Compare and Contrast - GED Testing Service

Compare and Contrast:
The GED ® Testing Landscape
Today and 2014

Session objectives
• Charting the Transition to January 2014
• Compare and Contrast Four Key Issues of Transition
– Test Delivery
– Test Center Environment
– Roles and Responsibilities
– The Rights to the GED ® Test, Test Content, GED ®
Test Scores and Test-taker Data
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The Transition: Where we’ve been
• Two Years Ago: July 2010
– Announced Intent to move to CBT
• One Year Ago: July 2012
– Announced timeline for implementation
• Eight Months Ago: November 2011
– First GED ® Test on Computer delivered
• Today
– Eighteen (18) states deliver the GED ® Test
on Computer
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Transition: Where we are going
2011-2013
Offer PBT & CBT
January 2014
GED ® Testing on
Computer
70 Years
Paper-based Testing
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Transition: The next 18 months
• Transition to GED ® Testing on Computer will occur in:
– 32 States (11 committed to Q3; 21 yet to set a date)
– 8 Insular Areas
– 13 Canadian Provinces
– 7 Military/Corrections/Special Sites
• The time is now!
– Decisions to move forward must happen sooner rather
than later to be ready for 2014
– Approvals take time
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Transition: January 2014
• The work has begun
• There is much to be done…
• And limited time to complete the
process
• Adult learners are depending on
us to ensure a pathway to earn a
credential in January 2014
• Seize the day—Seize the Future
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Key Transition
Issues
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Key Transition Issue: Test delivery
• Small, medium, or large groups
of test-takers
• Sign up for complete battery
• Test-takers move in unison
through the test day
experience
• Battery of tests administered in
one day or two half-day
sessions
• Small, medium, or large
groups of test-takers
• Sign up for content area test
• Test-takers move at their own
rate through each content
area
• Content area tests are taken
according to the test-takers
schedule and availability of
appointments
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Key Transition Issue: Test Center
environment
• PBT delivery to CBT
– Infrastructure change is key
factor
– Moving from classroom
settings to classrooms with
computers or other locations
with computers that can be
accessed
– Location, location, location
• Existing PVTCs
– Existing infrastructure
– Challenge may be to
increase the number of
seats with the addition of
the GED ® Test
– Location, location, location
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Key Transition Issue: Roles and
responsibilities
The GED Administrator TM
“The chief administrative officer at each respective
jurisdiction designates a GED Administrator TM who is
directly responsible for the operation, management, and
secure administration of the GED ® testing program in
cooperation with authorized PVTCs throughout the
jurisdiction.”
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