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Before the administration of online objective tests, it is the adviser’s responsibility:
1. To know the online objective test administration window established by the region and make plans to test within that window UNLESS you are in Region 08 or Region 27, which will test the day of their RLC.
2. To schedule any necessary space during school hours to test students. Testing may occur before the start of the regular school day; during the regular school day; or after the end of the regular school day.
3. To test students in large groups or small groups, but all students must be tested during the window announced by the region. No exceptions – unless approved by the region adviser.
4. To maintain test security and the integrity of the PA FBLA testing process for fairness among the chapter’s students AND to make sure advisers at other schools in the region feel that tests were administered fairly, equally, and according to the prescribed guidelines. No adviser should feel that his/her students were disadvantaged because the testing guidelines were not followed at another school. Advisers in your region need to trust each other that the integrity of the testing process was maintained.
5. To make sure students understand they are only permitted to use the built-in calculator in the testing system.
6. To ensure that all electronic devices that can access the web/outside information are turned off during the test: phones, watches, tablets, etc.
7. To contact Bruce Boncal (570.279.6998) for support for issues that may develop during testing that may require time adjustments while the issue is occurring. The adviser will need to provide a recommendation of any times that need to be reset for instances such as network outages, etc. DO NOT wait to make contact.
8. To have your school’s special education director email Bruce Boncal with any accommodation necessary for a student that is identified in his/her IEP. (Example: extended time). Have your special education director do this ASAP with the following information included in her/her email:
a. Student Name
b. Student School
c. Student Competitive Events
d. Accommodations Necessary (as identified in the student’s IEP)
- The director should also copy the FBLA adviser.
2023-2024 Online Objective Testing Rules/Regulations
1. All online objective tests must be administered in school.
- Tests are not permitted to be administered at home (unless the students are part of the PA FBLA Virtual Region 29).
2. All tests must be administered to students under the direct supervision of school staff, which certainly may include the FBLA adviser.
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Unless other regulations have been established by your region, the FBLA adviser may administer the RLC online objective tests. If the adviser needs assistance in the administration of the tests, the adviser may recruit other school staff to assist in the supervision of the test to ensure test administration security. Students ARE NOT PERMITTED to test if there is not school staff to monitor the test-taking process.
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It is the direct responsibility of the adviser to schedule testing sessions for the chapter’s members and to make sure the students are under the direct supervision of school staff. This is not a student’s responsibility, regardless of whether the student is a chapter president or not. Test security and administration is the adviser’s responsibility – no one else, especially students.
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Advisers will be responsible for downloading and print e-testing login codes for students based on the instructions provided by Bruce Boncal. An announcement will be made to the advisers in a region when the link to download the passcodes becomes available. This is not a student’s responsibility to access the passcodes or distribute the passcodes.
3. Students are not permitted to use any outside resources during the test. Students are not permitted to use open notes/open book/open web research.
- Those procedures are not permitted. Period.
4. All objective tests have a built-in 50-minute timer. Once the student signs in, the timer will begin its countdown and cannot be stopped.
- The student is not permitted to walk away from the test once it begins. The student must sit for the entire test. The student should not sign in until they are ready to take the full test.
5. Students are only permitted to use the built-in calculator in the testing system. Students are not permitted to use their personal calculators, school calculators, or any other electronic devices during the administration of the tests.
6. Students are not permitted to communicate with or discuss any test questions, test answers, or collaborate on any test questions/answers with any other FBLA member, other FBLA competitors, other school students, or school staff while taking the test or after taking a test.
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Not one of these test guidelines permits students to take a test together. Each and every student must take a test separately and independently of each other, even if they are a member of a team. If the student is a member of a team, each individual’s score will be averaged together to create a “team” score.
7. Students are permitted to repeat in the same online objective test event UNLESS they have placed in the Top 10 at the National Leadership Conference. Once they have placed in the Top 10 in an event at the NLC, they are no longer permitted to compete in that event again.
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HOWEVER, grade level (9/10) restrictions for all events beginning with “Introduction to . . . .” must be observed. A student in grade 11 or 12 is no longer permitted to repeat an event where they have advanced above the stated grade-level restrictions.
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HOWEVER, subject matter restrictions for an event such as Accounting I must be observed. For example, a student enrolled in Accounting II or Accounting III or has taken the equivalent of more than one year of accounting instruction is no longer permitted to compete in Accounting I.
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Advisers are able to check the Pennsylvania NLC award winners list for the following applicable NLCs at this URL: https://www.pafbla.org/chapter-area/recognition-awards/nlc-award-winners-archive/. The three applicable NLCs are the 2023 NLC in Atlanta, the 2022 NLC in Chicago, AND the 2021 and 2020 Virtual Leadership Conferences.
8. Students should not be taking any online objective test UNLESS they have reviewed the guidelines for their event AND have reviewed the tasks/competencies used by National FBLA test writers to create the test.
- The information clearly helps the student understand the content on the test and how many questions from the task/competency list will be part of the 100-question test. Any student not preparing himself/herself by reviewing that information will possibly be at a disadvantage.
If you have students registered and competing in Business Ethics:
At the region level, there are three parts to the event: (1) each individual or team will be administered a 30-minute, 50 question online objective test; (2) submit a prejudged one-page case study summary via the Blue Panda system; and (3) the individual or team will research an ethical issue and will make a maximum 7-minute oral presentation related to the topic. The topic is integrated into the guidelines. If you and your students have not yet read the guidelines, this is the link to them on the PA FBLA website: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pn3u3fx9ibgvn51876sib/Business-Ethics.pdf?rlkey=givakn4lf8x0f812j407rty6l&dl=0
If you have students registered and competing in Computer Applications, Database Design & Applications, Spreadsheet Applications, and Word Processing:
1. Remember, not all regions offer these four events.
2. If they are offered at your region AND you have students registered in them, at the region level there are two parts to the event: (1) each individual will be administered a 50-minute online objective test; and (2) each individual must be administered the one-hour or two-hour production test.
General Test Login Instructions:
1. To access the testing area, go to the web site listed on the login form. A sample login card looks like the following:
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