Acronyms
MCAP
Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program
This vendor is used to assess students grades 3-12 in the subjects of English and Math, that are working toward a high school diploma
Pearson
If you need to order paper testing materials, this is the person you call
Anthony Walters
This Assessment Replaced the HS MISA
LS MISA
This person handles testing investigations for Baltimore City Public Schools
Darryl Smith
TA/TE
Test Administrator/Test Examiner
This vendor used to measure progress but now is cog in the high school assessment machine. There is such a science that governs what students need to graduate
Cognia
This form is used to track the distribution and receiving of secured testing materials between a STC and Test Administrator
Chain of Custody Form
This assessment has an educator portal named after a popular children's toy
Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment
If you are worried when test monitors visit your school, this person sends them
Denise Taylor
DLM
Dynamic Learning Maps
This vendor has assessments in all four of the major subject content areas and yearly has at least two testing windows
Pearson
An unsecured testing material that is essential to test coordination and administration. At the end of testing these may be recycled
Test Coordinator Manuals and Test Administration Manuals
This assessment was a field test in Spring 2022
Social Studies 8
The School Test Coordinator (STC) is to submit this form whenever a local test security violation or test administration procedural deviation from local test policy takes places
Baltimore City Public Schools Testing Incident Report Form
ISR
Individual Student Report
This vendor is a part of a consortium, has a secure portal, an assessment management system and has an assessment that measures students growth from BOY to EOY
WIDA
Complete this commonly used phrased that is repeated by the assessment specialists during training for Access for ELLs Testing Materials..."If it comes in the box..."
Send it Back in the Box
This assessment has four domains and attemptedness criteria
WIDA: ACCESS for ELLs 2.0
Not only do STCs have to upload a testing schedule for their school on the STC site, there are assessments that require STCs to complete a scheduling tool named
itempra
WIDA
World- Class Instructional Design and Assessment
This vendor is used to assess students in the content areas of ELA, Math and Science that are not working toward a high school diploma
Dynamic Learning Maps
Bill of Lading
This state assessment is given to students in elementary, middle and high school students at least once a year
MCAP ELA & MATH
The full name of the form that is used to identify that an STC, Test Administrator and/or Test Examiners have been trained
Test Administration and Certification of Training Form and Non-Disclosure Agreement