Sophisticated Item Bank Management:
- Real-time, single-source, XML-based, enterprise data management
- Web-services architecture for extensibility, such as integrating with AI scoring engines
- Unlimited hierarchically-structured metadata
- Full-text and boolean searches on any parameter and across item banks
- Incorporate any type of multimedia - includes complete document and
digital asset management - even student portfolios
- Style sheets can customize the look and feel
- Import/export any data via XML or CSV - including test results and
student demographic data as well as items and tests
- Unlimited item banks and fine-grained security to the data element
level
- Purchase and import content from a variety of vendors
- Basic web-based data management and also high-function,
professional
data management tools in administration console
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Detailed Feature List
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Item Development Tool:
- Security and workflow for multi-author environments
- Full Edit-History Tracking
- Field-test items online, calculate and store classic statistics. Export test results to other stats programs for further analysis. Import stats into item bank
- Upload multimedia, documents, and other associated materials
- High-function, professional data management console
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Item Development Overview |
Easy Test Creation Tool:
- Powerful search and view capabilities
- Test blueprint tools help generate new tests
- Test Analysis tools
- Download and edit in word processor for paper/pencil delivery
- Adjust scoring weight, feedback
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Basic
Guide for Teachers
Tutorial: Saving Modules for paper/pencil tests |
Easy Online Test Delivery:
- Dynamic shuffling of questions and choices available
- Browser-based or highly-secure testing (with browser look) for high-stakes
- Student work saved-as-they-go
- Instant or delayed feedback
- Test-day password available
- Customized test site and student demographic data
- Test-window dates
- Practice quizzes for self-assessment (data not saved)
- Put links to tests in course websites
- Nearly 508 compliant, 128-bit encryption, certified by Thawte
- Teacher-scored constructed response items, up to three independent scorers, including comment field
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Quick Testing
Guide
for Teachers
CCSSO~SCASS Science, Social Studies and Health Education Assessment
Projects use MetaCat for their web-based
assessment systems
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Students in Arkansas
taking a test with MetaCat
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Easy Dynamic Reporting:
- Secure reports for students, teachers, and administrators
- Dynamic disaggragation of student data by up to four levels for all
reports - student listings, summaries, item analysis, and comparison
- Comparison Reports for longitudinal reporting
- Summary reports subgouped by any available item descriptor, such as
national or state standards
- Item analysis with dynamic classical statistic calculations
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Sample Reports:
District: Item Analysis
by gender and school (names removed for privacy)
Classroom: Pre-Post Test Comparison
by HI Standards, grade level, and gender
School: Post-test Summary
by Concept/Topic
by gender and teacher (names removed for privacy)
District: Pre-Post Comparison
by gender and school (names removed for privacy)
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Data and Security Management:
- User/Group/Role-based security; 128-bit encryption, certified by Thawte
- Lock tests so proctors/teachers can only deliver the test, but not
edit
- Unlimited hierarchical test result security
(For example: state > district > school > teacher > student)
- Archive data for long-term storage and longitudinal reporting (student data, tests,
test results)
- Sophisticated, high-function, multi-windowed administration console
for managing item banks, document and media libaries, as well as access
permissions
- Provides web-based data collection and reporting for any type of data - including surveys
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 Administration Introduction |
Software and Hardware System Requirements:
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