Manage Assessment Publications

An assessment publication is a group of tests that are administered during a specific testing window. For example, CAI may be contracted to provide 20 tests by subject or a combination of subjects for the spring 2025 administration for a specific client. These 20 tests and their specifications constitute a publication.

The publication drives the configuration file that is provided to TDS for administering tests to students.

Note: The test list itself is created in the FlightPlan system. When creating a publication, ITS retrieves the test list from the FlightPlan system and then specifies the other attributes. For information about the FlightPlan system, please refer to the FlightPlan Guide.

Table 7 lists the tasks involved in creating a publication.

Table 7: Tasks Involved in Creating a Publication
Task	Team Responsible	Description
Creating a New Publication	Content Operations team	The Content Operations team can create a new publication.
Setting Item Properties	Content Operations team	The config Item Properties tab allows a user to include additional item attributes in the config file. These can include any attributes in the ITS item bank. The Content Operations team determines this set of item properties based on the requirements of the Psychometrics (Tech), Analysis, and Reporting teams. The IAT attributes ItemType, ScoringType, and Interaction are always automatically included in a config.
Managing Tests	Content Operations team Configuration team	The Content Operations team can populate tests to a publication from any FlightPlan batches that are signed off through the publishing step, and share the client, season, and year attributes of the ITS publication. The Content Operations team also manages test specifications (blueprint constraints, affinity group constraints, proficiency levels, and more) that define all test-level attributes in the config. The Configuration team sets virtual test length, if any.
Managing Cover Pages	Content Operations team	The Cover Page tab allows the Content Operations team to add cover pages to items and tests.
Managing Configurations	Content Operations team	The Content Operations team manages all configurations that are generated from a publication in ITS. The Content Operations team organizes all config files from a given publication, and any associated reports (validation files, compare files, and other ancillary documents) in folders on ShareFile.
Generating Configuration Reports	Content Operations team	The Content Operations team can optionally generate configuration reports that provide certain data from the configuration file. The user must select a specific config ID and a configuration report template in order to generate the report.
Viewing Simulation Data and Updating from Simulation	Psychometrics (Tech) team	The Update From Simulation tab allows psychometricians to review the updates pushed (or published) from CAI’s simulator tool, and to apply those updates.