Montana school districts and the OPI work in partnership to ensure that all students are afforded the opportunity to participate in state assessments. School Leaders (Administrators), System Test Coordinators, Educators, and Families are critical partners to ensure all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging academic content standards. Expand each accordion to read more about the topic as it relates to district roles.

  • The OPI publishes guidance, provides technical assistance, and provides ‘just-in-time’ training to support school districts with the responsibilities for ensuring student achievement data are valid, reliable, and fair for the purposes for which state assessments are used. OPI’s test security requirements ensures that these state assessments are comparable for each purpose required under ESEA-ESSA and consistent with the relevant professional and technical testing standards (see 34 CFR 200.2(b)(4) and (5)).
  • MontCAS Test Security Manual: Describes the standardized test administration and test security procedures to be used by each accredited school.
  • Administrators, educators, families, and the public can learn more about this topic on the Test Security Guidelines page.
  • System Test Coordinators (STC) can access the STC Corner Site on the Test Security page to learn more about this topic.