Capacity Planning for Online Assessments

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments

• Doug Kosty
• Assistant Superintendent, Assessment and
  Information Services
• Oregon Department of Education

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
Agenda

• Focus Areas of Online Assessments
• Oregon Assessment Environments
• State perspective
• Vendor perspective
• District/School perspective
• Discussion

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
Focus Areas

• Project Management
• Quality Assurance
• Technology Infrastructure
• Training and Support
• Test Administration
• Scoring and Reporting
• Process Review and Improvement

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
OregonOverview

• Test Administration
• Schedules, maturity, opportunities
• TESA vs ELPA
• Technical Infrastructure
• DBI, Student Collections, Central Login
• Training and Support
• Regional Model

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
State

• Item Management
• Test Construction
• Data Management
• Contract Integration
• Peer Review Issues
• Security
• Help Desk

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
Vendor

• Project Management
• Security
• Stress Testing
• Constructed Response vs. Knowledge and Skills

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
District/School

• Standardization of Labs
• Impact on Instructional Technology
• Bandwidth
• Staff Training
• Security
• Data Analysis
• Assessment Literacy

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Capacity Planning for Online Assessments
Discussion

• Focus Areas of Online Assessments
• Oregon Assessment Environments
• State perspective
• Vendor perspective
• District/School perspective