Correcting DEI Entries

If a student’s score or response has been entered incorrectly and submitted in the DEI or if an irregularity occurred and the TE must retest the student, the user will need to request to have the DEI for the assessment reopened or reset by submitting a STAIRS case. The LEA ELPAC coordinator or site ELPAC coordinator is responsible for submitting a STAIRS case.

For both the Initial ELPAC and the Summative ELPAC, the STAIRS case must be completed in TOMS, and the testing issue, “The test examiner made an error when entering information into the Data Entry Interface, or the test delivery system (in the student interface), or there was a change in the ELAS status as a result of the [Initial or Summative] ELPAC assessment, or the student’s(s’) test in the DEI needs to be removed for some other reason (Data Entry Issue),” should be selected. The LEA ELPAC coordinator or the site ELPAC coordinator can then choose between the following options, depending on the situation:

• Reopen the assessment in the DEI if only one or a few of the student’s scores or responses need to be corrected and resubmitted.
• Reset the assessment in the DEI if
  • all of the student’s scores or responses need to be reentered in the DEI (Note, however, that this option will remove all of the previously entered scores or responses.);
  • the TE did not enter the scores for the Speaking domain in the DEI in real time and cannot determine scores from voice-capture; or
  • the scores or responses entered in the DEI belonged to a different student and the entries in the DEI were either started or completed.

Once the assessment has been reset or reopened, the user can log on to the DEI, correct the score(s) or response(s) that were entered incorrectly, and submit the assessment.