When the Examiner is transcribing a students answer to a constructed response question, should the Examiner punctuate and spell the words correctly?
When an Examiner is transcribing a student’s written responses for a statewide assessment, the Examiner is to copy the response exactly (punctuation and mechanics) as it is written by the student. While an Examiner/Scribe is recording oral or signed responses for a statewide assessment, the Examiner/Scribe should give a student these options: 1) a student may verbalize the punctuation and mechanics as he/she gives the answer to the Examiner or 2) a student may read the written response and indicate where and how to punctuate and use mechanics after he/she has given the answer or 3) a student may use a combination of options # 1 and #2.
