Brigham Young UniversityIdaho Testing Center

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Brigham Young University-IdahoTesting Center

• What the Testing Center
• Can do for you
• For your Final Exam.

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BYU-Idaho Testing Center
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Testing Center Finals

• To use the Testing Center
• you must be approved by your Dean, and be on
  campus and available while your test is in the
• Testing Center.

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On-Line Testing

• We do On-line testing for on-line classes.
• On-line tests for face to face classes are
  provided at this time.
• Because of the stress of finals, if at all
  possible please close your on-line tests before
  finals begin.

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Test Center Testing

• Scheduling
• Delivery
• Period Open
• Pick-Up

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Test Scheduling

• Testing Center Finals must be approved by your
  Dean.
• When your class is approved the Testing Center
  will contact you.
• Your Dean has been given the number of tests that
  can be administered in the Testing Center for
  finals.

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Test Scheduling

• Please ask your students to come to take their
  tests administered in the Testing Center as early
  as they can.

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Test Delivery

• The test (digital or paper), key, and information
  sheet are to be delivered to the testing center
• As early as possible and
• No later than two weeks before the first day of
  finals.
• There will be
• NO RETAKES Administered
• During Finals

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Period Open

• We will schedule your Final for 2 or 3 days and
  try to close it on the last day your class is to
  meet.
• We ask that you be available to do in class
  Testing for problems that might occur.
• Honor Code issues
• Test Question problems
• etc.

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Pick-Up

• Finals Test results and reporting will be
  available for pick-up the day after your test
  closes after 1100am.
• Saturday following finals from 1100 to 100.
• Write-On partial test pickup is OK.
• We can provide you with an ASCII file with scores
  and responses by request.

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Classroom Batch Testing

• When Available
• Scheduling
• Marking a Batch Sheet
• Batch Test Scoring
• Merged
• Non-merged
• Batch Test Reporting
• Surveys

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Batch Testing

• This can be done all year.
• Pick up blue (batch) answer sheets
• No charge to the department
• Administer the test in class with answers and
  identification marked on the Batch sheet.
• Improperly marked sheets (NO Unique ID) and the
  sheet will not be scored.
• Surveys NOT AVAILABLE DURING FINALS

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Batch Scheduling

• No scheduling is necessary
• Just deliver to the Test Center Office when it is
  completed.
• Setup and scoring normally doesnt take long.
• Many can wait for results
• Depending on how busy we are.
• Examstat reports are delivered by email
  automatically when the test is scored.

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Batch Scoring

• Merged
• Batch scores attached to the Test Center student
  record.
• Testing history is maintained
• Reported in standard section reports, Examstat,
  and on the WEB page.
• Students can see their scores on-line.
• Non-Merged
• No history kept.
• Reported with Examstat. (paper if requested
  sorted by name only)

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Marking a Batch Sheet

• There are several fields on the blue sheet needed
  for processing.
• Name required
• There is space for the last name (14 characters)
• Unique ID required
• NetID or I-number (9 characters)
• A sheet without proper ID will NOT be scored!!!

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Individual scores

• When you have a test already running and give the
  test on a Batch sheet with proper setup the
  sheet can be scored and reported like a standard
  Red Test Center Sheet.
• Contact the Testing Center for help with this
  situation.

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Scoring a Batch Test

• Deliver the test to the Testing Center Office
  with the following
• Answer sheets
• All sheets facing the same direction (Cut
  Corners)
• Batch cover sheet (available on WEB)
• http//www.byui.edu/TestingServices/FrontPages/Han
  dBook.html
• Score Key

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Batch Score Reports

• Merged scores and Individual scores can be
  reported with all normal faculty reporting
  methods.
• Non-merged Batch scores will be reported in an
  alphabetical names list via Examstat and paper if
  requested.

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Surveys

• Surveys are just a batch score without a key.
• A printed Item Analysis is provided
• Shows the number of responses for every position
  of each item
• An ASCII file with the responses is available.
• Individual fields
• Name, Key, Non-obj, Id
• Each response is reported
• 0 9 A J
• The file is Tab, comma, or column delimited for
  transfer to a spreadsheet, stats package, or word
  document.