04/30/08
12:06 PM

STAR Update

Dear Principals and/or STAR Test Site Coordinators:

Mathematics test questions 50 (page 60) and 51 (page 61) in Version 14 of the California Mathematics Standards Test for Grade 7 contain answer choice letters that do not match the answer document. The answer documents are correct. No other versions of the test are impacted.
Before administering the test, test examiners should instruct students who have version 14 of the Grade 7 mathematics test to change the option letters in the test booklet for these two items. Attached are the instructions to distribute to your test examiners.
 
Please note that questions 50 and 51 in the Version 14 test booklet are field test items and will have no impact on student scores.

* Note: This correction page is also on our "Files to Download" page.
 
Thank you.

STAR Update

Dear Principals and/or STAR Site Test Coordinators:

The Pre-ID peel-and-stick late labels and demographic guides for schools on a TRADITIONAL calendar are ready for pick-up in Annex 3, beginning TODAY, Thursday, April 24, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily. The late labels are for those students who enrolled in your school between February 8, 2008 and April 14, 2008.  The demographic guides to be used to hand-grid the answer documents are for students enrolled between April 15, 2008 and April 23, 2008.  

The following schools do not have late labels and demographic guides: Benchley/Weinberger, Bird Rock, Cabrillo, Fletcher, Green, CPMA, McGill, San Diego Cooperative, Longfellow, Muir, and SCPA.

If you have any questions regarding your late labels or demographic guides, please email me or Denise Ormsbee at dormsbee@sandi.net.

Thank you.

STAR Update

Dear STAR Site Test Coordinators for TRADITIONAL calendar schools:
 
It was just brought to our attention that page A-52 in the Annotated STAR Coordinator Manual (astro bright red cover) is a duplicate of page A-50.  Please remove page A-52 from the manual and replace it with the attachment.  I apologize for the confusion.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
 
Thank you.

STAR Update

Dear STAR Coordinators,
 
The PowerPoint presentations from the Nuts & Bolts trainings for traditional schools have been posted to our website:  http://www.sandi.net/testingunit/download.html. There are two different PowerPoint presentations- one for Elementary (Grades 2-8) and one for Secondary (Grades 7-11).   Feel free to download the presentation and modify it for your trainings with site staff.

Happy Testing!

04/16/08
10:00 AM

STAR Update

Dear Principals and/or STAR Coordinators:
 
At the STAR Nuts & Bolts trainings, you may have received a gray envelope containing a roster of CAPA students who were misidentified in the initial Pre-ID file.  New Pre-ID labels have been generated and placed on blank answer documents for these students.  The correct answer documents are now available for pick up from Annex 3 anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday though Friday.  The old, incorrect answer documents for these students should be pulled, VOIDED, and returned in your NONSCORABLE materials.

If you did not receive a gray envelope, you do NOT have any students that were misidentified.  If you attended the Nuts & Bolts training, yesterday, April 15th, you should have received your correct answer documents at the meeting.

If you have any questions you can contact me or Denise Ormsbee at:
(619) 725-7059 or dormsbee@sandi.net.

04/11/08
10:21 AM

STAR Update

Dear Principals and/or STAR Site Coordinators:
 
Rosters for students that may be eligible to take the Standards-based Test in Spanish (STS) will be mailed out to sites today.  You should receive your STS rosters in school mail by the beginning of next week with instructions.  Those of you who attended the Nuts & Bolts Training yesterday, April 10th, already received your rosters.
 
As a reminder, all Spanish-speaking English Learners in grades 2-7 that have been enrolled in a school in the US less than 12 months or are receiving instruction in Spanish must take the STS.  

Please contact me or Denise Ormsbee at (619) 725-7059 if you have any questions.

04/01/08
3:31 PM

STAR Update

Dear Principals and/or STAR Site Test Coordinators at 4x4 Schools:
 
As you know, STAR testing is right around the corner and we need your help to verify counts for the California Standards Tests (CSTs) in mathematics and science.  Students in schools on a 4x4 schedule who will have completed two mathematics courses or two science courses during the school year- one during the fall semester and one during the spring semester- will take the CST for math or science for the course being completed during the spring semester.  For example, if a student at your school completed the year-long course of Algebra (Algebra 1,2) during the fall semester and is currently taking the year-long course of Geometry (Geometry 1,2), they should take the Geometry CST.
 
Attached are two spreadsheets- one for math and one for science- that include the counts for each CST by grade level (based on graduation year/”class of”) by school.  Please review the counts for your school and compare them with your records.  Please note that the course for Algebra II (listed in spreadsheet) is Intermediate Algebra for SDUSD students.

* These spreadsheets are also available on our "Files to Download" page of website.
 
Notify Denise Ormsbee at dormsbee@sandi.net or (619) 725-7059 if the numbers we have listed are incorrect.  We might need to submit a supplemental order for your school and need to do so ASAP.  If we do not hear from you be next Wednesday, April 9th, we will assume your counts are correct.

Thank you for your assistance.