ERB CTP Online vs DAC App

The Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP 5) is a battery of assessments designed to provide instructionally useful information about student performance in the key areas of school achievement: listening, reading, vocabulary, writing, and mathematics. In addition, CTP 5 includes for test levels 3 - 10 two tests to measure verbal and quantitative reasoning. The results of these measures can be used to compare more content-specific, curriculum-based measures of performance (scores on the achievement tests) to the more general, derived skills that both result from and enable school achievement (scores on the reasoning tests). This comparison can prove to be highly useful, especially for identifying those students whose skills and achievement scores show marked discrepancies. The online version is available through the CTP Portal for instant scoring and a science test in test levels 3 through 10. We know time is of the essence, so all of our online assessments provide instant feedback to schools and students, enabling real time guidance for instruction and learning.

The Digital Audio Capture (DAC) app is a free app developed by College Board and ETS to use for recording students’ audio responses for the AP Music Theory Exam and AP French, German, Italian, and Spanish Language and Culture Exams. This app has been developed to simplify the recording process for students and proctors, utilizing current technology that is intuitive to most students. It streamlines post-exam tasks for school staff by directly uploading student audio files after recording. School staff will follow the instructions in the 2025-26 AP Exam Instructions book to administer an exam using the DAC app. NOTE: The DAC app is limited for use on school-owned and -controlled iPad tablets (iOS 15.0 and above). Schools must update to the 2026 version of the DAC app; previous versions of the app will not work in 2026.