IT Field Testing & Student Gain Measurement: No Delays Anticipated

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+