ABSTRACT
Moving from independent to integrated systems has been an exciting time of high expectations, rapid learning, and tremendous collaboration. In addition, the notion of Business Change Management has been introduced to enable us to make continuous, orderly and effective improvements to what are likely to be increasingly integrated systems and processes. Beyond the traditional usages of an item banking system, a critical first step in preparing for computer-based administration is preparation of item and test content for the computer. The Operational Enterprise System captures, generates, and retrieves data at all points of work and service in real time. The focus of improved processing has been in the area of unified data files, accomplished in conjunction with states' student information systems and involving considerable prework. Finally, one of the basic issues mentioned as pushing us toward integrated systems was the cycle of shipping, retrieving, scoring and data processing and analysis, and returning scored results.
