CTECS is excited to start the new school year with you and accommodate your Technical Skills Assessment (TSA) and Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment (WRA) needs.
School Year 2024-25
New
This year, the WRA can be offered to non-CTE students at the district’s expense. See the following resources to get started:
- Link to CTECS Non-CTE page, to sign up and get started testing your students.
Focus Lock, a new test-security feature, implemented during SY2023-24. Please review for your students before they begin testing.
Again this year, you will be using just one E-SESS organization, Idaho CTE.
The School Term field will also be used again this year to help manage testing data and differing school terms. The field will contain either “semester” or “trimester.”
Please note that regardless of semester type, all schools will register their own students for pre-tests. IDCTE will register semester/yearlong students for the TSA/WRA post-tests and retakes. Trimester schools will register their own students all year for TSA/WRA post-tests and retakes.
Reminders
- Register annually (by Nov.) completing the Test Site Administrator Registration and Agreement form. A day or two after the form has been submitted, you will receive an email from [email protected] with login instructions. Note! If you do not have the password you used last year to access E-SESS, request a password reset from [email protected] or [email protected].
- Returning test site administrators have access to student testing data from previous school years. Just log into E-SESS and follow instructions to “Change Organizations.”
- When new test site administrators are added to E-SESS, they are sent an email message from [email protected] with a temporary password and instructions to create a new one.
- Please refer to the Educator Portal for the FAQs for Idaho-specific information.
- Menu options in the left column provide additional important details. Preparation for the administration of testing is a multi-step experience and requires processing time.
- IDCTE is your primary point-of-contact for Assessment and Student Registration Questions: Kyle Luchte 208- 429-5538, [email protected] or Heather Luchte, 208-429-5512, [email protected]
- You should only contact CTECS with technical issues during testing or with E-SESS.
- The testing process is set up for In-School Testing (IST) only. Contact Ken Potthoff [email protected], if you have questions about Fully Automated Testing (FAT).
Workforce Readiness Incentive (WRI)
- Pass the Workplace Readiness Assessment (WRA),
- Pass the Technical Skills Assessment (TSA), and
- Earn all SkillStack® sub-badges in their pathway.
Workforce Readiness and Career Technical Education (CTE) Diploma
Students that pass both assessments may also qualify for the Workforce Readiness and CTE Diploma.
Assessment Resources
- CTECS – Test Site Administrator and Proctor Guides
- See Educator Portal for:
- Assessment FAQs
- TSA Cut Scores and Capstone Courses in ISEE
- TSA Assessment Results–(statewide summary)
- Program Standards & Assessment Results
- Statewide Results for each Pathway
- Results by Standard for each Pathway
- Workplace Readiness and WRA Practice Test
SkillStack® Resources
- Transition Coordinators Contact Information
- Educator Video (Upload details helpful for trimester schools in March)
- See SkillStack® website for:
- Approver guide
- Lesson plan
- Student resources
- Poster
Certificates are available for SkillStack® badges, including assessment badges!
Click here to view the Idaho Testing Calendar
Assessment and SkillStack® Dates 24-25 School Year
Register annually (by November) for ongoing communication.
IDCTE uses ISEE data to create test tickets and rosters from October to March. Make sure ISEE data is accurate for grants and incentives. If your district has concerns with test tickets, please contact Performance Management.
Certificates are available for SkillStack® badges, including assessment badges!
NOTE: Assessment dates go through May 30, but Apr. 30 is the last day for incentive calculations.
Key:
TSA = Technical Skills Assessment
WRA = Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment
SkillStack®
TSA Test Titles with Passing Scores
Please click on the following link to go to IDCTE: TSA Cut Scores – Smartsheet.com. This link includes the capstone course, cut scores, and information on pilots and pre-tests.
- Tests for all programs are not yet available.
- Tests in Pilot stage are in development and participants are by invitation only.
For more information, please contact the Idaho Division of Career and Technical Education, Chet Andes, [email protected], Director of Program Quality, 208.429.5523
Privacy Policy
- what data we collect for the purpose of curricular instruction and testing AND how we collect it;
- how we use the data we collect;
- and finally, how we share AND protect personally identifiable information (PII) within the education testing environment involving students. (PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context).