56
- MDE's new security system, p. 190
- Number of off-grade items in 3-8 reading and mathematics MCA reduced, p. 25
- Online graphic calculator updated, p. 160
- Procedures Manual, p. 135
- Retention of paper documentation of group training (e.g., sign-in sheets), p. 56
- Retention of paper Test Security Training Checklist, p. 57
- Revised Language in the Assurance of Test Security and Non-Disclosure, p. 51
- School Improvement Assessment Report removed from Secure Reports, p. 197
- Separate codes for contracted and uncontracted braille test books, p. 98
- Sign interpreters permitted to review MCA test materials up to 5 days before administration, p. 106
- Sign interpreters permitted to review MTAS test materials up to 5 days before administration, p. 91
- SPD code for more than two domains, p. 182
- Statewide Testing Systems Overview created for MDE website, p. 16
- Student progress scores no longer reported for grades 3-8, p. 208
- Students may use audio support of online translation program., p. 117
- Test Materials Assigned to Students Checklist (formerly Test Monitor Test Materials Security Checklist), p. 54
- Test Monitors for braille administrations can have up to 5 days prior to administration to review materials., p. 98
- Test monitors may use scripted reminders to stop working or to answer all items, p. 173
- Test Monitors may write information specific to test administration on the board., p. 172
- Testing 1, 2, 3 website, p. 195
- Testing Situations and Misadministrations now called MCA/MTAS Irregularities, p. 174
- Training new DACs when MDE online modules are offline, p. 61
- Update test administration time tables, p. 144
- Updated testing times for Writing Tier A, p. 141
- Updated training course for MCA Test Monitors, p. 60
- Updated training requirements for grades 1-12 ACCESS paper administrations, p. 58
- Updates to Minnesota Assessments Monitoring List, p. 66
- Updates to Test Security Procedure, p. 48
- Nonpublic Schools
- Nonpublic Schools, Participation in Assessments
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- Office Hours
- On-Demand Reports
- Online Student Tutorials
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- Parental Review of Statewide Assessments
- PearsonAccess Next
- Perspective
- Posttest Editing
- Precode Data
- Precode Student Eligibility
- Preliminary Reporting in PearsonAccess Next
- Preliminary Student-Level Results - MCA and MTAS
- Preparing for Test Administration
- Pretest Editing
- Professionally Responsible Practices
- Progress Scores
- Providing Results for Students No Longer Enrolled
- Public Release of Final Results
- Published Reports
- Purpose of Student Resources
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Quick Guides
- Accessing Online Item Samplers, pp. 1-2
- Data Entry User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-15
- Historical Student Data User Guide, pp. 1-6
- Navigation Teacher Guide, pp. 1-8
- Online Testing User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-31
- Ordering Additional Test Materials, pp. 1-2
- Published Reports Quick Guide, pp. 1-3
- Tools Teacher Guide, pp. 1-11
- Viewing Test Material Reports, pp. 1-7
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- Recently Arrived English Learner
- Recently Arrived English Learner (RAEL)
- Refusal by Parent
- Refusal by Student
- Reporting Suspected Item and Translation Errors and Technical Issues
- Reports
- Reports, Final - English Language Proficiency Accountability Assessments
- Reports, Final - MCA and MTAS
- Reports, On-Demand
- Reports, Operational
- Reports, Preliminary
- Reports, Published
- Reports, Secure
- Reports, Technical
- Request for Late Score Entry Form
- Request for Rescore, MCA
- Responsibilities, DAC
- Responsibilities, MARSS Coordinator
- Responsibilities, MTAS Test Administrator
- Responsibilities, SAC
- Responsibilities, School Principal
- Responsibilities, Superintendent/Executive Director
- Responsibilities, Technology Coordinator
- Responsibilities, Test Monitor
- Retained Students
- Returning Secure Test Materials
- S
- Scheduling ACCESS and Alternate ACCESS
- Scheduling Reading, Mathematics, and Science - MCA
- Scheduling Reading, Mathematics, and Science - MTAS
- Scheduling Requirements and Estimated Test Administration Times
- Score Appeals
- Scoring
- Secure Reports
- Security Checklists
- Shipment Information in PearsonAccess Next
- Standard Setting
- Standards-Based Accountability Assessments
- Student Information, Verifying and Correcting
- Student Resources
- Students in Special Circumstances and Situations
- Students with IEPs or 504 Plans
- Support
- Systems Overview
- T
- Technical Bulletins
- Technical Reports
- Test Administration Report
- Test Codes
- Test Development
- Test Materials, English Language Proficiency Assessments
- Test Materials, MCA and MTAS
- Test Materials, Tracking
- Test Monitor Test Materials Security Checklist
- Test Monitors and Test Administrators, Selecting
- Test Security
- Test Security Investigation Guide
- Test Security Notification
- Test Security Tip Line
- Test Security, District Procedure Requirements
- Testing Directions, MCA
- Testing Time Limitations
- Testing Window Establishment
- Testing Window Extension
- TestNav 8
- Tracking Secure Test Materials
- Training (Link to TMS; login required)
- Training Center
- Training Management System
- Training Requirements
- Troubleshooting Guide for Testing
- U
- Use of Student Information
- User Accounts
- User Guides
- User Role Matrix
- User Roles, On-Demand Reports
- V
- Valid Score Rules
- Validation against Assessment Records
- Validation against MARSS
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- WriteToLearn
- X
- Y
- Z