ETS Assessment Management System Provides Standardized Platform to Manage Statewide Assessments


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ETS Assessment Management System Provides Standardized Platform to

Manage Statewide Assessments

PRINCETON, N.J., April 14, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Educational

Testing Service (ETS) and ETS-owned Computerized Assessments and

Learning (CA&L) have received IMS Accessible Portable Item ProtocolT

(APIPT) conformance certification for ETS's Test Operations Management

System (TOMS) and the CA&L Test Delivery system. This certification

ensures that tests delivered on computers are accessible to the

greatest number of students possible.

The two assessment systems were certified through the IMS Global

Learning Consortium's inaugural APIP Conformance Certification

Challenge. The challenge was designed to ensure that the various

e-assessment products, systems and items that are developed will have

a high degree of interoperability and accessibility when they are

deployed in the field.

"The Test Operations Management System is a tool that we created for

ETS's K-12 Testing Programs," said Daniel Wakeman, ETS Vice President

and Chief Information Officer. "The system has a wide range of

capabilities and is used to manage statewide assessment systems across

the country."

"One of the system's wide-ranging features includes its enhancements

to support APIP Personal Needs Profiles," said Gary Driscoll, Senior

Strategic Advisor, Information Technology, ETS. "These enhanced

features include the ability to import, review, update and export APIP

Personal Needs Profiles in a straightforward and reliable manner. This

makes it easier for educators to quickly and reliably address the

needs of their students."

The CA&L Test Delivery system is a flexible testing platform that can

support multiple question types and incorporates a number of built-in

accommodations. Some of the easy-to-use accommodations that are

available to students include auditory support, in which the computer

reads test questions to students; the ability to access

color-adjusting tools to make the screen easy to read; and a

magnification mechanism to enlarge assessment content for students

with visual impairments.

In addition to certifying the TOMS and CA&L Test Delivery system's

compliance with APIP Standards, the IMS Global Learning Consortium

also entered the two systems as finalists in the in the upcoming IMS

Learning Impact Awards competition, which will be held during the 2014

Learning Impact Leadership Institute gathering in Louisiana later this

year.

For more information about TOMS, please contact Fred Manno, ETS

Business Technology Liaison, at fmanno@ets.org. To view the TOMS

demonstration video, click here.

For more information on the CA&L Test Delivery system, please visit

https://caltesting.org/. To view the CA&L IMS APIP demonstration

video, click 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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