30DOE-S2100 Bid_Q_and A answered~1.pdf

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1 NOCTI School Year 2021-22 Is the vendor required to provide end-of-program technical assessments for programs of study that are identified as SY 2021-22 being the last year offered, even though students enrolled in the program will be allowed to continue through the 2023-24 school year?

Yes. Students will be completing programs of study in 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years who would need end-of-program and workplace readiness assessments.

2 NOCTI Bids ? Are vendors required to submit two separate responses for each scope of work? Yes

3 NOCTI Upload Assessments Does Nevada have assessments that have been developed that they want uploaded into another platform for delivery?

No. Any assessments that Nevada has developed in the past belong to the previous assessment vendor.

4 NOCTI Assessment Development Do new assessments need to be developed?

If a vendor does not have a technical assessment aligned with a CTE program of study, a new assessment will not need to be developed during the course of this contract period.

5 NOCTI Standard Assessments Is Nevada hoping to use standardized assessments, provided there is alignment to the state standards? Yes

6 NOCTI Performance Assessments Is Nevada looking only for multiple-choice assessments or is there interest in performance-based assessments too?

Interest in performance-based assessments as well as multiple-choice assessments.

7 NOCTI Academic Standards If standardized assessments are used, does the vendor need correlate the content to academic standards?

Correlation can occur in collaboration with the vendor and the Department of Education.

8 NOCTI Program of Study How often are the Nevada programs of study updated?

Standards are currently in the process of being revised from 3-year course sequences to 2-year course sequence. After the current revision process is completed, a review process will occur between 3 and 5 years depending on the CTE program of study.

9 TWITHEE Program Area How may program areas will have technical skills assessments for SY 22-23 and SY 23-24?

Up to 74 programs of study depending on the assessments the vendor has available. Some program assessments may be for 2-year sequences and 3-year sequences based on Department of Education standards revision processes.

10 TWITHEE Proposal Formatting What format do you want the proposal written in? Narrative, paragraph form or more of a checklist/bulleted version? It can be a combination.

11 LCOPE2UT Online Proctoring Is online proctoring as a service, or a technology solution to facilitate online proctoring required?

How will the candidates taking these exams be supervised/watched during the exam?

Students take assessments in-person at their school site. There is potential for virtual assessments based on state/district COVID guidelines.

12 LCOPE2UT Exam Infrastructure Are these exams being delivered locally via CTE infrastructure, testing centers (if so, is there a testing center network?) or will candidates need to provide devices themselves? At the school site.

13 LCOPE2UT Technical Requirements Can you define requirements for ?lockdown? browser? Students can only access the testing site via the web and do not have access to other websites while completing the test.

14 LCOPE2UT NDE Bighorn Portal Is the NDE Bighorn Portal the registration system we can integrated with, or do we need to provide a registration system as well?

Bighorn is NDE's secured portal for transferring data. A separate registration system would be preferred.

15 LCOPE2UT Technical requirements Are there technical requirements/limitations that would prevent Caveon from successfully integrating Scorpion using APIs and Webhooks? No.

16 LCOPE2UT Software Development Does NDE have staff/allocated resources to perform any necessary development work for integration that may fall outside of the scope of the RFP? No.

17 LCOPE2UT CRALEO Can we get an example of the assessment results file that CRALEO expects? Attached is an example of the results file that CRALEO expects.

See attachment "Results_File_Layout_2122".

18 LCOPE2UT Item Development Does the NV DOA require item development through this solicitation, or will existing items be available to administer?

No existing assessments items will be available. State standards of CTE programs of study are posted on the Nevada Department of Education website.

19 LCOPE2UT Exam Registration Does the solicitation require the test delivery tool to create test sessions or registration capabilities? Yes.

20 LCOPE2UT LMS Does the NV DOA have an LMS that can be integrated into an online delivery platform? No

21 KACYKISH RFP page 2, Section 2.4.2 RFP page 2, Section 2.4.2. Is a requirement of the RFP that the employability assessment provide an opportunity for students to earn a nationally recognized career readiness certificate?

Employability assessments must be recognized by Nevada businesses and industries.

22 KACYKISH RFP page 6, Section 7.2.3

RFP page 6, Section 7.2.3. Given the anticipated contract start date is October 11, 2022, but this is for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school-years, please clarify what the desired testing windows are (e.g. two weeks in December, two weeks in April) or if students will be testing throughout the school year.

Test Window: Monday, February 6 - Friday, March 17, 2023 Retake Window: Monday, April 10 - Friday, April 21, 2023

23 KACYKISH RFP page 6, Section 7.2.3 RFP page 6, Section 7.2.3. Would the State consider extending the due date for proposal submissions from August 16 to August 19? No

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24 KACYKISH RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.E

RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.E. In the Goals and Objectives Section the requirements indicate that the qualified vendor must be able provide accommodations (i.e.., extra time, text-to-speech, enlarged graphics, four function calculator). Please confirm if large print or Braille are required as paper accommodations?

No. Assessments should be online.

25 KACYKISH RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.A

RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.A. The RFP requires online assessment delivery. Will the state offer paper delivery of the assessment for any schools that do not have the capacity to test online or that choose to deliver the assessment on paper? If so, what percentage of the 16,000 students should we assume will test on paper?

No. Assessments should be online.

26 KACYKISH RFP page 10, Section 11.2 Technical Proposal.

RFP page 10, Section 11.2 Technical Proposal. Please clarify in which section of the Technical Proposal (i.e., A-G) the following RFP requirements from pages 2-5 should be responded to:

2.5 Goals and Objectives, 3 System Requirements, and 5 Vendor Documentation.

They should follow the order of the RFP.

27 KACYKISH Employability Skills Assessment Scope of Work

Employability Skills Assessment Scope of Work. What are the content, validity, reliability, and evidence-based research requirements for the desired assessment? Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards (nv.gov)

28 KACYKISH Employability Skills Assessment Scope of Work

Employability Skills Assessment Scope of Work. Is the RFP for an employability assessment only, or is the State interested in aligned curriculum?

If the curriculum is part of the assessment and not purchased separately.

29 KACYKISH RFP page 4, Section 4.2 Cost Proposal

RFP page 4, Section 4.2 Cost Proposal. The RFP instructs vendors to use 13,000 students as the project student population for the Employability Skills Assessment and 16,000 students as the project student population for the Technical Skills Assessment. Aren?t all students who complete a CTE course of study required to take both assessments? Why is the projected number different?

Students may complete multiple programs of study will only need to take the employability assessment one time.

30 KACYKISH RFP page 2, 2.5.1.C RFP page 2, 2.5.1.C. Please clarify the number of test sites that will administer the assessments.

Approximately, 100 high schools have at least one CTE program of study.

31 KACYKISH RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.B RFP page 2, Section 2.5.1.B. The vendor will be responsible for conducting a review of state standards for assessment alignment. Can the State provide a copy of the specific standards that need to be measured for the Employability Skills Assessment?

Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards (nv.gov)

32 KACYKISH Career Readiness Skills Career readiness skills can measure academic and/or soft skills/professional skills. Please clarify the type of skills that need to be measured by the Employability Skills Assessment. NAC 389.555 Employability skills for career readiness.

33 KACYKISH RFP Employability Skills SOW 1.3.5 RFP Employability Skills SOW 1.3.5. A complete student results file from the testing administration. Please clarify if you want this to be a state data file or district level data files. The data must be available to NDE by the school/program level.

34 NOCTI Adopted procedures Is there a specific location on your website regarding the adopted procedures for State-administered assessments? Assessments Home (nv.gov)

35 KACYKISH Grade levels What grade levels are applicable to the 13,000 student population? 10th - 12th

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SCIENCE.COM Scope of Project

Do the requested assessments described in this RFP only serve a particular sub-set of the student population in Nevada? If so, can you please specifically identify that sub-set? Or does this contract anticipate a statewide implementation of these assessments for all middle and secondary school CTE students?

Students who have completed a CTE program of study as defined by the Nevada Department of Education.

https://doe.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/ndedoenvgov/content/CTE/Documents/Employability-Skills-for-Career-Readiness-STDS-ADA.pdf https://doe.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/ndedoenvgov/content/CTE/Documents/Employability-Skills-for-Career-Readiness-STDS-ADA.pdf https://doe.nv.gov/CTE/Assessments_Home/

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