Iowa Online
Available for K5–grade 12, online testing is ideal for schools who want to help students adjust to testing with today’s technology.
Academic Insights Bundles allow schools to use Iowa Assessments™, CogAT®, Survey Battery, and more to measure student growth throughout the year, any time they want, as many times as they want.
For more information on the process, visit our Getting Started page.
Benefits
More Reports
Fast Results
Less Stress
Pricing
Please call 800.845.5731 or email [email protected] to order.
One-Time Assessment
Choose Iowa Assessments or CogAT
$25/student
Includes:
- Complete Battery of Tests
- Online Test-Taking Tools
Required:
- DataManager Access (separate purchase)
Achievement Insights Bundle
$35/student
Includes:
- Complete Battery of Tests
- Multiple Test Uses for Each Student over the Course of One Year (July 1–June 30)
- Online Test-Taking Tools
Required:
- DataManager Access (separate purchase)
Abilities Insights Bundle
$40/student
Includes:
- Complete Battery of Tests
- Multiple Test Uses for Each Student over the Course of One Year (July 1–June 30)
- Online Test-Taking Tools
Required:
- DataManager Access (separate purchase)
Datamanager Access & Training
$600
This one-time fee includes training costs and the added security of personalized service through Testing & Evaluation.
Includes:
- Unique login and anytime access for each test administrator to DataManager student reports and digital resources.
- Training (about two hours)
- Learn how DataManager works.
- Learn to create and proctor test sessions.
- Learn to generate custom reports.
- Reporting
Required:
- DataManager Access (separate purchase)
*Required for online testing
Technology Checklist
- Run the System Check, Network Evaluation, and Bandwidth Check to make sure your devices can handle network traffic across normal bandwidth fluctuations. For more information, review system requirements for online testing (PDF).
- Download a secure browser.
Online Testing School User Agreement
FAQs
General
DataManager is the platform through which the Iowa Assessments and CogAT are offered.
First-time users order 5-6 weeks ahead, and returning users order 4 weeks ahead. See above for more details.
For schools purchasing tests from BJU Press, the school administrator will be required to sign the Online Testing School User Agreement stating that all teachers who will administer the tests are qualified by meeting one of the following criteria
- Have a Bachelor of Arts or Science degree OR
- Be a teacher, certified by a state department of education to teach in a public school or other conventional school (homeschool or local association certification does not qualify) OR
- Be or have been a full-time academic classroom teacher in a conventional school (not a homeschool)
Use the “Forgot your password?” option on the DataManager login page or contact BJU Press Testing & Evaluation for more help.
Achievement: Iowa Assessments, Logramos®, single-subject tests, and Iowa Assessments Survey.
Abilities: Iowa Assessments, Logramos, single-subject tests, and Iowa Assessments Survey, and CogAT.
Reading, math, and science are available as single-subject tests.
The Survey Battery is available for grades 1–8 (Levels 7–14) and has abbreviated subtests for reading, language, and math.
Multiple uses allow a school to repeat tests as many times as desired for a student throughout the course of a year.
- Testing device meeting the technical requirements
- Scratch paper and pencil
- Secure Browser
- Everything else is included.
- Reports will be available within two business days.
General
Sometimes a test publisher makes an agreement with a state department of education or a local school district granting them exclusive use of a particular form of the test for a limited period of time. In cases where the Form E test has an embargo, BJU Press Testing & Evaluation is prohibited from offering that particular form of the test to the area covered by the agreement. Contact us if your school is affected by an embargo.
Yes. Details will be covered during DataManager training.
- Schools have the ability to change test dates for students, so students who miss testing can take the test at a later date.
- If the students are testing outside the testing window, please notify us so that they can be included in the group report.
Unused tests will receive a 100% refund.
A student may be added to a test roster until two business days before your test date.