Security Incidents and Appeals Process Overview

What’s New

• The verbiage and conditions in the Testing Incident Definitions chapter were updated.
• The verbiage in the Appeals Definitions chapter was updated.

Guide’s Intended Audience

The Security Incidents and Appeals Procedure Guide provides guidance for CAASPP and ELPAC LEA and site coordinators who file reports of testing breaches, improprieties, and irregularities, that are encountered during administrations for CAASPP summative assessments as well as ELPAC initial and summative assessments. STAIRS functionality is not applicable for any interim assessments.

Detailed, step-by-step instructions for submitting, reviewing, and withdrawing STAIRS cases and for searching for STAIRS cases and Appeals are found in the contextual help in TOMS as well as in the web-based TOMS User Guide. Refer to the STAIRS/Appeals chapter in the guide’s left navigation pane for additional information.