AS part of the council’s strategies intent to move to e-testing effective in January 2017 examinations

cycle, a team of representatives from the Caribbean Examinations Council Participated in a study tour at
the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Global Institute.

On of the primary deliverables of the study tour was the development of the blueprint for the
implementation of e-testing in CXC participating Territories, the study tour provided an opportunity for
CXC staff to gain from experience and expertise of ETS that has been involved in electronic testing for a
number of years in different countries worldwide. Additionally, ETS Global Institute has been the
forerunner in training in e-testing and was therefore deemed the ideal host for the study tour. Intent
was for CXC staff to leverage the experience of ETS by identifying potential challenges that could arise in
this new testing environment and devising and implementing strategies to avoid these in it e-testing, as
well as to learn about those strategies that worked and to improve on them for the roll out of CXC;s e-
testing

During the ETS study tour, the CXC team was exposed to a number of areas that were identified as
critical to the successful implementation of e-testing by CXC, these include managing the transition from
paper and pencil test to e=test; security issue in implementation of e-testing; computer delivery model’s
of administration of e-testing, which covered areas such as supervision and security protocol/
requirements for e-testing centuries