Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | 11:09 a.m.
Standardized testing in Nevada has been postponed for at least another day because of ongoing technical problems.
The Nevada Department of Education this morning said that Measured Progress, the company contracted by the state to deliver the computer-based Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC), advised the state not to resume testing until it could finish stress testing a new server.
Problems began Tuesday morning and stopped teachers from starting new tests. Students who were taking the test at the time of the outage were able to finish.
A spokeswoman for the department said the outage was due to a high volume of students in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota taking the test at the same time.
About 10 percent of Nevada’s third- through eighth-graders have taken the SBAC since the opening of the test window on March 30, according to the NDOE.
The test requires an Internet connection and a computer powerful enough to take the test.
This year marks the first time the tests have been rolled out in Nevada. Though they have previously been field tested, the assessments are now being taken by students in third through eighth grades.
The tests replaced the older CRT state tests and are designed to assess students’ mastery of Nevada’s new Common Core reading and math standards.
Measured Progress has been a state test contractor for more than 10 years, according to the NDOE.
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