Part E: Adhere to Best Practices in Test Administration Question # Criteria Evidence 2.29 E.1 Maintaining Provide a comprehensive security plan with auditable policies and procedures for necessary test development, administration, score reporting, data management, and standardization and detection of irregularities consistent with NCES and CCSSO recommendations ensuring test for, at a minimum security: In order to Training for all personnel both test developers and administrators; – ensure the validity, Secure management of assessments and assessment data, so that no individual fairness, and gains access to unauthorized information; integrity of State test Test administration and environment; and results, the Methods used to detect testing irregularities before, during, and after testing, assessment systems and steps to address them. maintain the security Provide a description of how security safeguards have been tested and validated of the items and tests for tests and for paper-and-pencil tests, as relevant. as well as the answer documents and related ancillary materials that result from test administrations.
Part E: Adhere to Best Practices in Test Administration Question # Criteria Evidence 2.29 E.1 Maintaining necessary standardization and ensuring test security: In order to ensure the validity, fairness, and integrity of State test results, the assessment systems maintain the security of the items and tests as well as the answer documents and related ancillary materials that result from test administrations. Provide a comprehensive security plan with auditable policies and procedures for test development, administration, score reporting, data management, and detection of irregularities consistent with NCES and CCSSO recommendations for, at a minimum Training for all personnel – both test developers and administrators; Secure management of assessments and assessment data, so that no individual gains access to unauthorized information; Test administration and environment; and Methods used to detect testing irregularities before, during, and after testing, and steps to address them. Provide a description of how security safeguards have been tested and validated for tests and for paper-and-pencil tests, as relevant.
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