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ETS's Test Operations Management System Wins Top Prize
PRINCETON, N.J., April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The IMS
Global Learning Consortium has announced that Educational Testing
Service (ETS) and ETS-owned Computerized Assessments and Learning
(CA&L) have received top marks for their submission of the
K-12-oriented Test Operations Management System (TOMS) in the IMS
Accessible Portable Item ProtocolT (APIP) conformance certification
challenge. ETS and CA&L will be presented with their platinum level
Learning Impact Award medals during an awards ceremony in New Orleans
this May.
The TOMS system is a statewide assessment management tool with a wide
range of capabilities that was developed for ETS's K-12 Testing
Programs. The system was entered into and certified as APIP compliant
through the e-Assessment Certification Challenge, which ensures that
computer-delivered tests are accessible to the greatest number of
students possible.
"ETS takes its mission to advance quality and equity in learning
worldwide through policy research and assessment development very
seriously," said Daniel Wakeman, ETS Vice President and Chief
Information Officer. "That is why we are thrilled to see IMS's
independent, third-party validation of our work to improve the TOMS
assessment management system."
The competition's evaluators included representatives from the
Minnesota Department of Education, the Maryland Department of
Education, the WIDA Consortium and WestEd. The panelists selected the
winners based on a number of factors, including success in achieving
conformance certification, features and functionality.
In addition to receiving the platinum level award for their work on
ETS's TOMS, CA&L will also be receiving a silver-level award for its
submission of the APIP-certified CA&L Test Delivery system.
For more information about TOMS, please contact Fred Manno, ETS
Business Technology Liaison, at fmanno@ets.org. View the TOMS
demonstration video here.
For more information on the CA&L Test Delivery system, please visit
https://caltesting.org/. View the CA&L IMS APIP demonstration video
here.
About ETS At ETS, we advance quality and equity in education for
people worldwide by creating assessments based on rigorous research.
ETS serves individuals, educational institutions and government
agencies by providing customized solutions for teacher certification,
English language learning, and elementary, secondary and postsecondary
education, and by conducting education research, analysis and policy
studies. Founded as a nonprofit in 1947, ETS develops, administers and
scores more than 50 million tests annually - including the TOEFL@ and
TOEIC @ tests, the GRE @ tests and The Praxis Series@ assessments - in
more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide.
www.ets.org
About Computerized Assessments and Learning, LLC Computerized
Assessments and Learning (CA&L), LLC, operates as an indirect, wholly
owned subsidiary of ETS. CA&L is an industry-leading computerized
assessment company based in Lawrence, Kansas. CA&L's adaptive testing
platform provides products and services to support instructional and
learning processes for K-12 education systems. CA&L provides online
formative, interim and summative testing for large-scale and local
assessment programs that meets or exceeds federal and state testing
requirements and produces valid and reliable results.
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