Required Information
The STAIRS/Appeals process requires the following information from coordinators:
- Date of the incident
- School name
- Grade level or grade span affected
- Test name
- Users with designated ELPAC roles can select Initial ELPAC, Summative ELPAC, Summative Alternate ELPAC, or Initial Alternate ELPAC.
- Users with designated CAASPP roles can select CAA, CAA for Science, CAST, CSA, and Smarter Balanced.
- Test type or domain (The selections for this drop-down list are dependent on the test name selected.)
- Smarter Balanced
- ELA—PT
- ELA—CAT
- ELA—Special Version/Emergency Form
- Math—PT
- Math—CAT
- Math—Special Version/Emergency Form
- CAST
- Science
- Special Version/Emergency Form
- CAA
- ELA
- Mathematics
- CAA for Science
- Life Sciences
- Earth and Space Sciences
- Physical Sciences A
- Physical Sciences B
- Initial or Summative ELPAC
- Reading
- Listening
- Speaking
- Writing
- Initial or Summative Alternate ELPAC
- N/A
- Smarter Balanced
- Test delivery or score entry
- The field for Online or Paper–Pencil for the Smarter Balanced, CAST, and any ELPAC will auto populate.
- Type of testing issue, which is listed in the Testing Incident Types topic
- Total number of students involved in this incident
- SSID(s) for the student(s) involved, when the testing incident type requires an SSID
- A brief description of the incident
- The description should contain additional information about the case and not just restate the testing issue selected on the previous screen(s).