The federal Every Student Succeeds Act requires states to assess their learning standards for English language arts (ELA), mathematics, and science. Each state may also have a general assessment for the majority of its students, and an alternate assessment for the 1 percent of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. ESSA also requires that English learners be assessed in four domains (reading, writing, speaking and listening) each year until they reach proficiency.
Registrations within Test Day Toolkit have been restored. If you had impacted students, you should now see them in Test Day Toolkit. There are several steps that impacted schools will need to take to ensure that testing can proceed.
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Please print new sign-in tickets for all students. Although not all students were impacted, the most efficient way to ensure that impacted students can access testing smoothly is to print and use new sign-in tickets for all students.
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Some students may be unassigned from their testing room in Test Day Toolkit. While you may reassign students to testing rooms, you may also use the guidance linked
here to assign students to rooms on test day.
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Impacted students who had already completed the Digital Readiness Check will need to complete the exam setup steps again. This may be done in advance or on testing day. It should take approximately 5-10 minutes for PSAT 8/9 and 10-15 minutes for PSAT 10 and SAT. Students will be prompted to complete this after logging into Bluebook.
Use the guidance linked here.
College Board and ISBE recognize the additional burden this issue has created for impacted schools. We sincerely apologize. If you need additional support, please reach out to your designated College Board Illinois Boots on the Ground team member. Their contact information can be found at
https://www.isbe.net/Documents/BOG.pdf. -Posted 03/18/2024 at 3:45 PM
We have been made aware that there is an issue with the College Board Test Day Toolkit impacting districts across the country. College Board is working to resolve the issue. We will post related updates here as they become available. -Posted 03/18/2024 at 10:40 AM.