ONLINE TESTING

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ONLINE TESTING

• This year HCPS will test all middle and high
  school students online

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Issues to Review

• Standard Operating Procedure
• Test Nav
• Upcoming PEMS trainings

• Coding 101
• Advantages to online versus paper

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Numbers Dont Lie

• 40,915 Middle school SOL tests were given last
  year!!

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Standard Operating Procedure

• The SOP is a document that Research Planning
  and Technology draft together to make sure both
  departments are on the same page with online
  testing
• It provides a timeline with dates, duties and
  specific details on who is responsible for what

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SOP

• The SOP is drafted in January February and
  distributed to schools in March during Team
  Meetings
• Teams at each school include principal, STC,
  Trainer, AP, Backup for STC ITRT

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Test Nav

• Test Nav is the test delivery application that
  students use to take their test
• Test Nav emulates a web browser and connects only
  to the testing site

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PEMS Trainings

• There will be ample PEMS Trainings beginning in
  January to teach the online side of the system
• Counting test booklets and answer documents will
  be replaced with setting up online test sessions
  in PEMS

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• Middle High School Testing Training will be
  done at the same time for Spring so the CARS may
  assist
• Opportunities will be given in January and/or May
  for Middle School STCs to observe online testing
  at the high schools

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CODING 101

• All coding information is in the Student Data
  Upload (SDU) File Requirements.
• Coding 101 will be provided to help guide STCs
  in coding requirements

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Online Versus Paper Testing

• Online testing eliminates boxes and boxes of
  materials STCs must sort, count and disseminate
• Secure materials are test tickets rather than
  test booklets (these are printed ahead of time
  and distributed to teachers the day of the test)

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More Pros for Online

• Most of the work is done before testing so that
  once the tests are done, the main task would be
  coding accommodations and transfers. (rather
  than counting answer documents and test booklets
  and spending a few hours returning those
  materials to the R P Warehouse)

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The 1 Reason Online is Better

• Test Results are immediate for previously equated
  SOL tests
• Typically when a student submits his/her test in
  Test Nav, the scores are available within 10
  minutes
• If a test must be equated by the DOE, scores may
  take up to 3 weeks to come through (comparable to
  paper test score returns)