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Updated: 1/31/2020
ISASP FAQ
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General
Districts can administer the ISASP test between March 16th – May
Can districts choose when to administer the ISASP?
15th, 2020. Best practice is to define a 2-3 week testing window.
Mathematics: Grades 3-11
English Language Arts (Reading and Language/Writing): Grades
What subjects and grades are included in the ISASP?
3-11
Science: Grades 5, 8, 10.
What are the approximate test times? Recommended testing times are in the Test Administrator Manual.
The costs are outlined in the ISASP Costing Information document
What are the costs to administer the ISASP Test?
on the Bulletins page of the ISASP Portal.
Scratch paper can be securely destroyed locally and should not be
Should scratch paper be returned to Pearson?
returned to Pearson.
Test Design
Do the tests assume understanding of the Iowa Core Standards? The test blue prints are on the ISASP Portal.
Questions have been written to be neutral with regard to
How do the paper and online test compare when online uses one
calculators. Use of a scientific or graphing calculator will not
type of calculator?
enhance performance.
Rulers and protracts are not available as online tools. No questions
Can paper and pencil student bring their own math tools?
on the ISASP Math tests require the use of rulers or protractors.
Will the test be norm-referenced or criterion-referenced? The ISASP is a standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment.
Student Registration
Our district has a high rate of students moving in and out. How Student registrations can be updated throughout the testing
close to our testing window will we be able to update student window.
registrations?
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PearsonAccessnext will support manual entry of students who need
How will home-school students be enrolled for testing? to test. Testing locations will need to work with ITP to register
students who do not have a state ID.
All students must be registered in PearsonAccessnext regardless of
testing mode. To receive pre-ID labels and an initial shipment of
Do students need to be registered in PearsonAccessnext if we are
materials, students must be registered as paper and pencil by
only testing paper and pencil?
January 24th, 2020. Students were automatically pre-populated
based on the district’s response to the ITP Testing Mode Survey.
The receiving district (where the student has been sent and it is
How do schools handle student registration for open-enrolled attending) should test the students. Students in special programs
students placed in programs like Eldora and Rabiner? should be tested by the district the programs are affiliated with or
the appropriate AEA.
Students may be tested in the same manner as your district’s
How do we test a student who attends our school, but the student’s students. PearsonAccessnext provides a variety of enrollment codes.
home is not in our district? Please see the Test Administrator Manual for a complete list of
codes.
How do we test a student who attends school in a different state? Contact ITP for assistance.
Schools can complete a Student Registration Import or manually
How do I register a new student? create new students in PearsonAccessnext. Students must be
registered in PearsonAccessnext prior to beginning testing.
Accountability and Testing Requirements
Will full academic year still be an important consideration as it Students who attend a partial academic year will be included in
was under NCLB? accountability determinations
Students should take the assessment in the grade in which the
Is out-of-level testing still allowed?
student is registered to participate.
All students who are enrolled prior to the test date and during the
How will the State determine participation?
assessment window will be required to be assessed.
Does the ISASP replace the Iowa Assessments and are the Iowa The ISASP will be used for state and federal student accountability
Assessments still available? purposes beginning with the 2018-19 school year. The Iowa
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Assessments are still offered and may be continued to be used
(Social Studies, ACT predictions, primary grades, off-grade
Science, longitudinal studies).
A student registration export in PearsonAccessnext should be
How do I check is my student are registered for online or paper
completed to verify student registrations. Students with the value 1
and pencil testing?
in the Online Testing column will be registered as online.
Transfer and New Students
If a student enrolls in our district after we have finished testing, are No. If a district has finished testing, the DE does not expect that
we required to test the student? student to be assessed.
If the previous district has not assigned the student to a test session
If a student enrolls in our district, is it our district’s responsibility you can add and register the student to your district. If the previous
to contact the previous district to un-enroll them? district has already added the student to a session, contact ITP for
assistance.
Training
Training will be completed in the ISASP TMS system:
Have the upcoming training dates been set?
https//ia.tms.pearson.com.
Test Security
It is best practice for districts to have a written policy on test
security. School can refer to Chapter 2 of the Test Administrator
Are districts required to have a written policy on test security?
Manual or the Test Security Training located in the Test
Administration Training TMS module.
To complete a training, you must view all slides. Once you log in
to the TMS, you can access a record of your completed trainings
by selecting the User icon next to your name on the upper right,
How do we indicate the Test Security Module has been
and then selecting View Completed Trainings from the dropdown
completed?
menu. This record can be printed. Admin users can download a
report in TMS to verify completed training for all users at a
district.
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To answer whether a person can proctor the ISASP or not, three
questions must be answered in the affirmative:
1. Does the person hold a current license from BOEE?
2. Is the person accountable to the Iowa Teaching Standards
Who can proctor and monitor a test? or the Iowa Educational Leadership standards?
3. 3. Has the person been appropriately trained by the district
and agrees to comply with the Test Security requirements
found in the Test Administrator Manual and the Iowa Test
Security Manual.
Practice Tests
Practice test can be accessed by selecting the Practice Tests link in
Where are the practice tests located? TestNav or on the ISASP Portal. Practice tests are only available
online.
It is strongly advised that students access the practice test prior to
testing so they are familiar with the item types and the online
When should students complete the practice test?
testing prior to taking the operational assessment. Timing should
be based off the district testing window.
General Testing
Proctors may exercise their professional judgement to determine
When can we discontinue the assessment for a student who is not
when a student is no longer making progress and if the test should
making progress?
be stopped.
If a student has not finished a test subject and all other students Students who are not able to complete the assessment during the
move onto another test the next day, should the student who is not scheduled time must be provided additional time during the initial
finished the previous subject or move on to the next subject? testing day to complete the assessment. Due to test security issues
every effort must be made to ensure the student finishes the
Must a test be finished the same day? assessment on the day it began.
When can a student receive breaks during testing? Proctors may include a soft break during testing if test security is
maintained.
Does Language/Writing need to be completed the same day?
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For online Language/Writing, the test is broken up in three
sections to allow for breaks or multiple day testing. For paper
Language/Writing, the test is broken up in three sections to allow
for breaks or multiple day testing;
• Language Section 1 (test book and writing section 2
answer document)
• Writing Section 2 (writing section 2 test book/answer
document)
• Writing Section 3 (writing section 3 test book/answer
document)
Accessibility and Accommodations Paper and Online
Designated supports are not intended to be Universal tools turned
on for all students or entire grades, but rather determined on an
individual basis based on student need. The intent of these tools is
to provide extra support to a student who might not otherwise be
How do we select the appropriate accommodations for students? able to access the assessment without these designated supports.
The Iowa Statewide Assessment Accessibility Manual includes a
Personal Needs Profile Planning Tool which should be used by
educators and instructional teams to determine the appropriate
designated support for a particular student.
The Mathematics and Science tests will be available in Spanish.
Are there translated versions of the test?
ELA will not have a Spanish format.
Only students who are designated as English-learners (EL) may
Who can utilize the Spanish versions of the assessment? take the test in Spanish if it has been determined appropriate by a
team of local educators.
For students taking a Spanish version of the test, answers written
Will responses in Spanish (short answer or the extended response)
in Spanish or English will be scored. For the Language/Writing
be scored?
and Reading tests only responses written in English will be scored.
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The Accessibility and Accommodations Manual is posted on the
Where can I find a full list of the available accommodations?
ISASP Portal.
The ISASP is not a timed test. All students should be given ample
Is extra time able to be given to ITP/504 students?
time to take each test in accordance with the Test Security policies.
Speech-to-text is not available in TestNav. Speech-to-text requires
third party software and the test administrator transcription of
Can students use speech-to-text for testing?
student responses into either TestNav or the paper and pencil
answer document.
The directions are included in the Test Administrator Manual and
include English and Spanish directions. The Spanish online
Will the directions for administering the assessment be available in
version of the test will have directions in Spanish. All other local
various languages?
translations should be done in accordance with Appendix B in the
Accessibility and Accommodations Manual.
The Calculator Policy is found on the Bulletins page of the ISASP
Is there a calculator policy for the ISASP?
Portal.
Districts may use a locally-developed method to document the
What type of documentation is required to be kept for accessibility
decision-making process used to assign supports to students. The
features? Can districts use any form/spreadsheet?
documentation should be retained locally.
Paper and Pencil Testing
Paper and pencil versions of the tests will be available each year.
How long will paper and pencil tests be available?
The expectation is that districts will move to online testing.
Paper and pencil tests will be administered with a test book and a
How is paper and pencil testing administered? separate scannable answer document. All materials will be
returned to Pearson for scoring.
For paper and pencil testing materials will be shipped in two
waves. The first wave will be sent the week of March 2nd for those
Why is entering a District-Designated Testing window required?
testing between March 16th – April 10th or for those who did not
select a testing window. The second wave will be sent the week of
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March 30th for those testing between April 13th – May 15th. All
students could be tested via paper and pencil in 2-3 weeks.
Paper materials will not automatically be sent for students updated
to paper after the January 24th deadline. An additional materials
If I switch students from online to paper after the January 24th order must be placed, and the student registration updated. Pre-ID
deadline will I receive paper materials for these students? labels are not available for new paper students after the January
24th deadline, and the student information must be hand-gridded
on the answer documents.
Accessibility and Accommodations
Braille is available for all tests. Braille student responses must be
transcribed into a scannable answer document for scoring. Please
contact the Iowa School of the Blind for braille materials.
Are there braille versions of the test?
Karen Cunningham
524 4th Street Des Moines, IA 50309-2302
Karen.Cunningham@blind.state.ia.us
Large print is available for all tests; however all large print must
be transcribed into a scannable answer document to be scored.
Are there large print versions of the test?
Large print can be ordered during the additional materials order
window. See the Bulletins page for the list of Important Dates.
Online Testing
The goal is to move to 100% online testing for all districts and
schools. Some schools may not be ready to make the transition
Is online testing required?
immediately. Paper and pencil tests will be available at an
additional cost during this transition.
No, the ISASP may be given online in a laboratory (or similar)
Is 1-to-1 required to administer the test online?
environment.
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For online, it is expected that districts will designate a testing
Why is entering a District-Designated Testing window required if
window which balances local technology constraints against the
we are not testing paper and pencil?
need of maintaining test security.
Depending on the accommodations, schools may find it easier to
Do students with accommodations need to be setup in a different
manage if the students with accommodations are setup in separate
test session?
test sessions for certain IEPs.
Students entered as paper prior to the January registration deadline
If I switch students from paper to online after the January 24th
will receive paper. Test may be switched to online, but there is a
deadline will I still receive paper materials for these students?
fee for unused paper materials.
Students are assigned to sessions for online testing which are
How are students placed into the correct classes online? created locally by schools and can organize the students into any
groups desired.
Who prints online testing tickets? Proctors or Coordinators can print test tickets for online testing.
Accessibility and Accommodations
Audio is only a component of students assigned text-to-speech in
Is text-to-speech a universal accommodation?
PearsonAccessnext.
Text-to-speech does not include directions on the online version of
Can text-to-speech be utilized for the online directions? the assessment. Student who need directions read aloud must
utilize a human reader.
Text-to-speech is available for Language/Writing and Math (all
What grades can utilize text-to-speech? grades), as well as Science (grades 5, 8, 10), and Reading (grades
6-11).
Can human reader be utilized for the online test as opposed to text- Human read-aloud is an acceptable accommodation for the paper-
to-speech? and-pencil test only.
Technology
Information about technical requirements may be found in the
What devices/platforms will be supported for online testing? TestNav System Requirements on the TestNav 8 Online Support
page.
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Yes, it may be possible to offer the test via iPads. Information may
Can we test online using iPads? be found on the Set Up TestNav on iOS on the TestNav 8 Online
Support page.
Yes, it may be possible to offer the test via Chromebooks.
Can we test online using Chromebooks? Information may be found on the Set Up TestNav on Chrome OS
on the TestNav 8 Online Support page
The Local Infrastructure Trial (LIT) is located in the 2018-2019
admin in the PearsonAccessnext Training Site. Directions on how to
How do I complete a Local Infrastructure Trial? complete a LIT is located on the Technology Setup page of the
ISASP Portal. A LIT can be completed at any time but is
scheduled to begin February 3rd, 2020.
Schools experiencing error codes during the Local Infrastructure
Trial (LIT) should reference the TestNav Common Error Codes to
How do I know if everything went well during my Local resolve issues. If issues persist, please contact Pearson Customer
Infrastructure Trial? Support. If you have successfully completed the exercise without
receiving any error messages, you may assume your district is
ready to complete online testing.
ISASP’s testing platform and servers are designed to
next
Does TestNav and PearsonAccess have the capacity to handle accommodate as many concurrent Iowa users as may choose to
all the current users across the state? test on any given date. Districts may choose to test anytime during
the State Designated Testing Window.
Reporting
A calendar of events is in the Important Dates document on the
When will test results be reported?
Bulletins page of the ISASP Portal.
Student who respond to one or more questions on a test will
How many questions must a student answer to receive a score?
receive a score.
Students that have started (logged into a test) but will not complete
When should I mark an online test as complete?
testing should be marked complete. Students still in Ready status
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at the end of the testing admin should be removed from the
session.
DNR should be utilized for a student tests that had started testing
How is Do Not Report (DNR) used? Will my student receive an
but should not have tested. Tests marked as DNR will not receive
ISR if the test is marked DNR?
any score including an ISR.
The test session name will not limit the viewing or sorting of
student results. However, the Class Name listed on the student
How will the naming of test session impact the ability to view and
registration will determine the grouping and sort order of the
sort student data when it is received?
Student Roster. If no name is listed students will be sorted by
grade and subject.
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