WebXam staff members have been tracking testing counts carefully, as well as matching them with EMIS-reported pathway headcounts, and will have NO trouble finalizing to 40-item posttests for rescoring to match the 40-item pretests. Our logic for using existing pretests was that we were delayed in communicating that pretests are NOT available during a field testing year (after major revisions due to changes in technical content standards and course outlines).
Our final day of field testing is Friday April 26, and we plan to post student gain and rescored values to instructor accounts on Monday April 29. Local deadlines for reporting student gain are Wednesday May 1, so this allows submission of data.
The current counts for IT field tests, with ODE pathway head counts to the right, are below (green indicates enough test-takers to finalize now). Note that Cybersecurity will have pretests starting next fall.
Field Testing Counts as of 04/11/19
Course | Test-takers | ODE # |
145005 Information Technology | 902 | 22883 |
145010 Web Design | 599 | 3156 |
145025 Computer Hardware | 2381 | 4157 |
145030 Computer Software | 543 | 1931 |
145020 Computer and Mobile Applications | 249 | 735 |
145035 >Networking | 717 | 1991 |
145040 Network Operating Systems | 151 | 435 |
145045 Network Management | 135 | 227 |
145050 Network Security | 205 | 379 |
145055 Routing and Switching | 168 | 336 |
145060 Programming | 681 | 5592 |
145065 Object Oriented Programming | 312 | 509 |
145070 Visual Programming | 156 | 601 |
145075 Systems Analysis & Design | 44 | 206 |
145080 Database Administration | 40 | 128 |
145085 Database Applications Development | 41 | 144 |
145090 Game Design | 150 | 1013 |
145095 Design Techniques | 701 | 1674 |
145100 Creating and Editing Digital Graphics | 720 | 1597 |
145105 Multimedia & Image Management Techniques | 518 | 1274 |
145110 Video and Sound | 556 | 1533 |
145115 Animation | 297 | 710 |
145120 3D Techniques | 52 | 267 |
145125 Interactive Application Development | 63 | 148 |
146005 Cybersecurity (Plan B Complete) | 12 | 15 |
146015 Cybersecurity Testing and Response (Plan B) | 12 | 12 |
146010 Cybersecurity Defense and Reinforcement (Plan B) | 0 | 0 |
TOTAL | 10405 | 51000+ |