Teacher Teams

Teacher teams work together in Aware to create, co-edit, administer, and analyze the results of team tests, which function like school-level assessments. As a result, team tests must be assigned a test type. District-level managers can either create a new test type or enable school-level testing on existing test types. For more information on this topic, visit Creating and Configuring Test Types.

Districts can automatically create and manage teacher teams in Aware under Assessments Settings ( settings ). Generally, teachers should manage their own teams whenever possible. School administrators can help clean up old, unused teams, but they should rarely need to do so.

After creating teacher teams and a teacher test, teachers can share their test with anyone on their team to turn it into a team test. Once a teacher test becomes a team test, it cannot be reverted to a teacher test, so we advise teachers to create a copy of the test before sharing. To learn more about the process, visit Creating a Team Test.

Administration Tab for Team Tests

The Administration tab shows a few different options for teachers to manage for a team test.

#	Field	Description
1	Test Status	Shows one of three possible test statuses: Pending – Any team member can edit a team test while its status is set to Pending. Active – Team members can edit a team test until a member prints the answer documents or students begin taking the test online. Once either occurs, team members can only change correct answers, align learning standards, adjust item weight, and rescore. Archived – It’s best to archive team tests before the next school year. Archiving a test does not delete it or its data, but it does clean up unscored answer documents and prevents the test from being administered again.
2	Rescore ( score )	Queues the test for rescoring and, upon completion, sends an email to the team member who initiated the rescore, confirming whether rescoring succeeded or failed. Any team member can initiate rescoring the test at any time, particularly if they have changed learning standards, item weight, or performance levels; corrected an error in the test key; or resubmitted scores for data collection.
3	Delete Individual Test Entries ( delete )	Removes a test entry for an individual student. A team member might need to delete a student’s test entry if someone accidentally scans a paper answer document it prematurely or if a student submits an online test accidentally. Caution: Use caution when deleting test entries. After deleting, all previously-printed answer sheets will become invalid, and you will need to reprint new answer sheets. Printing new answer documents is not required for online testing.
4	Delete All Test Entries ( report_problem )	Removes test entries from all students. If a team member needs to change an element of the assessment, such as adding or removing a question, then they can delete all test entries to do so. By deleting all test entries, all student scores associated with the assessment are deleted. Caution: Use caution when deleting test entries. After deleting, all previously-printed answer sheets will become invalid, and you will need to reprint new answer sheets. Printing new answer documents is not required for online testing.
5	Available Dates ( event )	Allows the teacher team to set the testing window dates, where the test becomes available for teachers to administer to students. Teacher teams are required to establish Start and End Dates because they are meant to use team tests for common assessment purposes.
6	Print Sample Answer Document	Downloads a sample answer document for the test you can print, as long as there aren’t any interactive item types.
7	Upload Data Files	Allows team members to upload assessment data from an external system using a CSV file with student’s local IDs and responses to each question. Upload Data Files is available to teacher teams as long as the test in Aware does not have interactive item types. See Importing Test Scores for more information.
8	Filter by Monitor Group	Allows each team member to filter the team test to students in any monitor group they select. Each team member only sees students they have access to on district- and school-level monitor groups, as well as the personal monitor groups they have created.