SRA Guide
Adminstration of the SRA Performance Assessment Tasks

SECURITY
       SRA PATs are secure materials. They must be kept in a secure location and must be administered to students under secure conditions.
       Only the school or district SRA coordinator is permitted to maintain the complete set of PATs and to make copies of the PATs for individual student use.
       Any unauthorized duplication of the SRA PATs will have serious consequences for the school district.        The school or district SRA coordinator uses the HSPA SRA PAT Record of Copies form (Appendix C) to track and account for each copy of the SRA PATs, which are kept on file with other district documentation for a period of one year.
       Upon completion of all SRA assessments for the school year, the district must destroy the original set of SRA PATs (both HSPA and HSPT11) and all copies. While the New Jersey Department of Education may provide periodic reminders to this effect, the superintendent is responsible for assuring that these materials are disposed of securely each year.

AVAILABILITY OF PATs TO TEACHER
       Only the PAT that a student is scheduled to take should be released to the teacher who is administering the SRA.

NUMBER OF PATs WHICH MAY BE TAKEN
       Taking an SRA really means that a student takes PATs.
       PATs are designed for a particular cluster in a particular content area.
       A student may only take a particular PAT once.
       If a student is not successful on a specific PAT, additional PATS may be administered until the student successfully completes the required number of PATS for that content cluster.
       If the student is not successful on any of the available PATs for the cluster, then the district SRA coordinator should call the New Jersey Department of Education, Office of Evaluation and Assessment for further options (Appendix B).

ADMINSTRATION OF THE PATs TO THE STUDENT
       Most PATs can be completed in a single untimed session.
       However, if it is not possible for a student to complete a PAT in one session, the PAT may be broken into separate and distinct parts and given to the student in multiple sessions. For example, the persuasive passage might be given to the student on the first day. The student would be allowed to read the passage and make marginal notes or underline parts at this first session. At the end of the session, the passage would be collected and returned to the school SRA coordinator. The next day, the student would be given both the passage and the questions. Upon completion of the answers to the questions on the second day, the total package would be collected and processed for scoring. Under no circumstances may PATs leave the room during administration. Also, s
       Students must be proctored at all times while working on the PATs.

AFTER ADMINSTRATION OF THE PAT
       Both the copy of the PAT and the student's response must be returned to the SRA coordinator as soon as the student has completed the task.
       At no time should a copy of the SRA PAT be kept with the student's response nor should the student be allowed to copy the PAT onto their answer paper.