Overview of Test Rules and Navigation

This section provides instructions for educators to use when entering scores or student responses into the Data Entry Interface (DEI).

Note the following about DEI entry:

• Item score and response entries can be reviewed and edited before submitting the assessment.
• A score or response entry may be left blank for any of the assessments that must be entered into the DEI. If any of the scores or responses have been skipped—as indicated by a red triangle on the Data Entry Summary screen—return to those items and verify whether the item was intentionally skipped by the student. If not, enter the missing information before the assessment is submitted.
• If the Mark as No Response option is selected from the context menu, the answer choices are grayed out and cannot be selected. By deselecting the Mark as No Response option, the answer choices will be available for selecting again.
• Scores should be carefully entered and reviewed before submitting, as interim assessments cannot be reopened once submitted.
• The Manner of Administration automatically defaults to Standardized/Benchmark in the DEI. If the interim assessment was administered in a nonstandardized manner, educators will need to select Nonstandardized on the Review Test Settings screen in the DEI prior to entering a student’s scores.

Figure 1. Review Test Settings Screen