Vicki Black and Gayle Veltman will share how the Standards can be used to develop test center processes and procedures, or to evaluate what test centers already have in place.

This Webinar will review the current progress toward high stakes Device-Based Testing (DBT). The future use of hand-held computers and wireless communication devices for testing will be projected. The likely operational and economic impact of the emergence of DBT on the testing industry will be considered along with the implications for college testing professionals. Potential opportunities for NCTA to leverage its value-add on behalf of college testing centers in this approaching DBT reality will be explored.

This webinar will provide an overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) Law and principles of Universal Design as they apply to testing accommodations. The focus of the presentation will be a discussion of best practices in providing reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities in a college testing center

This webinar will discuss rural policy initiatives that are at work now and how those initiatives are impacting rural college testing centers. How can the use of a SWOT analysis, advisory boards and new partnerships foster the mission of the rural college testing network? We hope to answer these questions and more.

Test security requires not only vigilance on our part but also knowledge of religious/spiritual clothing and medical/disability related devices that may be new to us. These areas can present some questions from a test security standpoint. Presenters will provide an overview of clothing and selected practices related to Orthodox Jewish and Muslim spiritual tradition as well as an overview of selected medical, disability, and assistive technology-related devices (hardware and software) that NCTA mailing list members have named as concerns. Our ETS colleague will provide thoughts related to testing security within the context of an informed respect for tradition and needs. Participants will have time to pose questions, identify concerns, and share experiences relevant to the topic of this presentation.

The topic of test center satisfaction surveys appears regularly on the NCTA listserv. The Webinar Committee has put together two presentations that will cover both survey design and how to use the data collected through student/client/customer satisfaction surveys. These presentations are intended to be practical in nature and hope to provide coaching and basic skills that will allow NCTA members to develop their own surveys.

The topic of test center satisfaction surveys appears regularly on the NCTA listserv. The Webinar Committee has put together two presentations that will cover both survey design and how to use the data collected through student/client/customer satisfaction surveys. These presentations are intended to be practical in nature and hope to provide coaching and basic skills that will allow NCTA members to develop their own surveys.

This webinar will be a panel of testing administrators from four different schools who have recently been or are in the process of implementing new placement testing programs. These presenters have been closely involved with their campus leadership around implementing new language, mathematics, or English placement exams at the following schools: Harper College, Temple University, Purdue University- Calumet and University of Akron.

Representatives from three major, nationally available placement testing programs will present on what test developers want campuses to know about choosing and implementing a new placement testing system. These experts in test development will speak generally about best practices in test development and how that relates to choosing an instrument. While each represents a placement testing product, their focus will be on their knowledge of placement test development and how that relates to successful implementation of a new placement testing system on college campuses, regardless of which instrument or product your campus is using.