Testing Integrity: Issues and Recommendations for Best Practice
Table of Contents SYMPOSIUM PANELISTS INTRODUCTION
What are the benefits of a test environment management system?
This leads to improved productivity, ability to automate the process of test data refresh, limit test run downtimes, enhanced test coverage, and better traceability within the testing process. It will make it the single point of contact and accountable for test environment management, eliminating problems associated with shared ownership.
What is a centralized test environment management?
A centralized test environment management ensures the availability of all required information to the stakeholders and end users: test environment schedules, release plans, recovery procedures, solution documents, incidents, and status reports.
What is a test environment?
A Test environment is a dedicated setup or infrastructure where software testing activities such as smoke test, regression test, new feature test, and issue verifications for bug fixes would take place. It is an isolated and well-managed environment created to replicate the production environment or specific conditions required for testing.
What are the best practices for a test environment?
To ensure you have a great test environment, there are some best practices you should follow, like setting clear goals, using automation to set it up, having standardized configurations, making sure security is tight, doing regular maintenance checks, and having a plan for how changes should be handled.
Testing Integrity Symposium Issues and Recommendations for Best Practice
Table of Contents SYMPOSIUM PANELISTS INTRODUCTION
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Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy University of Michigan
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James Liebman
Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Law Columbia University Law School
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Lou Fabrizio
Director of Data, Research and Federal Policy North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
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Scott Norton
Strategic Initiative Director, Standards, Assessment, and Accountability Council of Chief State School Officers
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Carswell Whitehead
Test Security Director Office of Testing Integrity, Educational Testing Service
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Bob Wilson
Partner Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC Note: The views expressed in this document are those of parties outside the U.S. Department of Education and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department. The information, which is provided as a service to the general public, school officials, and educators, describes practices that may contribute
Introduction
Educators, parents, and the public depend on accurate, valid, reliable, and timely information about student academic performance. The availability of test data is important to improve instruction, identify the needs of individual students, implement targeted interventions, and help all students reach high levels of achievement. Testing irregular
Sources and purpose of this report
This report draws upon three sources of information about practices that support the integrity of test results: the opinions of experts and practitioners as expressed in the RFI responses, the comments and discussions from the Symposium, and, where available, policy manuals or professional standards published by SEAs and professional associations.
Section I. Prevention of Irregularities in Academic Testing
This section provides experts’ insight on the issue of preventing testing irregularities. It focuses on best practices and policies that SEAs and LEAs have implemented to prevent testing irregularities; barriers to implementing those practices and policies; and the role school culture plays in testing security.
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Keep testing windows short.
Panelists agreed that short testing windows (i.e., all students should be taking the test at the same time or close to the same time as possible) reduce the probability that testing booklets and other types of information such as test items will be shared inappropriately with students taking the test at a later time.
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Administer tests in controlled environments.
Tests should be administered in controlled and secure environments that limit access to curricular materials, resources, and other visuals that could aid students. Any resources that students could use as cues or triggers should not be present during test administration. Although such a practice would appear to be intuitive, Dr. Amrein-Beardsley c
Section II. Detection and Analysis of Irregularities in Academic Testing
This section describes how school officials can use different analyses to detect testing irregularities, how the results of these analyses ought to be interpreted, and whether and how different types of analyses can be used to complement one another. The discussion considers the uses and limitations of these methods. Build irregularity detection
Section IV. Testing Integrity Practices and Procedures for Online and Technology-based Assessments
In this section, participants address testing integrity practices and procedures as they relate to online and technology-based assessments. Because many academic tests are transitioning from traditional paper-and-pencil format to computer-based testing (CBT), panelists focused on how the responses to the questions in the preceding sections would d
Closing Comments
Federal, state, and local education decisions are based, in part, on the results of assessments. In order to ensure that they are making the best decisions, officials need assessment results that are valid, reliable, interpretable, and accurate. Although the vast majority of our nation’s educators would never participate in or excuse cheating, ch
Tony Alpert serves as the chief operating officer for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, where he oversees the fiscal operations of Smarter Balanced, collaborating with the State of Washington as the lead fiscal state; and provides expert guidance on assessment design and technology. Prior to joining Smarter Balanced, Alpert served as the
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in academic testing, and how these best practices might change for Recent news reports of widespread or suspected cheating on standardized tests in several address topics such as the “test environment, the interactions between the test
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