Easily fulfill all of your assessment needs with Pacific Metrics’ Online Remoting Customizable Assessment (ORCA™) platform. Create, score, and interpret summative, adaptive, and formative assessments with ORCA, a flexible online suite of tools capable of handling all testing requirements at schools, districts, state education departments, and consortiums. Author, develop, deliver, score, customize, and report on assessments in a user-friendly and secure online environment.
ORCA can be integrated or coupled with external, third-party applications, such as data warehouses and instruction resource banks. Much more than a test delivery engine, ORCA delivers the following features and functionalities:
Delivery Platforms
Summative/Large Scale
ORCA™ Secure
ORCA Secure is an online delivery platform for large-scale assessments that require maximum online security. Through the use of a locked Web-browser environment, ORCA Secure prevents test takers from accessing websites outside of the test environment.
ORCA™ Connect
ORCA Connect is a next-generation online delivery platform for large-scale assessments that operates in three modalities: connected, disconnected, and interrupted. It compensates for Internet connectivity issues that can affect standard online assessment delivery systems and alleviates concerns about the possibility of losing test data when Internet connections are lost. ORCA Connect also provides a rich user experience that supports formats ranging from simple text to interactive elements such as Flash.
Formative/Benchmark
ORCA™ Interim
ORCA Interim is an online delivery platform for benchmark or interim assessments that enables users to access a secure environment for test administration. It gives teachers and administrators the ability to analyze student progress throughout the year and identify those areas where additional instruction is needed.
ORCA™ Classroom
ORCA Classroom is an online delivery platform for classroom-based formative assessments with learning tools that can link to external instructional resources. Ideal for teachers at the class level, ORCA Classroom allows teachers to create their own test items or use items from a pre-developed bank.
Content Management
ORCA™ Development
ORCA Development is an item management platform that allows for scalable online assessment content editing and management and is provided through an intuitive Web-based interface. It allows test developers to construct content that is aligned to content standards. ORCA Development provides a versatile, flexible, and secure means of developing, managing, and exporting test content.
Reporting
ORCA™ Reports
ORCA Reports provides teachers and administrators with data on students, classes, schools, districts, or an entire state. The system provides a user-friendly environment that clearly communicates test data and provides the opportunity to analyze the data and respond with instructional strategies.
Data Management
ORCA™ Bank
ORCA Bank is an online repository that supports the storage of test item data and statistics related to their usage. There are two main components of the bank—the database and the Web-based standard user interface. Information is displayed in user-specific pre-set views. The retrieved data views can be stored for further user needs in different formats, including standard formats, such as Excel™.
