The vendor required to provide aligned assessment development and delivery platform to develop, maintain, and support a standardized assessment platform, integrated with artificial intelligence (ai) assisted scoring and data metrics delivery.
- Customized test development and delivery platform is to align department assessment standards, policies, and student data integration protocols.
- Goal is to develop rigorous, standards-aligned summative assessments that accurately measure student proficiency and growth across multiple content areas and grade levels, offering educators timely, formative insight into student learning and instructional needs throughout the academic year.
- Test development
1. Translations
• Spanish
• Arabic
• Vietnamese
• Cantonese
• Mandarin
• Tagalog
• Punjabi
• Korean
• Russian
• American sign language (asl)
2. Data management and delivery platform
• Ability for administrative users to view and edit student demographic information entered as part of the pre-identification process;
• Ability for administrative users to hand-enter student records prior to or at the time of testing;
• Capability to maintain both student-specific data fields and test-specific data fields;
• Capability for the test administrator to complete an electronic group information sheet and,
• Deliver student results through data delivery platform to the school district within one (1) week of the closing of testing window.
3. Test management
• Ability to be configured with various form distribution plans that result in school districts automatically receiving the appropriate assignment of test forms for given test administrations.
• Ability to randomly assign spiraled sets of test forms to students.
• Ability for administrative users with appropriate access to schedule students for online tests and generate necessary student login information prior to testing.
• Ability for administrative users with appropriate access to assign specific test forms and accommodations (e.g., large print test forms) to individual students.
• Ability for select authorized users to view aggregate test information by course or grade level and content area such as number of tests scheduled (by date), number of tests being administered (real-time), number of tests completed, number of scoreable tests completed, etc.
• Ability to assign unique login credentials for each test session.
• Independent scrolling capability for items which include a stimulus and response options or response area displayed side-by-side.
4. Testing interface
• Device-appropriate display of text and graphics for all students
• Ability for students to navigate the complete test (forward, backward, and skipping items)
• Ability for students to mark an answer using a pointing device or keyboard
• Ability for students to view the text or graphic simultaneously with the item stem and distractors when an item or set of items is text or graphic intensive online availability of any manipulatives (including, but not necessarily limited to calculator, spell check, graphing tools, dictionary, thesaurus, measurement tools, electronic annotation, formula charts, and scratch paper) as indicated in test blueprints
• Indication (on the workstation display) of the name of the student login used to access the test
• Ability to accurately match student data in the event that it is necessary for a student to restart a test
• Online assessment delivery system should provide options to support common test-taking strategies including:
o Visually eliminating one or more distractors
o Highlighting and underlining key words or graphics
o Flagging items as incomplete or in need of review prior to completing the test
o Using online “scratch paper” with text and drawing capability.
- Contract Period/Term: 1 year
