Get Involved!
Educator participation is vital to Arizona's Achievement Assessment development and validation process. Arizona educators and community stakeholders may serve on committees related to AASA (ELA and Math) and AzSCI (Science).
Community Stakeholders: Parents, friends, neighbors, or relatives who are not working in K-12 schools may be interested in the Stakeholder group. The community stakeholder committee application is located on the Parents and Students page of our website.
Summer Committees 2022
Please see our recruitment flyer for Summer 2022 Committee Events. |
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Returning Spring 2022 Assessment Materials
Test Coordinator's Manuals and Test Administration Directions are non-secure test materials and can be discarded at your site. Used scratch paper and test tickets are considered secure test materials and must be securely destroyed for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire. ACT test administration tickets and scratch paper should have been returned to ACT following testing. |
Achievement Training Management System
The Training Management System (TMS) will close for 2021-2022 on June 1, 2022 and will reopen with trainings for the 2022-2023 school year in Fall 2022. |
Reporting
New Infographic!
A new Reporting infographic has been posted on our website. This new infographic includes all of the Achievement reporting dates in one location for easy access!
Student Data File Layouts
The student data file layout for each Achievement assessment is posted on the Achievement DTC page of our website, under the "Reporting" dropdown for each assessment.
Spring 2022 AASA Reports - Grade 3
- May 14: Electronic score reports, including student data files, will be available in PAN.
- June 15: Paper copies of score reports will be delivered to districts and charters.
Reminder: The Grade 3 Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) test unit was field tested this year and will not appear on score reports, will not be included in the overall ELA score, and will not count for Move On When Reading in Spring 2022. The ORF test unit will be operational in Spring 2023.
Move On When Reading (MOWR)
MOWR will be featured on the AASA Grade 3 score reports. In order to determine whether third grade students met the MOWR requirements for promotion to the fourth grade, please complete the following:
- Download the AASA student data file.
- Filter the "Move On When Reading Requirement" column.
- Any student who has 'N' in this column did not meet the cut score for MOWR.
Spring 2022 AASA Reports - Grades 4-8
- May 25: Electronic score reports, including student data files, will be available in PAN.
- June 15: Paper copies of score reports will be delivered to districts and charters.
Two copies of each individual student report will be sent to districts and charters. One copy is distributed to parents/guardians, and the other copy is placed in the student's secure file, once it is received.
AASA scores are not embargoed; however, it is important to remember that individual student scores can only be shared with those who have an educational need to view them and with parents/guardians.
Parent Portal for AASA
The new parent portal was discussed on the Friday Focus webinar, AASA and AzSCI Reporting, on April 22. LEAs will need to determine a process for making this accessible to parents.
The webinar recording and PowerPoint presentation are posted on the main page of our website: https://www.azed.gov/assessment, under "Friday Focus Webinars 2021-2022." ADE shared how to get the claim codes and a short process for parents/guardians to set up an account. We will also be sharing a letter template soon that you can share with your families.
Hard copies of individual student reports will still be sent to LEAs and should be provided to parents; however, the new parent portal will give access electronically to overall student results earlier than the hard copy is available.
Reminder - it is not required to roll out immediately, or even this year, but the parent portal is a new resource.
District Data File for AASA
Per ยง 15-741.F, districts may request a district data file for AASA. The Spring 2022 district data file will include student and item information and other relevant data points not contained in the standard data file, including item type, theta scores by reporting category, scale score by reporting category, and number of items by reporting category. For a district or charter to receive an AASA district data file, a request must be submitted to ADE by June 10, 2022 by completing the form: https://www.azed.gov/assessment/aasa-district-data-file-spring-2022.
Spring 2022 AzSCI Reports
AzSCI results will be delayed due to this being the first operational administration. Achievement Level Standards/Performance Levels must be set through a summer educator committee and approved by the State Board before reports can be made available.
- August 3: Electronic score reports, including student data files, will be available in PAN.
- August 16: Paper copies of score reports will be delivered to districts and charters.
Spring 2022 ACT Aspire Reports
- May 23: Electronic score reports, including student data files, will be available in PAN.
- June 1: Paper copies of score reports will be delivered to districts and charters.
Spring 2022 ACT Reports
- Students and schools receive hard copies of score reports 5-8 weeks following testing.
- Scores are flowing into ACT's reporting portal at success.act.org as they become available.
- Final school and district data files will be available at success.act.org no later than June 23.
- Please see the ACT Score Report Schedule for additional information.
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Achievement Assessment Corrections Application
Weekly automated emails are now being sent to Achievement District Test Coordinators to inform of any outstanding records in the Corrections Application. To review and update the test record demographics for each assessment in the Corrections Application, you must have the "Achievement District Test Coordinator" role in ADEConnect.
Unmatched AASA, AzSCI, ACT, and/or ACT Aspire test records will begin to appear in the ADEConnect Corrections Application beginning in late May.
- The last day to complete corrections for AASA is June 30, 2022.
- For AzSCI, ACT, and MSAA, the timeline is dependent upon board approval of recommended Performance Levels - more information to come.
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Coming Soon...ACT and ACT Aspire Crosswalk
ADE has been working with ACT to develop a resource for educators and administrators to support the understanding of ACT/ACT Aspire test design and standards and Arizona's high school ELA and Mathematics Standards. We are in the final stages of completing this resource, which will be posted on our website and provided to Achievement District Test Coordinators soon! |
Looking Ahead to Spring 2023
Arizona's measures of academic success in Spring 2023 include administering:
- Arizona's Academic Standards Assessment (AASA) - the statewide achievement test for Arizona students in Grades 3-8. AASA assesses the Arizona English Language Arts Standards and Arizona Mathematics Standards.
- AzSCI - the statewide achievement test for Science, administered in Grades 5, 8, and 11 (Cohort 2024).
- ACT Aspire - statewide high school assessment administered in Grade 9 (Cohort 2026)
- ACT - statewide high school assessment administered in Grade 11 (Cohort 2024)
Tentative Test Windows for Spring 2023
An updated Assessments Overview calendar with tentative test windows has been posted on our website. Tentative Achievement testing windows are also listed below.
- AASA (CBT): April 3-April 28, 2023
- Writing must be completed by April 14, 2023
- AASA (PBT): April 3-April 12, 2023
- Writing must be scheduled for April 3 or 4, 2023
- AzSCI: March 20-April 14, 2023
- ACT Aspire (CBT): April 3-April 28, 2023
- ACT Aspire (PBT): April 3-April 12, 2023
ACT Test Window 1:
- Paper (Standard): March 21, 2023
- Paper (Accommodations): March 21-24 and March 27-31, 2023
- Online (Standard and Accommodations): March 21-23 and March 28-30, 2023
ACT Test Window 2:
- Paper (Standard): April 4, 2023
- Paper (Accommodations): April 4-7 and April 10-14, 2023
- Online (Standard and Accommodations): March 21-23 and March 28-30, 2023
Spring 2023 ACT Test Windows
The Spring 2023 ACT test windows were selected based on the results of a recent survey sent to Achievement District Test Coordinators with high school students.
- New guidance for Spring 2023 ACT: Schools may utilize both published state ACT test windows in order to assess all Cohort 2024 students. This includes regularly scheduled testing and any makeup testing. Districts, charters, and schools are encouraged to administer the ACT during the first test window and to use the second test window, as needed, to complete any makeup testing. Any schools who choose to administer the ACT during only the second test window will not have an additional ACT test window to use for makeup testing. Each ACT test window includes one paper test day and six online test days. For ACT only, schools administering paper tests may also utilize the online test days for makeup testing.
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Accommodations
When conducting Spring IEP meetings, please remember:
As your Special Education staff conduct their IEP meetings this spring and at the beginning of the school year, please remind them to review the Accessibility manuals posted on the Accessibility page of our website. Accommodations considerations should be based on what the student routinely uses during instruction and is allowable on the Statewide assessments. All accommodations should be documented in the student's plan and used routinely in instruction. If an accommodation is not deemed necessary to access content during instruction, the accommodation should not be requested for assessment purposes only.
Beginning next fall, District Test Coordinators may submit accommodations requests for AASA, AzSCI, and ACT Aspire to ADE and for ACT directly to ACT for students with an IEP or 504 plan. Additional information will be required for submission:
- Present Level of Academic and Functional Performance
- Instructional Accommodations
- Testing Accommodations
More details to come in the August edition of The Examiner! |
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