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Technology Use by Students

District testing coordinators are required to have procedures in place to prevent student use of personal electronic devices during assessment administrations. When districts test sessions. Personal electronic devices include, but are not limited to, cell phones, smart watches, smart glasses, or any similar device. When students are using allowed or approved technology, including technology-based accommodations (i.e., designated supports and accessibility features), the following guidelines for test security and validity must be followed in reviewing the technology prior to its use during an assessment.

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• be set in a mode that locks the user into a specific software program; and

• block the user from accessing functionality or features that may violate test security, such as:

  • the ability to send secure test assessment content (e.g., messages, captured images, videos);

  • the ability to send or receive any person-to-person communication about secure test assessment content (e.g., chat, video); and

  • the ability to save secure test assessment content.

District testing personnel must ensure that applications on a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer do not provide functionality that compromises the curriculum assessed.

Use of Chromebooks

It is essential that technology staff ensure that any accessibility features used on Chromebooks for other assessments, such as the SAT, are disabled before students use those Chromebooks to take assessments in the Test Delivery System (TDS) for the Texas Assessment Program. Because assessments in TDS have built-in accommodations for students who are eligible for them, failure to disable external accessibility features may result in students receiving accommodations they are not eligible for, which is a procedural testing irregularity.

Technology Use by Educators

Although test security and confidentiality are a high priority, nothing in these Coordinator Resources or any other Texas Assessment Program publication shall prevent district staff from having access to communications infrastructure (e.g., standalone hardware, electronic devices, other telecommunications devices) during test administrations for the purpose of satisfying school safety standards.