Video Training for Secure School Testing

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests (SOLs) require a secure environment and consistent procedures to ensure the integrity of the test results. To this end, Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) provides all instructional staff members with security training using a video produced by the school division. The video includes short scenes of common security violations from past testing events and ensures that all staff members receive standardized training in an engaging and effective way. The video was created in 2015 with contributions from the Center for the Arts at Henrico High School, Henrico Schools’ testing office, the school division’s attorney, and the HCPS departments of Human Resources, and Communications and Public Relations. It was updated in 2016 to include new staffing and additional vignettes. After successfully using the video for nine quarterly training sessions, a new video is being created for the 2018 testing program.