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Appendix F: DCAS After-Testing Suggestions
When administering an untimed test, students will finish at different times. What students are
allowed to do while other students finish is a dilemma. Here is the DDOE’s list of recommended,
suggested and prohibited activities.
Activity
Leave the testing room and report
back to regularly scheduled activity
Leave the testing room and report
to pre-designated, monitored
holding area, with or without a
scheduled activity
Sit quietly in their seats
Read a preapproved book or preassigned material not related to the
tested subject
Write in a journal, diary, or on any
paper
Status
Recommended
Suggested
Allowed
Suggested
Prohibited
Listen to music on an iPod, etc.
Prohibited
Use a cell phone
Prohibited
Talk or signal to other students
Prohibited
Move about the testing room
Prohibited
August 2015
Rationale
Student instructional time is not
wasted
Students are engaged
This is difficult for many students
Quiet, not a major security risk
Security risk that students may
transmit item content
Electronic devices are not allowed
in the testing room
Electronic devices are not allowed
in the testing room
Too distracting to other students
and security risk
Too distracting to other students
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