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Quick Guides
- 2020-21 Accessing Online Item Samplers, pp. 1-2
- Data Entry User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-24
- Historical Student Data User Guide, pp. 1-6
- Navigation Teacher Guide, pp. 1-8
- Online Testing User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-40
- Ordering Additional Test Materials, pp. 1-2
- Tools Teacher Guide, pp. 1-12
- Viewing Test Material Reports, pp. 1-4
- 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
- Accessing Longitudinal Reports
- Accessing MDE Secure Systems
- Accessing Status Reports
- Accommodations
- Accountability Measures
- Accountability Windows
- Adding Students to a Data Entry Test Session
- Adding Students to a Test Session
- Additional Orders
- Allowable Help to Students
- Allowable Materials
- Alternate ACCESS for ELLs
- Assigning Student Tests to Users - MTAS
- Assurance of Test Security and Non-Disclosure
- Audits
- Avocet
- B
- Benchmark Reports
- C
- Calculator Use
- Career and College Readiness
- Cell Phone and Device Policy
- College Entrance Exam
- Cost of Tests
- Creating a Data Entry Test Session
- Creating a Test Session
- Creating Reporting Groups
- D
- DAC Training Resources
- Data Collection Form
- Data Collection Form - MTAS
- Data Collection Form, MTAS
- Data Entry
- Defective or Damaged Test Materials
- Directions During Testing
- District Testing Calendar
- Document Retention Policy
- Dual-Enrolled Students
- E
- Embargoed Final Assessment Results
- Enabling and Restoring User Accounts
- English Language Proficiency Accountability Assessments
- Entering Learner Characteristics Inventory Data
- Entering Student Responses in the Data Entry Form
- Entering Student Responses Online
- Estimated Test Administration Times - Alternate ACCESS
- Estimated Test Administration Times - MCA
- Estimated Test Administration Times - MTAS
- Ethical Practices
- Exiting and Resuming the Data Entry Form
- Exporting Longitudinal Reports
- Exporting On-Demand Reports
- F
- 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
- Important Dates, MTAS
- Importing User Accounts
- Indicating a Test Code
- Infrastructure Readiness Checklist
- Irregularities
- Item Samplers
- Item Types
- J
- K
- L
- Late Score Entry of MCA Student Responses or MTAS Scores
- LCI Form
- Learner Characteristics Inventory
- Lexile Scores
- Linguistic Supports
- Locking Student Tests in PearsonAccess Next
- M
- Marking a Test Complete
- MCA-IV, Science
- Minnesota Assessments Monitoring List
- Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA)
- Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS)
- Misadministrations
- Monitoring and Audits
- Monitoring Test Administration
- Monitoring Testing Status
- MTAS Data Collection
- MTAS Eligibility
- MTAS Scoring Rubric
- N
- National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
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New in the Procedures Manual for 2019-2020
- Abiding by the Embargo, pp. 214-215
- Benchmark achievement level descriptors available for Reading and Mathematics MCA, p. 223
- Changes to Science MCA, p. 27
- Considerations for electronic copies of student testing tickets, p. 163
- DACs confirm districts provided ISRs to families by Dec. 1., p. 140
- District and School Assessment Coordinator responsibilities are combined., pp. 40-47
- District monitoring of school security procedures, p. 115
- Extra day for individual student who doesn't complete domain, p. 130
- For ACCESS, scratch paper not allowed for Speaking domain, p. 147
- Full Test Security Checklist must be provided., p. 154
- Guidance for scribe accommodation for fill-in-the-blank and constructed response items, p. 89
- Hard-copy mathematics tables, p. 145
- Hard-copy versions of multiplication and hundreds tables posted online, p. 64
- Mathematics manipulatives, p. 79
- New option for paper copies of individual student results, p. 140
- New report about student tests started or completed at different school or district, p. 192
- Redesign of Alternate MCA, p. 29
- Removal of accommodated text-to-speech and script, p. 67
- Revised Topics for District Test Security Procedure, p. 106
- Scheduling Science MCA testing over multiple days, p. 133
- Science MCA-IV, p. 24
- Testing outside school day hours, p. 169
- Testing times for paper grades 1-12 ACCESS, p. 131
- Updated Test Monitor Notes for Braille, p. 84
- White Noise Tool for Online Assessments, p. 61
- Nonpublic Schools
- Nonpublic Schools, Participation in Assessments
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- Office Hours
- On-Demand Reports
- Online Student Tutorials
- P
- Parental Review of Statewide Assessments Policy
- PearsonAccess Next
- Perspective
- Posttest Editing
- Precode Data
- Precode Student Eligibility
- Preliminary Reporting in PearsonAccess Next
- Preliminary Student-Level Results - MCA and MTAS
- Preparing a Data Entry Test Session
- Preparing a Test Session
- Preparing for Test Administration
- Pretest Editing
- Printing Session Student Rosters
- Proctor Caching
- Professionally Responsible Practices
- Providing Results for Students No Longer Enrolled
- Public Release of Final Results
- Published Reports
- Purpose of Student Resources
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Quick Guides
- 2020-21 Accessing Online Item Samplers, pp. 1-2
- Data Entry User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-24
- Historical Student Data User Guide, pp. 1-6
- Navigation Teacher Guide, pp. 1-8
- Online Testing User Guide - MCA, pp. 1-40
- Ordering Additional Test Materials, pp. 1-2
- Published Reports Quick Guide, pp. 1-3
- Tools Teacher Guide, pp. 1-12
- Viewing Test Material Reports, pp. 1-4
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- Receiving Secure Test Materials
- Recently Arrived English Learner
- Recently Arrived English Learner (RAEL)
- Refusal by Parent
- Refusal by Student
- Removing Students from a Test Session
- Removing Users from an Assigned Student Test
- Reporting Suspected Item and Translation Errors and Technical Issues
- Reports
- 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
- Resuming a Test in PearsonAccess Next
- Retained Students
- Returning Secure Test Materials
- S
- Scheduling ACCESS and Alternate ACCESS
- Scheduling Reading, Mathematics, and Science - MCA
- Scheduling Reading, Mathematics, and Science - MTAS
- Score Appeals
- Scoring
- Secure Reports
- Security Checklists
- Session Student Rosters
- Shipment Information in PearsonAccess Next
- Signing in to the Data Entry Form
- Standard Setting
- Standards-Based Accountability Assessments
- Starting a Test Session
- Starting the Data Entry Test Session
- Student Directions, Overview
- Student Information, Verifying and Correcting
- Student Resources
- Student Testing Tickets
- Student Testing Tickets for Data Entry
- Students in Special Circumstances and Situations
- Students with IEPs or 504 Plans
- Submitting Student Responses
- Support
- Systems Overview
- T
- Task Administration Manual
- Teacher Guides
- Technical Bulletins
- Technical Reports
- Test Administration Report
- Test Codes
- Test Development
- Test Materials, MCA and MTAS
- Test Monitor Checklist
- Test Monitors and Test Administrators, Selecting
- Test Security
- Test Security Checklist
- Test Security Investigation Guide
- Test Security Notification
- Test Security Tip Line
- Test Security, District Procedure Requirements
- Test/Accountability Codes
- Testing Directions
- Testing Directions, MCA
- Testing Time Limitations
- Testing Window, Establishment of
- Testing Window, Extension of
- TestNav 8
- Text-to-Speech in PearsonAccess Next
- Tracking Secure Test Material Shipments
- Training (Link to TMS; login required)
- Training Center
- Training Management System
- Training Requirements
- Troubleshooting Guide for Testing
- U
- User Accounts
- User Guides
- User Role Matrix
- User Roles, On-Demand Reports
- Using Student Information and Results
- V
- Valid Score Rules
- Validation against Assessment Records
- Validation against MARSS
- W
- WriteToLearn
- X
- Y
- Z