Everyone who works with the Montana Comprehensive Assessment System (MontCAS) statewide assessments, communicates test results, and/or receives testing information is responsible for test security. This includes:
Montana Office of Public Instruction (OPI) staff;
Authorized Representatives (or School System Superintendents);
System Test Coordinators (STCs);
Building Coordinators (BCs or School Principals);
Test Administrators (TAs or Educators);
Students, parents, and the community at large; and
Certified and non-certified public school staff.
Test security guidelines have been developed by the OPI to be used by STCs, Authorized Representatives/Building Coordinators, and TAs in order to maintain the integrity of all MontCAS assessments. The materials provided in this MontCAS Test Security Toolkit allow the STC (or presenter):
to facilitate a training session so TAs can be trained in Test Security for a standardized administration of the MontCAS statewide summative assessments.
to facilitate training at their own pace with guided one-hour increments or half day.
The MontCAS mission is “the program will have meaningful assessments that are of high-quality so data users have confidence these data are reliable and valid for accountability purposes and can be used fairly, and consistently over time.”
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